The Freethink Interview

We’re interviewing a new generation of builders, leaders and thinkers. People with bold and provocative ideas about the future of humanity. Join us for thought-provoking conversations with some of the world’s most interesting and ambitious technologists.

Why the current moment is bigger than the invention of electricity
"This is a monumental world historic shift that we're going through, and most people do not understand how big it is and also how fast it's coming very, very soon."
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"This is a monumental world historic shift that we're going through, and most people do not understand how big it is and also how fast it's coming very, very soon."
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"There are things that Notebook does that are genuinely 10 to 100 times faster."
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Emmett Shear: If we want AI to be on our side, it needs to see its part of the greater whole.
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"AI today is like the Internet, say 1995. We're at the HTML when it was just the blink tag."
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"What if we could find coral that were more resistant to warming waters and transplant them to another place, like selective breeding is done?"
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