- Mustafa Suleiman, co-founder of Google’s DeepMind, says we will have AI assistants in five years
- AI promoters predict that AI will increase productivity and ‘get to know your personal information intimately.’
- Their thoughts come to OpenAI’s ChatGPT to help them in their jobs and improve their lives.
The AI revolution is here – and one of the technology’s pioneers says it will be accessible to all in the coming years.
Mustafa Suleiman, co-founder of Google’s AI division DeepMind, told CNBC during an interview that everyone will have their own AI-powered personal assistant within the next five years as the technology becomes cheaper and more widespread.
In particular, Suleman, now CEO of Inflection AI, the tech startup behind an AI chatbot called Pi, said everyone will have access to an AI that “knows you,” is “super smart” and “understands your personal history.”
Suleman, who co-authored the book “The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-First Century’s Greatest Dilemma,” which documents the development of AI, also predicts that AI will be able to “store things in its working memory.” In turn, he says technology can help make people’s daily lives a little easier.
“It will be able to reason about your day, help you prioritize your time, help you invent, be more creative,” he said. “He will be a research assistant, but he will also be a coach and colleague.”
As technology evolves, Suleman believes the role of AI in people’s lives will go beyond just personal assistance.
“The way I see it is that in 5 years, everyone is going to have their own ‘chief of staff,'” he said, referring to a high-level position in a company whose purpose is to help executives make better business decisions. According to Harvard Business Review. Some consider the chief of staff to be the boss’s right-hand man – and that could be the AI version.
Like the chief of staff, Suleiman said AI will “get to know your personal information intimately, be fully aligned with your interests, and help you manage and process all the information you need.”
Suleman did not immediately respond to Insider’s request for comment ahead of publication when his company was contacted by Inflection AI.
Suleman’s thoughts on AI come as users look for new ways to integrate generative AI technologies like OpenAI’s ChatGPT into their lives.
Since ChatGPT came out last November, some have used the chatbot to plan family vacations, find apartments, and lose weight.
Others have turned to AI to help them do their jobs. Workers in all industries have used ChatGPT to develop code, create marketing strategies, and create lesson plans. Some employees have admitted to using chatbots to complete work tasks without telling their bosses.
Suleman isn’t the only tech leader who sees the revolutionary potential in AI.
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates wrote in a seven-page letter that AI is as “fundamental” as the creation of the Internet and predicted that the technology could help simplify the jobs of healthcare workers and teachers.
Apple CEO Tim Cook told investors on an earnings call earlier this year that the technology has “enormous potential” to “impact everything we do” at the iPhone maker.
As for Suleman, he says it’s only a matter of time before everyone has access to AI’s impressive capabilities.
“It would be like having intelligence as a commodity – cheap, available everywhere, making everyone smarter and more productive,” he said.
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