Former Google CEO Spills ALL! (Google AI is Doomed)

Eric Schmidt, the ex-CEO of Google, explains his vision for the future of AI. This interview at Stanford was taken down because he said some negative things about Google and didn't realize it would become public :)

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[matthew_berman]

What do you think he is right about? Wrong about?

[accidentalhippie]

Brother, “The rich get richer and the poor do the best they can” is not a dystopian look at the future; it’s a sobering look at the present.

[kterry]

"Eric Schmidt wants you to believe he is a visionary leader that wants you to embrace AI for a better future, but he's actually a corporate strategist that wants you to support policies and practices that consolidate power within his sphere of influence."

[SuperNovaRider]

This dude is literally the typical CEO.
He seems to know a lot, but when you listen to him, you'll notice that he doesn't *truly* understand what he's talking about.
One such example is his idea strange definition "open source", that isn't open source at all.
Truly competent CEOs are (just like all overly intelligent people) very rare.

[alphajackal]

I feel like I need a shower after listening to this guy.

[arturt]

He fought for Microsoft to be broken up and Google not be broken up. A fighter for open source software while Google CEO. This guy is full of sh....t. Just another brilliant Silicone Valley guy with a value system that's corrupted by greed. Such a sad combination. We have enough of those.

[natwon]

"imagine a non arrogant programmer" spoken exactly like a CEO that takes no criticism on insanely dumb ideas

[kti]

This interview is another reason to not listen to CEOs on YouTube.

[michaelroberts]

I can only surmise that what Schmidt means by everything about him is open source is that he will take whatever he finds useful from open source and use it to create his own proprietary products. He is the type of individual who will ignore the fact that you're supposed to contribute to open source as well.

[defectiveresistor]

So this guy has admitted to ‘didn’t see that coming’ several times. What makes you think he knows what’s coming this time round?

[maxentropy]

His responses were quick, but produced more hallucination than LLMs :)

[Bronco]

God I would love it if google broke up. Put a freakin stop to these monopolies for christ sake

[harrybarrow]

Re Eric Schmidt and working from home:
I did research in AI for 40 years, in academia, non-profit orgs, and industry, in both the UK and the USA.
I wrote a LOT of experimental software, trying out ideas, implementing applications, plus writing academic papers, writing funding applications 😄, etc.
I was even developing neural networks back in the late 1980s.
For these things, I needed to work in UNINTERRUPTED stretches of several hours at a time.
I was juggling a lot of things in my head and interruptions destroyed a lot of that.
(Imagine in an AI, with a million token context that periodically gets decimated by irrelevant tasks interrupting.)
For me, getting away from the office phone, the drop-in visits by colleagues, the arbitrary HR presentations, …, was very valuable.
Management did not understand, and wanted faces in offices.
Looks like Schmidt does not fully understand either.

[ericpmoss]

"Google decided it was more important to go home early." As in, a normal work week rather than a sweat shop that makes two people wealthy and the rest dead.

[marcusk]

Youtube should have a timeline of Likes. So you can like and dislike certain parts of the conversation.

[SeaWaves]

If you ask AI to make you a tik tok you get either one of two outcomes:
- It generates a perfect tiktok. Then the software becomes basically free and people compete on other aspects that AI can't solve
- It generates trash every time that is not as good as what humans can build

[dcjz]

The guy who took “no” out of “do no evil”

[nsbdnow]

Around 24 minutes. It is insane he is against "work-life balance" and then is a "liberal" arguing about... feeding war the the Military-Industrial Complex. This interview is totally dystopian.

[nsbdnow]

At 33 minutes "The country is going to have to learn critical thinking." He is completely unaware of "The Powell Memo" written in 1971 by future Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell warning business about the danger an educated populace capable of critical thinking posed to them. The irony can't get more rich in this disturbing interview!

[jsc]

DOn't do evil? This guy is truly evil.