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DeepMind cofounder: Generative AI is just a phase. What’s next is interactive AI

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Re: DeepMind cofounder: Generative AI is just a phase. What’s next is interactive AI

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The magazine I worked for at the time was about to publish an article claiming that DeepMind had failed to comply with data protection regulations when accessing records from some 1.6 million patients to set up those collaborations—a claim later backed up by a government investigation. Suleyman couldn’t see why we would publish a story that was hostile to his company’s efforts to improve health care. As long as he co…

Sounds like Sam Altman

Re: DeepMind cofounder: Generative AI is just a phase. What’s next is interactive AI

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The magazine I worked for at the time was about to publish an article claiming that DeepMind had failed to comply with data protection regulations when accessing records from some 1.6 million patients to set up those collaborations—a claim later backed up by a government investigation. Suleyman couldn’t see why we would publish a story that was hostile to his company’s efforts to improve health care. As long as he co…

There is a real argument on the other side, though. We're dealing with technologies that they've when given access to loads of data. Health data is heavily regulated, and rightly so, but that regulation greatly hinders innovation. Hell medical data access problems are bad enough even when we aren't talking about innovation: simple problems in sharing data between different systems/providers leads to bad outcomes all…

Well if they are only going to use the data for good purposes and not for nefarious purposes or for sale, then there is no downside to just writing it into their contracts and privacy policy.

Just add a irrevocable guarantee that they will never sell or transfer to someone who will sell any data and if they do the company will immediately dissolve and become encumbered with a debt of the highest seniority equal to all lifetime company revenues to the people whose medical data they have. The C-suite and Board of Directors must also provide a personal financial guarantee equal to their entire compensation package, and must provide sworn testimony yearly that they are engaging in no business deals which include the sale of private medical data.

Since they do not intend to ever use the data for bad purposes, they have nothing to lose by keeping their word. Literally no downside to them since they were not going to do it anyways and it provides peace of mind to the public, a win-win.

Re: DeepMind cofounder: Generative AI is just a phase. What’s next is interactive AI

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> In a recent conversation I had with him, he told me that generative AI is just a phase. What’s next is interactive AI: bots that can carry out tasks you set for them by calling on other software and other people to get stuff done. Is this somehow an old article? Has the DeepMind cofounder somehow been unaware of ChatGPT, which has already been doing this for months, and which is what exploded the whole notion of AI…

Yeah, that guy simply described ChatGPT with plugins. For e.g., when you use the Wolfram plugin and ask GPT-4 to perform some calculations, it'll call on Wolfram's specialized software to perform or check them -- which is a major improvement. (Wolfram's plugin is the only one that I keep on all the time, it's so good.)

Re: DeepMind cofounder: Generative AI is just a phase. What’s next is interactive AI

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The magazine I worked for at the time was about to publish an article claiming that DeepMind had failed to comply with data protection regulations when accessing records from some 1.6 million patients to set up those collaborations—a claim later backed up by a government investigation. Suleyman couldn’t see why we would publish a story that was hostile to his company’s efforts to improve health care. As long as he co…

There is a real argument on the other side, though. We're dealing with technologies that they've when given access to loads of data. Health data is heavily regulated, and rightly so, but that regulation greatly hinders innovation. Hell medical data access problems are bad enough even when we aren't talking about innovation: simple problems in sharing data between different systems/providers leads to bad outcomes all…

Great, feel free to share your own private health history online for folks to scrape and "innovate" on. I'd like to keep mine private though.

Re: DeepMind cofounder: Generative AI is just a phase. What’s next is interactive AI

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Interactive AI is just faster generative AI. It's not a transition but a trend as with all computing. I do look forward to in about 10 years to be able to sit down in VR with any historical figure for a deep conversation.

> with any historical figure Don't you mean "with a fictional representation of a historical figure"?

Quite often even history books are fictional representations of historical figures.

Re: DeepMind cofounder: Generative AI is just a phase. What’s next is interactive AI

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The magazine I worked for at the time was about to publish an article claiming that DeepMind had failed to comply with data protection regulations when accessing records from some 1.6 million patients to set up those collaborations—a claim later backed up by a government investigation. Suleyman couldn’t see why we would publish a story that was hostile to his company’s efforts to improve health care. As long as he co…

Another case where this quote is upheld: > It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.

Re: DeepMind cofounder: Generative AI is just a phase. What’s next is interactive AI

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post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> with any historical figure Don't you mean "with a fictional representation of a historical figure"?

at some point this distinction will lose its meaning

Not really. Only a tiny slice of the historical person’s memories and persona is recorded. There is a lot more entropy to their representation that died when their brain did. Ergo, whatever “perfect” simulacrum is presented will need to infer the gaps and ultimately be fictional.

Re: DeepMind cofounder: Generative AI is just a phase. What’s next is interactive AI

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post #16
post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> with any historical figure Don't you mean "with a fictional representation of a historical figure"?

at some point this distinction will lose its meaning

Exactly
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