[00:00:02] Speaker A: Did you know that AI is already helping doctors catch cancers earlier?
Students learn faster, and scientists discover drugs in months instead of decades. This isn't the future. It's happening right now. And here's why this matters. For all the risks that we've discussed, AI's potential to improve human life is extraordinary if we we guide it wisely. Cue the intro.
[00:00:35] Speaker B: From the Natural State. This is Public Facing, the podcast with Jo Holman.
[00:00:46] Speaker A: Well, welcome to the final episode of our AI and Innovation series on Public Facing. I'm Joe Holman.
We've covered a lot of ground. What AI is and who controls it, the environmental costs and the safety risks. Today, we're ending on a note of possibility, because the story of AI isn't just about dangers to avoid.
No, it's about opportunities to seize as well.
And here's something worth celebrating.
We're witnessing a technological revolution that could rival electricity, the printing press, and the Internet in its transformative impact.
We'll explore today AI's incredible potential in healthcare and education, examine how it's supercharging scientific discovery, and discuss how we can all engage with this technology through thoughtfully and beneficially.
The future of AI. It isn't determined by the technology itself. It's shaped by the choices that we make about how to use it when it comes to our healing and our learning. Well, AI is already transforming healthcare and education in remarkable ways.
AI systems are achieving expert level performance on medical licensing exams. They're helping doctors with diagnoses and enabling personalized treatment plans.
And with early detection, AI now can spot patterns in medical imaging that human eyes might miss, catching diseases earlier when treatment is most effective, and looking at education as it's reimagined. AI tutors are now providing personalized learning experiences at scale particularly valuable in regions with teacher shortages.
The who, that's the World Health Organization, well, they estimate a global shortfall of 10 million health care workers by 2030.
AI can help bridge that gap.
And the acceleration in research is coming a long way as AI is helping streamline medical research from literature review to clinical note generation, freeing healthcare professionals to focus on patient care.
GPT4 can now pass medical board exams, which is great for AI, but slightly concerning for those medical students who've spent years studying only to compete with software that learned it in months.
Now, AI isn't replacing doctors and teachers.
It's augmenting their capabilities and extending their reach.
See, now that we've covered this healthcare and education area, I want us to take a look at how AI is accelerating discovery.
And I'M talking discovery at warp speed.
See, AI is compressing timelines and opening new frontiers in scientific research.
Now, when it comes to drug discovery, what once took years can now happen in months.
AI analyzes molecular structures, predicts interactions and identifies promising compounds at unprecedented speed.
The alphafolds breakthrough is coming along. Deep minds. AI solved a 50 year biology challenge, and this was predicting protein structures in ways that are accelerating research across medicine, agriculture and environmental science.
Climate and energy are in the mix as well, as AI is helping to optimize renewable energy systems, improve battery technology and model climate scenarios with greater precision.
And there's the productivity boost.
Studies show workers using AI tools completing tasks faster and producing higher quality work.
A rising tide that could lift many boats.
Now, scientists, they used to joke about always being 10 years away from a breakthrough, whatever that might have been.
But now AI with AI, they're, they're sometimes like, well, we solved it Tuesday, you know, the timeline compression is genuinely astonishing.
And AI is becoming an essential partner in pushing the boundaries of human knowledge.
Not replacing curiosity, but supercharging it.
But though, there's another side to this, and it's our shared future.
Because the future of AI depends on choices that we make together as individuals and communities and societies.
Now, with human AI collaboration, the most powerful applications currently are, are combining human judgment with AI capabilities.
It's not human versus machine, no, it's human with machine.
And it's important that we all have equitable access for AI benefits to be widely shared, bringing access to education, tools and opportunities, well, they must be democratized, not concentrated just in wealthy nations.
Are you a lifelong learner? The pace of AI advancement means continuous learning isn't optional.
Understanding AI basics is becoming as essential as digital literacy itself.
And through thoughtful adoption, the question isn't really whether to engage with AI. How, it's how informed, critical and ethical engagement is the path forward.
Now, throughout this series, we've explored the technology, the power dynamics, the environmental costs, and the safety concerns. But here's what I want to leave you with today.
AI is a tool, an extraordinarily powerful one, but still a tool shaped by human hands and human choices.
The future isn't something that happens to us.
It's something that we create together.
And whether AI becomes a force for broad human flourishing or concentrated benefit depending on choices, well, we're all making those choices right now as consumers, as citizens, parents, and even professionals.
So stay curious, stay critical, and stay engaged. And that's going to bring us to today's final word.
In today's final word. AI is already revolutionizing healthcare, education, and scientific discovery in ways that can benefit everyone.
The most powerful applications combine human wisdom with artificial intelligence.
Our collective choices today will determine whether AI's benefit or is it going to be broadly shared or narrowly concentrated.
But ultimately, the future of AI is a story that we're all writing together. And that story's ending. Well, it isn't predetermined, but that's today's final word.
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Thanks for spending time with us today and across all five episodes for Public Facing the podcast, I'm Joe Holman. Until next time, stay informed, stay encouraged, and stay Public Facing. Come back and join us again real soon.
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