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With Grok? Learning how to interact with AI is not unlike being someone who is really good at asking questions. You're incredibly good at asking questions, and prompting AI is very, very similar. You can't just randomly ask a bunch of questions, and so asking an AI to be an assistant to you requires some expertise and artistry, and how to prompt it.
And so, if I were a student today, irrespective of whether it's for math or for science or chemistry or biology, or doesn't matter what field of science I'm going to go into or what profession, I'm going to ask myself, how can I use AI to do my job better? If I want to be a lawyer, how can I use AI to be a better lawyer? If I want to be a better doctor, how can I use AI to be a better doctor? If I want to be a chemist, how do I use AI to be a better chemist? If I want to be a biologist, how do I use AI to be a better biologist? That question should be persistent across everybody.
And just as my generation grew up as the first generation that has to ask ourselves, how can we use computers to do our jobs better? Yeah, the generation before us had no computers; my generation was the first generation that had to ask the question, how do I use computers to do my job better? Remember, I came into the industry before Windows 95, right? 1984, there were no computers in offices. And after that, shortly after that, computers started to emerge, and so we had to ask ourselves how do we use computers to do our jobs better? The next generation doesn't have to ask that question, but it has to ask the obvious next question, how can I use AI to do my job better? That is the start and finish, I think, for everybody. It's a really exciting and scary, and therefore worthwhile question, I think, for everyone. I think it's going to be incredibly fun.
AI is obviously a word that people are just learning now, but it's just, you know, it's made your computer so much more accessible. It is easier to prompt ChatGPT to ask it anything you like than to go do the research yourself. And so we've lowered a barrier of understanding; we've lowered a barrier of knowledge; we've lowered a barrier of intelligence; and everybody really had to just go try it. You know, the thing that's really, really crazy is if I put a computer in front of somebody and they've never used a computer, there is no chance they're going to learn that computer in a day. There's just no chance. Somebody really has to show it to you, and yet with ChatGPT, if you don't know how to use it, all you have to do is type in "I don't know how to use ChatGPT, tell me," and it would come back and give you some examples, and so that's the amazing thing. You know, the amazing thing about intelligence is it'll help you along the way and make you, uh, superhuman, you know, along the way.
All right, I have one more question if you have a second. This is not something that I planned to ask you, but on the way here, I'm a little bit afraid of planes, which is not my most reasonable quality, and the flight here was a little bit bumpy, mhm, very bumpy, and I'm sitting there and it's moving, and I'm thinking about what they're going to say at my funeral, and after—She asked good questions, that's what the tombstone's going to say—I hope so! Yeah. And after I loved my husband and my friends and my family, the thing that I hoped that they would talk about was optimism. I hope that they would recognize what I'm trying to do here. And I'm very curious for you, you've you've been doing this a long time, it feels like there's so much that you've described in this vision ahead, what would the theme be that you would want people to say about what you're trying to do?
Very simply, they made an extraordinary impact. I think that we're fortunate because of some core beliefs a long time ago and sticking with those core beliefs and building upon them, we found ourselves today being one of the most, one of the many most important and consequential technology companies in the world and potentially ever. And so we take that responsibility very seriously. We work hard to make sure that the capabilities that we've created are available to large companies as well as individual researchers and developers, across every field of science, no matter profitable or not, big or small, famous or otherwise. And it's because of this understanding of the consequential work that we're doing and the potential impact it has on so many people that we want to make this capability as pervasively as possible, and I do think that when we look back in a few years, and I do hope that what the next generation realized is as they, well first of all they're going to know us because of all the, you know, gaming technology we create. I do think that we'll look back and the whole field of digital biology and life sciences has been transformed. Our whole understanding of material sciences has completely been revolutionized. That robots are helping us do dangerous and mundane things all over the place. That if we wanted to drive, we can drive, but otherwise, you know, take a nap or enjoy your car like it's a home theater of yours, you know, read from work to home, and at that point you're hoping that you live far away and so you could be in a car for longer. And you look back and you realize that there's this company almost at the epicenter of all of that and happens to be the company that you grew up playing games with. I hope for that to be what the next generation learns.
Thank you so much for your time. I enjoyed it, thank you! I'm glad!