Hello and welcome to tonights virtual Commonwealth Club program. My name is read and im a Technology Reporter with the Washington Post and im pleased to be the moderator for tonights program, the historical importance of the transformation brought on by Artificial Intelligence and virtual environment. As we have seen over the last three months with the covid19 pandemic and with social media with the killing of george floyd in minneapolis and the aftermath , technology and online environments that every aspects of our life here tonight i am pleased it to be joined by two Silicon Valley pioneers to discuss these issues. William davidow and Michael Malone, their new book, the autonomous revolution reclaiming the future of the machines is out now and delves deeply into the revolution we are living through regarding a i and virtual environment and it can be purchased everywhere including bn. Com. A bit about tonight speakers, bill david, the cofounder of the earlier in his career he worked
Hello and welcome to tonight virtual commonwealth program. My name is reed im a Technology Reporter with the Washington Post for employees to be the moderator for tonights program on a critical topic historical importance of the transformation brought on by artificial intelligent and virtual environments. As we have seen so acutely over the past three months with the covid19 pandemic in the social media with the killing of george floyd in minneapolis and its aftermath technology in online environments guide every aspect of our lives. Tonight i am pleased to be joined by two Silicon Valley pioneers to discuss these issues further. William davidow and Michael Malone, their new book the atoll must revolution was out now it delves deeply into the revolution we are living through regarding ai, the virtual environment. It can be purchased everywhere including bn. Com. A little bit about our speakers, William Davidow he earlier career worked at intel was credited to being one of the pioneers
Very trying weeks and even they have, but what been doing is working. You go back a month, month and a half, we heard report after report saying it was just a stter of time until Florida Hospital system was completely overwhelmed with covid19 patients. There was an article in march saidthe miami herald that this week in april florida could 465,000 people hospitalized throughout the state of florida. The reality slightly more than 2000. Those predictions have been false. Our work is succeeding. We have flattened the curve. In fact, not only did the Hospital System not get overwhelmed, since the pandemic started, available hospital beds have increased in the state of florida, not decreased. About 1500, 400 beds available toward the end of march. We now have 22 thousand beds available. We also had dramatically increased icu bed availability. That was what flattening the curve was all about. Because if the Health Care System gets overwhelmed, that is obviously bad for covid19 patients and
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Thing and having better data. You need identifiers. A conversation led by digital and data sf to stay with the project the entire way through. A lot happening. That is my presentation. I am happy to take questions. I appreciate your time. Thank you very much, ms. White house. Commissioner walker, please. Thank you so much for this. As i have watched i will make a joke i can see the new building out my window. You know, we are all anticipating realizing it is coming on so quick, we have hiccups in our own Data Management project we have been doing, and it was really helpful because it makes me feel more comfortable all of these processes that we have been engaged in towards that end are being used in a way that makes sense. Part of our moving from together will facilitate a better coordinated effort which is what we have all wanted to do with our permit tracking project. This is heartening. It is going to be beautiful. It is already beautiful. I love the way that there is a courtyard an