Alphabet's Chairman: LLM’s Aren't the Endgame

Turing Award winner John Hennessy argues that even a few percent more productivity a year adds up in an economy the size of America's, and explains why the return could take time to show up.John Hennessy shared the 2017 Turing Award, often called the Nobel Prize of computing, for work that shaped the modern microprocessor. He served as president of Stanford University for 16 years and is chairman of Alphabet, Google's parent company. In this conversation, he explains what AI has to deliver to justify the money pouring into it, why reasoning is the next frontier, and how he thinks the technology should be regulated.In his words: "It's a new Industrial Revolution. It's one that potentially is much larger size than earlier ones. But it's going to play out over time."