What is an AI anyway? | Mustafa Suleyman

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🗓️ 22 April 2024

⏱️ 22 minutes

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When it comes to artificial intelligence, what are we actually creating? Even those closest to its development are struggling to describe exactly where things are headed, says Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman, one of the primary architects of the AI models many of us use today. He offers an honest and compelling new vision for the future of AI, proposing an unignorable metaphor — a new digital species — to focus attention on this extraordinary moment. (Followed by a Q&A with head of TED Chris Anderson)

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective.
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0:04.0	You're listening to Ted Talks Daily.
0:10.0	I'm your host, Elise Hugh.
0:13.0	Today, a compelling new way to think about AI
0:15.6	from one of the primary architects of the AI tools
0:18.5	were using.
0:19.5	In his talk from TED 2024, Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleiman says calling AI just tools
0:27.0	doesn't adequately capture what's happening between humans and machines.
0:31.0	He lays out a metaphor for all of us to better understand it, coming up after a short break.
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0:56.3	I want to tell you what I see coming. I've been lucky enough to be working on AI
1:01.6	for almost 15 years now.
1:04.4	Back when I started, to describe it as fringe
1:07.6	would be an understatement.
1:09.5	Researchers would say, no, no, we're only working on machine learning,
1:13.1	because working on AI was seen as way too out there.
1:16.2	In 2010, just the very mention of the phrase,
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