Recent Notable Quote(s) - 8/29/24

AI agents “will have an impact on the world at a scale that no one understands, yet much bigger than the horrific impact we've had by social media”…[For example, if you say to your LLM] “Make me a copy of TikTok. Steal all the users, steal all the music, put my preferences in it, produce this program in the next 30 seconds, release it, and in one hour, if it's not viral, do something different along the same lines.”

Eric Schmidt, Former Google CEO – in an interview with Azeem Azhar (an AI expert and thought leader) on the potential of AI agents to learn and improve themselves including the ability to text-to-action capabilities which will greatly accelerate the utility of these tools but…also, increase the likelihood of unintended consequences…