Alessandro Di Stefano

Peter Thiel on the Origins of Modern AI: It was always US vs China Thiel describes the two canonical books that framed the US vs China AI debate in the 2010s: "There was the Bostrom book, Superintelligence, 2014, where AI was gonna be this superhuman, super-duper intelligent thing." "And then the anti-Bostrom book was the Kai-Fu Lee, 2018, AI Superpowers." "You can think of it as the CCP rebuttal to Bostrom, where basically AI was going to be surveillance tech, face recognition, and China was going to win because they had no qualms about applying this technology." But modern AI became something different: "If we now think about what actually happened, let's say, with the LLMs and and ChatGPT, it was really neither of those two." "And it was this in-between thing, which was actually what people would've defined AI as for the previous 60 or 70 years, which is passing the Turing test." "Which is, you know, this somewhat fuzzy line. It's a computer that can pretend to be a human. Or that can fool you into thinking it's a human." "ChatGPT passed it, and that seems very significant." Recorded September 9th, 2024 at the All-In Summit. Join us in 2025: allin.com/summit Sept 7-9 in Los Angeles