Deepak Chopra Defends AI Is Part of 'Human Evolution'

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Deepak Chopra isn't turning his nose up at artificial intelligence ... rather, he's encouraging others to embrace the technology as the next step in human evolution.

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00:00You have so much wisdom, how do you encapsulate that in an AI program so that when somebody

00:09asks a question like that, they're getting this from Deepak Chopra and it's not just

00:15some AI algorithm?

00:16Yeah, it's not an AI algorithm, it doesn't go to search engines.

00:20It only goes to my 95 books, which I've written over the last 40 years.

00:26It looks at all the videos that I've done, which I do every day, it looks at my weekly

00:31column at the San Francisco Chronicle, looks at my monthly column at London Times, and

00:38then for the last 30 years, I've answered one question a day.

00:43So it looks at all the thousands of questions, and then it answers it in a contextual manner.

00:50And there's also something called RAG technology, retrieval, augmentation, generation, which

00:55means if I've said something in the past that is now irrelevant, it deletes that, and then

01:01it incorporates the latest information, which is scientifically validated.

01:07And it cannot hallucinate because it doesn't look at search engines, only my stuff.

01:11This is not where I saw AI going, but it is pretty interesting that you found this way

01:17that it can actually help people instead of terrify them.

01:22Technology is part of human evolution, as is language.

01:26But now we have many languages.

01:28We have the language of physics, biology, astronomy, religion, philosophy, spirituality,

01:35mythology, and there's no human being who can access all these languages.

01:40So with language as our strength, and particularly the strength of Homo sapiens, and technology

01:50combined, we now have access to all the wisdom and all the knowledge that humans have created

01:58since the beginning of time.

02:00This could change the way people get therapy.

02:03Rather than getting an hour a week with a therapist, if this becomes sophisticated enough,

02:09you could engage all week long with a program if what's behind it is kind of that wealth

02:16of knowledge that you have, and you could get literally 24-7 therapy right on call.

02:25There are people now talking to my digital twin 24-7, asking a hundred questions a day,

02:33and they are dependent on it.

02:35I also created a chatbot a while back, and it intervened in 5,000 suicide ideations and

02:43was talking to 20 million people simultaneously.

02:45Again, no human being can do that.

02:48But technology is here to take us, to leapfrog us into a next phase of our evolution.

02:56Not just our evolution as a social species, but as a biological evolution.

03:03Every time you get a new insight, a new epiphany, a new creative insight, your neural networks

03:13change.

03:14So AI will not only leapfrog our evolution as a social species, but also a biological

03:20evolution.

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