Stability AI CEO says AI will prove more disruptive than the pandemic

Stability AI CEO says AI will prove more disruptive than the pandemic

Stability AI founder and CEO Emad Mostaque said advances in AI have helped us to figure out how to “make humans scale.” At our Disruptive Tech Symposium in London, he said major changes are coming to entertainment, education, medicine and the IT industry itself.

(L to R): Goldman Sachs' Eric Sheridan & Emad Mostaque of Stability AI.

• 📸 Media: Mostaque explained that AI generates images that are almost photorealistic today and will be even better tomorrow. “You'll see the entire cost structure of media creation, video game creation and others change dramatically.”

• 📚 Education: AI has great potential to scale one-on-one instruction, Mostaque said. “As of this year, you can have your own personalized tutor that adapts to you,” he said. With AI-powered instruction comes the promise of more effectively addressing learning challenges, he said, predicting that dyslexia, for example, will be “solved” in the next few years.

• 💊 Medicine: Mostaque cited Google's recent success in optimizing its large language model to answer medical questions. “We finally have a single file that's as good as a human doctor,” he said.

The tech industry has been talking about so-called expert systems for decades, but their arrival has been sudden and their disruptive effects are accelerating fast. “This is a much bigger disruption than the pandemic," he said. "I'm not sure that any of us can cope with the speed. You know, frankly it's terrifying.”