[The Future of AI] What’s next for NLP with Kevin Scott, CTO of Microsoft & Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI

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“This is a really powerful conceptual shift from how we have been using computing technology for the past many decades.” - Kevin Scott, CTO, Microsoft

“I’m excited to see 2022 become the year where NLP goes from being this incredibly promising glimpse of the future to a technology which we depend on for lots of things.” - Sam Altman, CEO, OpenAI

Learn about current advances and limitations of natural language processing from those working at the edge of the field today. Bryan Walsh, The editor of Future Perfect at Vox.com interviews Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, which brought the world the GPT-3 Model and Kevin Scott, the Chief Technology Officer of Microsoft.

1:30 - What are Sam & Kevin expecting in NLP from 2022?

4:00 - In which areas will AI tooling become an integral part of workflows? How are people using it today for search, copy generation, automated A/B testing, classification and more.

7:00 - Why coding was a great place to start with NLP and which areas it will go to next including graphic design & historical research.

9:30 - How do we go beyond text towards multi-modal models?

12:00 - How much specialisation is needed?

16:00 - Democratising AI technology and why OpenAI partnered with Microsoft.

18:50 - Preventing technology from being misused.

23:00 - What will change as we move closer to Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)?

26:00 - How do we get stakeholders across the board to participate in the conversation?

29:00 - What will it be like to interact with these models in a decade's time?

“In 2032 It will feel not that you are talking to your smartest friend- but rather that you are talking to thousands of smart friends that are domain experts, working at superhuman speed.” - Sam Altman

“People want some version of the Star Trek computer.” - Sam Altman