Key points

My talk is on AI - which is a big topic.

Is it scary, exciting, dangerous, incredible..., to me it is all 4 and more.

AI will change the world

For the better I hope.

AI is that big a topic, with a small chance of human extinction.

Stephen Hawking was not a fan..., Geoffrey Hinton the Godfather of AI reckons there is a 10-20% chance AI could cause human extinction within the next 30 years. And Elon Musk suggests a similar number.

However, Dario Amodei of Anthropic paints a brighter picture with his essay "Machine of Loving Grace"

What is AI

I want to start here, because I do not think it has been explained to the public very well.

And the reason, in my view, is that we don't really understand what happened.

The scale of computation and the information involved is mind boggling,

Recognising that that we Grow ai is the biggest step change in thinking.

The Digital Primordial Soup

"It is a different type of intelligence, but it shows all the hallmarks of intelligence."

1. What do we do when intelligence can be bought off-the-shelf? What do we teach kids?

Planning for a Future with AI

2. Super Intelligence, the future elephant in the room that we don't really talk about.

7 AI tips to think about

1. AI Is Not Magic. But It’s Close Enough to Feel Like It.

2. The Best Use of AI? Amplify What You’re Already Good At.

3. Use AI to Punch Above Your Weight, But Stay Grounded.

4. Ethics and Trust Still Matter, Maybe More Than Ever

5. You Don’t Have to Master AI, But You Do Need to Be AI-Literate

6. Start With a Use Case. Then Build From There.

7. The Future Isn’t Decided Yet. I am sure it’ll be fine.