The Coming Wave: DeepMind's Mustafa Suleyman on Technology, Power, & Future of AI | Technovation 800

Mustafa Suleyman, Co-Founder of DeepMind and Inflection AI, discusses his career journey, the future of artificial intelligence, and his latest book; The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the 21st Century's Greatest Dilemma. Mustafa describes his entrepreneurial background as a pioneer of the AI and Deep Learning space from studying philosophy at Oxford to his eventual founding of DeepMind and subsequently Inflection AI. He recounts the inception of groundbreaking AI concepts, Google's acquisition of DeepMind, and the importance of ethics in AI. In his book, Mustafa proposes the idea of a modern Turing Test to mitigate the spread of misinformation, AI's paradoxical impact on productivity and stability, and the vision of a fully digital ‘Chief of Staff’ called Pi.
The Coming Wave was released on September 5th and can be found here:
www.the-coming-wave.com/
0:00:00 Introduction
0:01:24 Mustafa's Roots as an Entrepreneur
0:03:00 Why Mustafa Chose to Pursue Philosophy at Oxford
0:05:27 Mustafa's Involvement With The Muslim Youth Helpline
0:06:43 Working as a Policy Officer on Human Rights for the Mayor of London
0:08:46 Reos Partners and Mustafa's Inspiration to Create Impact
0:11:17 Mustafa's Beginnings In Technology
0:14:39 Working with Co-Founders Demis Hassabis and Shane Legg
0:16:22 Introduction of the Idea to Prominent Silicon Valley Venture Capitalists
0:18:46 Why Mustafa Chose to Pursue and Bet on Deep Learning
0:20:44 Atari DQN and Catching Google Co-Founder Larry Page's Attention
0:22:44 Future Acquisition by Google and Development of AlphaGo
0:27:01 Establishment of an Ethics Board and Baking Ethics into AI
0:30:49 Intersection of Technology and Power for the Coming Wave of Artificial Intelligence
0:34:03 The Modern Turing Test: Mitigating the Spread of Misinformation
0:37:02 The Paradox of AI Causing More Productivity But Less Stability
0:39:52 Pi and Progress Ahead Towards a Full Digital Chief of Staff
0:44:06 Mustafa's Team Helping to Drive Inflection AI's Journey
0:47:01 Microsoft's Investment in and Partnership with Inflection AI
0:48:25 Introduction of Pi and How to Meet It
0:49:03 Outro
An audio-only version of this interview is available as episode 800 of Metis Strategy’s podcast, #Technovation with Peter High. Learn more at bit.ly/Technovation-800.
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[@4realthistym]

Spent time with pi today and I can see the value. It’s incredible how human it sounds.

[@funfacts4you-nf7ky]

I don’t know why most todays intellectual think only in one dimension … great thing about him he is open minded and his strength is his way of looking at systems in a basic intuitive way…

[@suzanneananicz5866]

Modest down to earth guy

[@BrianMosleyUK]

Insightful inevitable. Very savvy entrepreneur.

[@cacogenicist]

Pi is pretty neat, and definitely has a distinctive, friendly conversational style. Although sometimes is strikes me as too Eliza-bot-ish.
I do look forward to it becoming more than just a toy. These advances Mustafa is talking about are in many cases already available in the cutting-edge systems.

[@angloland4539]

❤

[@silberlinie]

I tried to speak to Pi in German.
But it always answers in English.
But it claims to have answered in German.

[@rogerdavies8586]

It just told me German is one of the languages it speaks. Would making a different selection of voice make a difference?

[@silberlinie]

Its about the text dialogue@@rogerdavies8586

[@silberlinie]

No, making a different selection of voice makes
no difference@@rogerdavies8586

[@WebStixx0000]

It's hallucinating hard! XD

[@Tucanae515]

He's a businessman. Just like Bill Gates was a businessmen. They're probably both good businessmen, so I'm happy for them, but gushing?

[@silberlinie]

So, let me tell you this, Mustafa.
If you want to become something with your PI,
you have to put in a lot of effort.
I just used it and compared all inputs with the Chatgpt
running in parallel.
The disappointing result is: PI is (at the moment)
hopelessly bad.
It wants to teach me. It doesn't know anything
about itself.
It's just annoying.
I honor your plans presented here. The product
today is a class worse in terms of conversation
than OpenAI's.

[@mikecalikusu]

Los of blah blah... much less substance that expected 😮