Why AI Can Make Everything We Care About Better

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Hey there! Welcome to today's edition, packed with all the hottest news from the world of AI.

• 📖 First up, we've got an awesome piece by Marc Andreessen explaining why AI has the power to improve just about everything we care about. It's a must-read!

• 🖥️ On the product front, check out Sivi AI. It's a design tool that speeds things up by a factor of 10 - pretty neat, huh? We also have Maverick, which uses AI to create personalised videos for online stores. It's like having a personal shopping assistant!

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• 📺 For our media fans, we've got a striking Fragmented Architecture Series and Brad Gerstner sharing why he thinks AI tech will be even bigger than the internet. You've got to hear this!

So grab a cup of coffee, sit back, and let's dive into the fascinating world of AI together. Enjoy!

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Why AI Can Make Everything We Care About Better

Yesterday, I read one of the best articles on AI that I've come across, thanks to Marc Andreessen. Marc created the first web browser (Mozilla) in the 90s and more recently founded A16Z, which is one of the top VC companies in the world. In my opinion, he is one of the greatest technology thinkers in history.

The premise of his article is that AI has the potential to improve everything that we care about. He states that the most consistently validated conclusion of social science, across many decades and thousands of studies, is that human intelligence leads to better outcomes across a broad range of life domains.

Human intelligence has been the driving force behind the creation of the world we live in today. Without it, we would still be living in mud huts and struggling to survive through subsistence farming. Instead, we have used our intelligence to raise our standard of living by over 10,000 times in the last 4,000 years.

What AI offers us is the opportunity to profoundly augment human intelligence to make all of these outcomes of intelligence – and many others, from the creation of new medicines to ways to solve climate change to technologies to reach the stars – much, much better from here.

He points to the fact that AI augmentation of human intelligence has already started – “AI is already around us in the form of computer control systems of many kinds, is now rapidly escalating with AI Large Language Models like ChatGPT, and will accelerate very quickly from here – if we let it.”

Some of Andeessen’s predictions for our new era of AI:

• Every child will have an AI tutor that is infinitely patient, infinitely compassionate, infinitely knowledgeable, infinitely helpful. The AI tutor will be by each child’s side every step of their development, helping them maximise their potential with the machine version of infinite love.

• Every person will have an AI assistant/coach/mentor/trainer/advisor/therapist that is infinitely patient, infinitely compassionate, infinitely knowledgeable, and infinitely helpful. The AI assistant will be present through all of life’s opportunities and challenges, maximising every person’s outcomes.

• Every scientist will have an AI assistant/collaborator/partner that will greatly expand their scope of scientific research and achievement. Every artist, every engineer, every businessperson, every doctor, every caregiver will have the same in their worlds.

• Every leader of people – CEO, government official, nonprofit president, athletic coach, teacher – will have the same. The magnification effects of better decisions by leaders across the people they lead are enormous, so this intelligence augmentation may be the most important of all.

• Productivity growth throughout the economy will accelerate dramatically, driving economic growth, creation of new industries, creation of new jobs, and wage growth, and resulting in a new era of heightened material prosperity across the planet.

• Scientific breakthroughs and new technologies and medicines will dramatically expand, as AI helps us further decode the laws of nature and harvest them for our benefit.

• The creative arts will enter a golden age, as AI-augmented artists, musicians, writers, and filmmakers gain the ability to realise their visions far faster and at greater scale than ever before.

• I even think AI is going to improve warfare, when it has to happen, by reducing wartime death rates dramatically. Every war is characterised by terrible decisions made under intense pressure and with sharply limited information by very limited human leaders. Now, military commanders and political leaders will have AI advisors that will help them make much better strategic and tactical decisions, minimising risk, error, and unnecessary bloodshed.

• In short, anything that people do with their natural intelligence today can be done much better with AI, and we will be able to take on new challenges that have been impossible to tackle without AI, from curing all diseases to achieving interstellar travel.

• And this isn’t just about intelligence! Perhaps the most underestimated quality of AI is how humanising it can be. AI art gives people who otherwise lack technical skills the freedom to create and share their artistic ideas. Talking to an empathetic AI friend really does improve their ability to handle adversity. And AI medical chatbots are already more empathetic than their human counterparts. Rather than making the world harsher and more mechanistic, infinitely patient and sympathetic AI will make the world warmer and nicer.

Andreessen believes the stakes here are high. The opportunities are profound. AI is quite possibly the most important – and best – thing our civilisation has ever created, certainly on par with electricity and microchips, and probably beyond those.

The development and proliferation of AI – far from a risk that we should fear – is a moral obligation that we have to ourselves, to our children, and to our future.

We should be living in a much better world with AI, and now we can. Although it is still early, I tend to agree with this sentiment and hope that it proves to be true.

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