00:00One of the boards out there had promised emojis saying AI for India means all-inclusive.
00:05We're having this conversation against a backdrop of people increasingly becoming skeptical about AI.
00:13They talk about how the technology is going to take away their jobs.
00:17They talk about how, you know, tech executives will get rich while the rest of us pay the price for
00:24it.
00:24I mean, really, Demis, when you take a look at the benefits of potential of AI for the common good,
00:30what exactly are we looking at?
00:33I mean, how will the people at large benefit?
00:36I've worked on AI my whole career, my whole life, because I believe it could be the ultimate tool to
00:41accelerate scientific discovery and medicine
00:44and also help with some of the other grand challenges facing society today, like climate change and energy.
00:50All of these things I think AI can help and be applied to.
00:53On the more individual scale, and maybe also for India specifically, I think that this incredible technology, powerful technology,
01:00is sort of available to almost everyone around the world, maybe only with a lag time of a couple of
01:05months behind the absolute frontier.
01:07So what I imagine if I was a young person today working, thinking about working in technology, maybe building a
01:13business,
01:13is I think there's incredible untapped potential here.
01:16And using these technologies, you can almost sort of become superpowered.
01:20You can kind of do 10x of what I think an individual engineer could have done in the past.
01:25And so I think there's incredible new business opportunities and new types of jobs that will be even more high
01:32earning and more valuable and more fulfilling
01:34than perhaps some of the jobs that will be disrupted by AI.
01:37How do you position for that?
01:38No, I would also just add a few more things.
01:41I think part of the potential for everybody to benefit is enormous.
01:45But I think there's some work we all have to do.
01:48So, for example, if I think about questions of access, that's so important.
01:52How do we make sure everybody actually has access to the technology to be able to use it, capitalize it?
01:57Other questions of access, which are particularly important in countries like India, are access through different languages, for example.
02:05I mean, India has many, many different languages.
02:07And I think focusing, for example, on making sure that people can actually access the technology in their language, in
02:13their culture.
02:14And that's one of the reasons we're spending so much time on the Indic languages.
02:17I mean, we have to have a project right now with Project Vani where we're trying to work across something
02:23like over 700 districts
02:25and all the dialects that are used in those districts to see can we build in more Indic languages.
02:31So if you think about that question of access and linguistic access, that's one of the ways you democratize the
02:36possibility of people being able to take advantage of this technology.
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