computers, they would say we can build math tables and which is what they were built for, world war ii rockets. and they first became commercially exciting when ibm adopted it for business finance and accounting. we re going to go through the same learning experience now. it s easy to say we can apply intelligent machines to the world s data problem. we re awash in data and we can t have people looking at all the data whether it s medical data security data. there s a ton and ton of data and we need machines to sort through them and look at them as a human would and say i see the patterns i see what s going on this is how we should act upon it. that certainly will happen. where it goes beyond that is really hard to say. i have my dreams about it but we re going to have to see how it plays out. jeff hawkins, pleasure to have you on. it was a pleasure fareed. thank you. up next the u.s. federal code of regulations is over 170,000 pages long.
the same thing is going to be intelligent machines. they re not some oracle or godlike machine that becomes instantly intelligent. so the real question we want to ask ourselves, is there some existential threat, that s the term i think elon musk used, a threat to the existence of humanity that something we re doing today that we couldn t undo. and the answer is no. not even close. maybe 50 or 100 years from now we might have another problem or maybe 30 years we might think about it. but are we doing anything today that s dangerous that we should step back and go whoa, we shouldn t do that? i can t see it at all. it s like we re building machines that are just like computers and they learn and it s not like human-like at all. what s the big benefit to the world? this is almost an impossible question to answer. if you asked in the 1940s you asked the people building computers what were going to be the benefit of building computers, they would say we can build math tables and do these
everybody always says, it s a cliche, but only nixon could go to china. only obama can stand up to the union and save our schools. and that s beginning to happen. what i really am encouraged by, and the these two guys know it as well as anyone, this is one issue in which people are beginning to talk to each other in more civil tones. if you look at the discussion in the last 24 hours on this set last night, meet the press, and we ll see it in the next 48 hours or so, there are lots of divergent interests here. but at the same time they re willing to come to a common platform and try to work it out because it touches every life in america. when i was going to school 100 years ago, it was one size fits all. you go in and do your math tables and memorize history and then get out of there and there would be a job. that s not the case anymore. i spent part of this week with bill gates, this past week. he s spending half a billion dollars of the gates foundation