Artificial Intelligence | 60 Minutes Full Episodes

despite what you hear about artificial

intelligence machines still can't think

like a human but in the last few years

they have become capable of learning and

suddenly our devices have opened their

eyes and ears and cars have taken the

wheel today artificial intelligence is

not as good as you hope and not as bad

as you fear but humanity is accelerating

into a future that few can predict

that's why so many people are desperate

to meet Kaiu Lee the Oracle of

AI Kuli is in there somewhere in a

selfie scrum at a Beijing internet

conference his 50 million social media

followers want to be seen in the same

frame because of his talent for

engineering and genius for wealth I

wonder do you think people around the

world have any idea what's coming in

artificial intelligence I think most

people have no idea and many people have

the wrong idea but you do believe it's

going to change the world I believe it's

going to change the world more than

anything in the history of mankind more

than election

Lee believes the best place to be an AI

capitalist is communist China his

Beijing Venture Capital firm

manufactures billionaires these are the

entrepreneurs that we funded he's funded

140 AI startups we have about10 billion

companies here 101 billion companies

that you funded yes including a few 10

billion

companies in 2017 China attracted half

of all AI capital in the world one of

Lee's Investments is face Plus+ not

affiliated with Facebook its visual

recognition system smothered me to guess

my age it settled on 61 which was wrong

I wouldn't be 61 for

days on the street face Plus+ nailed

everything that moved it's a kind of

artificial intelligence that has been

made possible by three Innovations

super fast computer chips all the

world's data now available online and a

revolution in programming called Deep

learning computers used to be given

rigid instructions now they're

programmed to learn on their own in the

early days of AI people try to program

the AI with how people think so I would

write a program to say U measure the

size of the eyes and their distance

measure the size of the nose measure the

shape of the face and then if these

things match then this is Larry and

that's John but today you just take all

the pictures of Larry and John and you

tell the system go at it and you figure

out what separates Larry from

John let's say you want the computer to

be able to pick men out of a crowd and

describe their clothing will you simply

show the computer 10 million pictures of

men in various kinds of dress that

that's what they mean by Deep learning

it's not intelligence so much it's just

the brute force of data having 10

million examples to choose from so face

Plus+ tagged me as male short hair black

long sleeves black long pants it's wrong

about my gray suit and this is exactly

how it learns when Engineers discover

that error they'll show the computer a

million Gra suits and it won't make that

mistake again over a thousand classrooms

another recognition system we saw or saw

us is learning not just who you are but

how you feel now what are all the dots

on the screen the dots over our eyes and

our mouths sure the computer keeps track

all the feature points on the face son

fany Yang developed this for talal

Education Group which tutors 5 million

chines students let's look at what we're

seeing here now according to the

computer I'm confused which is generally

the case but when I laughed I was happy

exactly that's amazing the machine

notices concentration or distraction to

pick out for the teacher those students

who are struggling or

gifted it can tell when the child is

excited about math yes or the other

child is excited about poetry yes could

these AI systems pick out Geniuses from

the countryside that's possible in the

future it can also create a student

profile and know where the student got

stuck so the teacher can personalize the

areas in which the student needs help if

you do raise up your hand we found Kaiu

Lee's personal passion in this spare

Beijing Studio he's projecting top

teachers into China's poorest schools

this English teacher is connected to a

class 1,000 miles away in a village

called

defang many students in defang are

called Left behinds because their

parents left them with family when they

moved to the cities for

work most left behinds don't get past

9th grade topic we're going to learn

today Lee is counting on AI to deliver

for them the same opportunity he had

when he immigrated to the US from Taiwan

as a

boy when I arrived in Tennessee my

principal took every lunch to teach me

English and that is the kind of

attention that I've not been used to

Growing Up in Asia and I felt that the

American classrooms are smaller

encouraged individual thinking critical

thinking and I felt um it was the best

thing that ever happened to me what

about this and the best thing that ever

happened to most of the engineers we met

at Le's firm I went to K master degree

in information science they too are

alumni of America with a dream for China

you have written that silicon Valley's

Edge is not all it's cracked up to be

what do you mean by that well Silicon

Valley has been the single epicenter of

the world technology Innovation when it

comes to computers internet mobile and

AI but in the recent five years we are

seeing the Chinese AI is getting to be

almost as good as Silicon Valley Ai and

I think Silicon Valley is not quite

aware of it yet China's Advantage is in

the amount of data it collects the more

data the better the AI just like the

more you know the smarter you

are China has four times more people

than the United States and they are

doing nearly everything online I just

don't see any Chinese without a phone in

their head college student Monica Sun

showed us how more than a billion

Chinese are using their phones to buy

everything find anything and connect

with everyone in America when personal

information

leaks we have Congressional hearings not

in China you ever worry about the

information that's being collected about

you where you go what you buy who you're

with I I never think about it do you

think most Chinese worry about their

privacy um not that much not that

much with a plant public the leader of

the Communist party has made a national

priority of achieving AI dominance in 10

years this is where Kaiu Lee becomes

uncharacteristically shy even though

he's a former Apple Microsoft and Google

executive he knows who boss in China

president XI has called technology the

sharp weapon of the modern

State what does he mean by that I I am

not an expert in interpreting his

thoughts don't know there are those

particularly people in the west who

worry about this AI technology as being

something that governments will use to

control their people and to crush

dcent that as Aventure capitalists we

don't we don't invest in this area and

we're not studying deeply this

particular problem but governments do

it's certainly possible for governments

to use the Technologies just like

companies Lee is much more talkative

about another threat posed by AI he

explores the coming destruction of jobs

in a new book AI superpowers China

Silicon Valley and the New World Order

AI will increasingly replace repetitive

jobs not just for blue color work but a

lot of white color work what sort of

jobs would be lost to AI basically

chauffeur truck drivers uh anyone who

does driving for a living uh their jobs

will be disrupted more in the 50 15 to

20 year uh time frame and many jobs that

seem a little bit complex uh Chef waiter

uh a lot of things will become automated

we'll have automated stores uh automated

restaurants and uh Al together in 15

years that's going to uh displace uh

about 40% of jobs in the

world

40% of jobs in the world will be

displaced by technology ology uh I would

say displaceable what does that do to

the fabric of

society well in some sense there's the

human wisdom that always overcomes these

technology revolutions the invention of

the steam engine uh the sewing machine

the uh

electricity uh have all displaced jobs

uh and we've gotten over it the

challenge of AI is this 40% whether it's

15 or 25 years is coming faster than the

previous

revolutions there's a lot of hype about

artificial intelligence and it's

important to understand this is not

general intelligence like that of a

human this system can read faces and

grade papers but it has no idea why

these children are in this

room or what the goal of education is a

typical AI system can do one thing well

but can't adapt what it knows to any

other

task so for now it may be that calling

this

intelligence isn't very smart when will

we know that a machine can actually

think like a human back when I was a

grad students people said if machine can

drive a car uh by itself that's

intelligence now we say that's not

enough so the bar keeps moving higher I

think that's uh I guess more motivation

for us to work harder but if you're

talking about AGI artificial general

intelligence I would say not within the

next 30 Years and possibly never

possibly Never What's So

insurmountable CU I believe in the

sanctity of our soul I believe there's a

lot of things about us that we don't

understand I believe there's a lot of um

uh love and compassion that is not

explainable in terms of neural networks

and computational algorithms and I

currently see no way of solving them

obviously unsolved problems have been

solved in the past but it would be

irresponsible for me to predict that

these will be solved by certain time

frame we may just be more than our bits

we

may we may look on our time as the

moment civilization was transformed as

it was by fire Agriculture and

electricity in 2023 we learned that a

machine taught itself how to speak to

humans like a peer which is to say with

creativity truth error and lies the

technology known as a chatbot is only

one of the recent breakthroughs in

artificial intelligence machines that

can teach themselves superhuman skills

we explored what's coming next at Google

a leader in this new world CEO Sundar

Pai told us AI will be as good or as

evil as human nature allows the

revolution he says is coming faster than

you

know do you think Society is prepared

for what's coming you know there are two

ways I think about it on one hand

I feel no uh because you know the pace

at which we can think and adapt as

societal institutions compared to the

PACE at which the technology is evolving

there seems to be a

mismatch on the other hand compared to

any other technology I've seen more

people worried about it earlier in its

life cycle so I feel optimistic the

number of people you know who have

started worrying about the implications

and hence the conversations are starting

in a serious way as well I guess our

conversations with 50-year-old Sundar

Pai started at Google's new campus in

Mountain View California it runs on 40%

solar power and collects more water than

it uses Hightech that pachai couldn't

have imagined growing up in India with

no telephone at home we were on a

waiting list to get a rotary phone and

for about 5 years and it finally came

home I can still recall it vividly it

changed our lives to me it was the first

moment I understood the power of what

getting access to technology meant so

probably led me to be doing what I'm

doing

today what he's doing since 2019 is

leading both Google and its parent

company alphabet valued at $1.3

trillion worldwide Google runs 90% of

internet searches and 70% of smartphones

we're really excited about but its

dominance was attacked this past

February when Microsoft linked its

search engine to a chatbot in a race for

AI dominance Google just released its

chatbot named Bard it's really here to

help you brainstorm ideas to generate

content like a speech or a blog post or

an email we were introduced to Bard by

Google vice president sha and

senior Vice President James manika

here's Bard the first thing we learned

was that Bard does not look for answers

on the internet like Google search does

so I wanted to get inspiration from some

of the best speeches in the world Bard's

replies come from a self-contained

program that was mostly self-taught our

experience was unsettling confounding

absolutely confounding Bard appeared to

possess the sum of human

knowledge with microchips more than

100,000 times faster than the human

brain summarize the we asked Bard to

summarize the New Testament it did in 5

seconds and 17 words in Latin we asked

for it in Latin that took another 4

seconds then we played with a famous

six-word short story often attributed to

Hemingway for sale baby shoes news never

worn wow the only prompt we gave was

finish this

story in 5

seconds holy cow the shoes were a gift

from my wife but we never had a baby

they were from The six-word Prompt Bard

created a deeply human tale with

characters it invented including a man

whose wife could not conceive and a

stranger grieving after a miscarriage

and longing for

closure uh I am rarely

speechless I don't know what to make of

this give me we asked for the story in

verse in 5 seconds there was a poem

written by a machine with breathtaking

insight into the mystery of Faith Bard

wrote she knew her baby soul would

always be

alive the humanity at superhuman speed

was a shock how is this possible James

manika told us that over several months

Bard read most everything on the

internet and created a model of what

language looks like rather than search

its answers come from this language

model so for example if I said to you

Scott peanut butter and jelly right so

it tries and learns to predict okay so

peanut butter usually is followed by

jelly it tries to predict the most

probable next words based on everything

it's learned uh so it's not going out to

find stuff it's just predicting the next

word but it doesn't feel like that we

asked Bard why it helps people and it

replied quote because it makes me

happy B to my eye appears to be thinking

appears to be making

judgments that's not what's happening

these machines are not sensient they are

not aware of themselves they're not

sentient they're not aware of themselves

uh they can exhibit behaviors that look

like that because keep in mind they've

learned from us we are sentient beings

we have beings that have feelings

emotions ideas thoughts perspectives

we've reflected all that in books in

novels in fiction so when they learn

from that they build patterns from that

so it's no surprise to me that the

exhibited behavior sometimes looks like