Google AI Co-Founder Says We’ll All Have AI Assistants Soon

• Mustafa Suleyman, co-founder of Google’s DeepMind, says we’ll have an AI assistant within the next 5 years
• The AI ​​pioneer predicts AI will increase productivity and ‘know your privacy’.
• His thoughts come as more people flock to OpenAI’s ChatGPT to support their work and improve their lives.

The AI ​​revolution has arrived – and one pioneer of the technology says the technology will be accessible to everyone in the coming years.

Mustafa Suleyman, co-founder of DeepMind, Google’s AI division, told CNBC in an interview that everyone will have their own AI-powered personal assistant within the next five years when the technology becomes cheap. more and more popular.

In particular, Suleyman, now the CEO of Inflection AI, the tech startup behind the AI ​​chatbot called Pi, says that everyone will have access to an AI that “knows you,” is “super intelligent.” ” and “understand your personal history”. “

Suleyman, co-author of a book titled “The Coming Wave: The 21st Century’s Biggest Technology, Power, and Dilemma” chronicling the evolution of AI, even predicted that AI would be able to. “preserves everything in its working memory”. In turn, he says the technology could make people’s daily lives a little bit easier.

“It will be able to reason through your day, help you prioritize your time, make you much more inventive and creative,” he says. “It will be a research assistant but will also be a coach and a companion.”

As technology continues to advance, Suleyman believes that AI’s role in people’s lives will go beyond just assisting individuals.

“The way I see it, in five years, everyone will have their own ‘personnel director’, which refers to a senior position at a company that helps executives bring make better business decisions. according to the Harvard Business Review. Some see the chief of staff as the boss’ right-hand man – and the AI ​​version could be.

Like a chief of staff, Suleyman says the AI ​​will “know your personal information deeply, perfectly match your preferences, and help you manage and process all the information you need.”

Suleyman did not immediately respond to Insider’s request for comment prior to publication when contacted through his company Inflection AI.

Suleyman’s thoughts on AI come as users find new ways to integrate synthetic AI technologies like OpenAI’s ChatGPT into their lives.

Since ChatGPT launched last November, a number of people have been using chatbots to help plan family vacations, find apartments, and lose weight.

Others have turned to AI to help do their jobs. Workers across industries have used ChatGPT to develop code, create marketing strategies, and write lesson plans. Some employees even admitted to using chatbots to complete work tasks without notifying their boss.

Suleyman is not the only technology leader to see the revolutionary potential of AI.

Bill Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft, wrote in a seven-page letter that AI is “as fundamental” as the creation of the Internet and predicted that the technology could help the work of healthcare workers and teachers. becomes easier.

Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO, told investors during an earnings call earlier this year that the technology has “huge potential” to “affect almost everything we do.” do” at the iPhone manufacturer.

As for Suleyman, he thinks it’s only a matter of time before everyone has access to the impressive capabilities of AI.

“It will feel like intelligence is a commodity – cheap, widely available, making people smarter and more productive,” he said.