Brave New Words - Bill Gates & Sal Khan

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Khan Academy

May 16, 2024

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Bill Gates and Sal Khan explore AI's impact on education and work, discussing how it will enhance rather than replace human skills. They highlight the value of creativity and empathy while predicting changes like shorter workweeks and new tax policies. The conversation covers AI's role in personalized learning and assessment, weighing opportunities (productivity gains, customized education) against challenges (cheating concerns, inequality) while remaining optimistic about AI's potential in healthcare, education, and eldercare.

“The deeper skillset, whether it's medical consultation, scientific thinking, or customer support, will have more value even in a world where productivity is enhanced by AI”

Bill Gates

Bill Gates

Microsoft co-founder who revolutionized personal computing, became world's richest person, and transformed global philanthropy through the Gates Foundation.

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“If you're not on board now, you're falling behind and you'll never get on the offensive again.”

Eric Schmidt

“Ride the exponential wave every day. If you’re not using AI, you will fall behind.”

Sequoia Capital

“You are in a run-like-hell business right now. The rails are in place. The opportunity is wide open.”

Reid Hoffman

"When you're encountering a new technology, if you approach it as something taking away your power, you're throwing yourself under the wheels. But if you see how you can use it to extend what you can do, it becomes much better.”

Alex Rampell

"If AI handles the routine work, humans can focus on building relationships and being creative, which computers can't replicate.”

Eric Schmidt

“This is the most powerful technology that will be invented in our lifetimes. It's as important as electricity and heating and air conditioning... because it's intelligence that's available to everyone”

Sundar Pichai

"I'm very confident there'll be a lot of progress in 2025... I think the models are definitely going to get better at reasoning, completing a sequence of actions more reliably."

Mustafa Suleyman

“Memory is the key thing coming soon… it will remember your preferences and give advice based on your tastes and past interactions.”

Y Combinator

"The vertical equivalence will be 10 times as large as the SaaS company that they are disrupting... They spend way more on employees than they do on software.”

Andrew Ng

"With generative AI, applications that used to take six months to build can now be developed in just 10 days.”

Dr. Kai-Fu Lee

"There are two kinds of companies at the end of this decade: Companies that are fully utilizing AI and everyone else is out of business"

Dario Amodei

"If you extrapolate the curves that we've had so far... it does make you think that we'll get there by 2026 or 2027.”

Sam Altman

"If we could just get truly abundant intelligence and energy, what we’d be able to make happen in the world is extraordinary."

Bill Gates

"AI has the potential to finally deliver on the promise of tech in education, creating personal tutors for every student."

Matt Cynamon

“If you’re relying on AI to produce the final product, you’ll be disappointed. But if you use it to help get there, it’s extremely powerful.”

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