Brett Taylor interview: what is the definition of AGI
Here are the contents translated into English:
This text describes an interview with Brett discussing education, artificial intelligence (AI), technological development and change, as well as a new direction he is leading at Sierra company.
Key points mentioned include:
- Personalized education: through methods such as audio podcasts, flashcards, and visual historical timelines, making education adapt to children’s learning styles and habits rather than the other way around.
- AI democratizing education: allowing more people to access what was previously inaccessible, like private tutoring available only to wealthy families.
- Importance of change: Brett believes that learning how to learn and think will become even more important as we no longer focus on memorizing knowledge but rather understanding the mechanisms behind our world.
- The danger of tool fixation: he warns against becoming too focused on tools, like a software engineer who prioritizes typing speed in an IDE, which will inevitably lead to being left behind in the future.
- AI enabling “interdisciplinary mastery”: AI will enable people to combine knowledge from multiple fields and take single-field expertise and apply it across different domains.
- Three types of AI Agents:
- First type: personal agents that assist with daily tasks, email filtering, etc., but building these will be the most challenging due to issues like generalization and privacy.
- Second type: company-internal role-specific agents, such as coding or analysis agents, which many companies are already developing and have significant commercial value potential.
- Third type: customer-facing agents, like an insurance company’s website that can view stock quotes, manage teams, etc., shifting from a limited interaction model defined by the enterprise to one where clients can express any demand using natural language.
Finally, he mentions his new direction at Sierra company helping enterprises build conversational AI capable of all these things.
Translation
这段文本描述的是对Brett进行的一次访谈，讨论了教育、人工智能（AI）、技术发展和改变，以及在Sierra公司领导的新兴方向。
提到的几个重要点包括：
- 教育变得个性化：通过音频播客、提示卡片和可视化历史关键时刻等方式，让教育能够适应孩子们的学习方式和习惯，而不再是让所有孩子都去适应一种学习方法。
- AI使教育普惠化：让更多人能够获取到过去难以获得的东西，如富人为自己的孩子提供的各种家教。
- 改变的重要性：Brett认为，学习如何学习和思考将变得更加重要，因为我们不再是为了记忆知识，而是为了理解创造我们的世界的机制。
- 工具固化的危害：他警告人们避免在工具上固化，就像对软件工程师来说，如果你在意的是自己在IDE中打字有多快，那么未来几年注定会落后，因为这不是软件工程的核心差异化。
- AI带来的“深度通才”：他认为，AI将使人们能够将更多领域结合起来，将单个领域的智力深度转移到在多个不同领域间的协调智力，这有别于传统的单一学科突破。
- AI Agents三类：
- 第一类是个人agents，帮助你完成日常任务、筛选电子邮件等，但构建这一类agent将是最难的，因为它需要泛化和隐私问题的解决。
- 第二类是在公司内部填补特定角色的agents，如编码agents或分析师agents，这些Agent已经有许多公司在做，范围更窄，商业价值潜力大。
- 第三类是面向公司客户的agents，如一个保险公司的网站，可以查看股票报价、管理团队等，这将从企业定义有限互动选项的模式转变为客户可以用自然语言表达任何需求的模式。
最后，他提到了他在Sierra公司领导的新兴方向，帮助企业构建能够做到所有这一切的会话式AI。
Reference:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEz-NXTJv3g