Washington Post Live’s Post

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What do you think are the greatest opportunities for AI, but also the greatest challenges and how our companies thinking about those and also how should policymakers think about it? We are, we are living in an age of wonders right now. The potential for AI is just unimaginably fast. We tend to think of AI as a chat bot because that's the way it came up. That's a small percentage of the promise. As we have these scientific breakthroughs, we are seeing remarkable innovations in material science. 10s of thousands of useful new materials being discovered in healthcare or alpha fold project folded every protein in the human body. 200 million proteins which each would have taken a biology PhD student a full thesis 3 or 4 years to fold one protein. We did 200 million of them in the summer and open sourced them. It's like taking every man, woman and child in the country training to be a biology PhD researcher and having them do nothing but fold proteins for three or four years. So now we're about to see the first AI generated drugs go into clinical trials before the end of the year. And that's just one slice. You imagine progress in nuclear fusion, in quantum combinatorial innovation where AI makes quantum faster and quantum speeds up AI. This is a really remarkable time we're living in. So the opportunities are vast and the importance of continuing to lead are equally important.