EP 36 - Marc Andreessen and Steven Sinofsky Talk Sentience, Ethics, Job Impacts, and the Future of AI

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Podcast Notes Key Takeaways The recent breakthroughs with ChatGPT break the world into two groups: those who can understand exponential growth, and those that sit around and deny itAI hallucinations are evidence that we have apparently solved the problem of computer creativityThe real breakthroughs are going to happen when entrepreneurs discard all current assumptions and purely start from scratch“This may be the single biggest financial explosion in the history of the industry.” – Marc Andreessen “It may only be the case that new companies can actually do anything interesting in AI.” – Marc Andreessen  Much of the current concern over AI is not about the Skynet doomsday scenario, but about how AI will abide by approved woke-speechAI is replacing jobs in the opposite order in which people expected it to We are in the midst of another high-octane Luddism fallacy where people panic and believe new technology is going to replace all the jobsPeople always underestimate the degree to which new technology creates new jobsVirtually every white-collar job that exists today is the result of technological advancement that occurred in the last 300 years or even 50 years “Our biggest problem for the next decade is not going to be AI having too much effect, it’s going to be AI having too little effect.” – Marc Andreessen We must accept that the most amazing technological breakthrough of all time – replicating human consciousness – is just going to happen accidentallyQuestioning AI sentience reveals more about human values and how humans perceive the world than they reveal about the technical components of a machineAI science fiction is largely based on the assumption that humans and machines will inevitably go to war with one another, but people are experiencing the exact opposite reaction when interacting with ChatGPT  

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In this episode, the gang gets back together! Marc Andreessen and Steven Sinofsky are back to talk about all things AI. We cover the rise of ChatGPT, Bing's AI powered chat Sydney, AI ethics, sentience, whether AI will take over jobs, the economic impact, AI startups vs tech incumbents, and whether it is time for AI to become sentient. This was an incredibly fun episode!

Marc Andreessen is an American entrepreneur, venture capital investor, and software engineer. He is the co-author of Mosaic, the first widely used web browser; co-founder of Netscape; and co-founder and general partner of Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz.

Steven Jay Sinofsky is a former president of the Windows Division at Microsoft. He was responsible for the development and marketing of Windows, Internet Explorer, and online services such as Outlook.com and SkyDrive.