Generative AI, the future of Facebook & Quantum Computing with Sebastian Hallensleben
Today’s podcast with Sebastian Hallensleben includes topics on the impact of generative AI with tools like deep fake, the future of platforms like Facebook and the creation of new platforms for constructive discourse, quantum computing, using a piece of the sun for energy on earth, and lastly, how to fund foundational research.
Sebastian Hellensleben is the head of digitalization and AI at VDE, and works on concepts and infrastructures for trust in the digital space.
Impact of generative AI - tools such as deep fakes - in the digital space. We haven’t yet understood it properly.
Generative AI tools:
- being able to create profiles of people that don’t exist
- creating media for people that don’t exist
- virtual influencers that can have followers
The contest of quantity between product promoters is who has more bots. How can we trust ratings?
Democratic discourse: if we lose the digital space as a platform for discourse to bots, it’ll have a major impact on the ability of democratic systems to function.
How to regulate this?
Regulation is never going to turn platforms like Facebook into a forum for constructive discourse. And that’s something we really have to understand.
So we have to look elsewhere and we need to create new kinds of platforms where constructive discourse can happen.
You need to create different incentive mechanisms. Like to convince another person of your position, or to gather reputation if you're able to build consensus between groups of 20 or 30 other users.
Where are platforms like Facebook heading?
It is frightening that the owners of these platforms either haven't asked the question or there is no answer, to how these platforms can evolve in a more sustainable way.
What technology are you excited about now?
Quantum computing - because it’ll be more disruptive - it is certainly a very fascinating technology. It's hard to say are we 5 years or 50 away from breakthroughs. It shares that with much older technology like nuclear fusion. But the mere notion of being able to have a piece of the sun on earth and use it to create energy.
Who should be funding all this?
Foundational research will never be funded by commercial investment. Because rewards are 20, 30 or 40 years away and it might not be clear what these rewards are. It's important governments support foundational research. It would be wise to have budgets to do research and just see where it takes us.
How do we get countries that spend less than 3% of their GDP on research and innovation to spend more?
We need to link foundational research to certain megatrends: aging population, finite natural recourses, the need to keep this planet liveable, and also from a perspective of how to keep people living together peacefully. Building resilient democracies for stable economies.
American versus European approach to spurring innovation.
Fresh thinking on what the European Union actually is
Triggered by Brexit and Putin’s war and Trump, but nevertheless triggered. What is the goal and if the facets of that goal are still remnant? And a fresh perspective on the internal structures. Is it an economic union? Yes, to what
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