{"id":188412,"date":"2024-04-30T18:22:31","date_gmt":"2024-04-30T23:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/microsoft-executive-says-ai-is-a-new-kind-of-digital-species"},"modified":"2024-04-30T18:22:31","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T23:22:31","slug":"microsoft-executive-says-ai-is-a-new-kind-of-digital-species","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/microsoft-executive-says-ai-is-a-new-kind-of-digital-species","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Executive Says AI Is a \u201cNew Kind of Digital Species\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/microsoft-executive-says-ai-is-a-new-kind-of-digital-species2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>They\u2019ll be kind, supportive, empathetic.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>DeepMind cofounder and Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman took the stage at TED2024 last week to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/mustafa_suleyman_what_is_an_ai_anyway\/transcript\" class=\"\">lay out his vision<\/a> for an AI-driven future. And according to the AI boss, if you really want to grasp how impactful AI might be to the human species, it might be useful to think of AI as another \u201cspecies\u201d entirely.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think AI should best be understood as something like a new digital species,\u201d Suleyman \u2014 who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2022\/01\/28\/mustafa-suleyman-deepmind-co-founder-quits-google-ai-role-to-be-vc.html\" class=\"\">left the Google-owned DeepMind lab in 2022<\/a> \u2014 told the crowd.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow, don\u2019t take this too literally,\u201d he admonished, \u201cbut I predict that we\u2019ll come to see them as digital companions, new partners in the journeys of all our lives.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They\u2019ll be kind, supportive, empathetic. DeepMind cofounder and Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman took the stage at TED2024 last week to lay out his vision for an AI-driven future. And according to the AI boss, if you really want to grasp how impactful AI might be to the human species, it might be useful to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":705,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/705"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}