AI expert Jon Hernández: “In the next ten years, science will advance more than in the previous one hundred”

Artificial intelligence has become an integral part of everyday life for millions of people over the past few years. As the technology continues to evolve at a rapid pace, journalist David Jiménez explored its future on his podcast El Director with artificial intelligence expert Jon Hernández. During their conversation, the two discussed the profound impact AI is expected to have over the next decade.

“I have absolutely no doubt that artificial intelligence will cure cancer,” Hernández said. “None at all. And I believe it’s going to happen sooner rather than later.”

The AI expert pointed to Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind, noting that “he says we’ll cure every disease within ten years. I don’t know if we’ll be able to prevent all of them from developing, but at the very least we’ll be able to cure or effectively treat them within a decade. It sounds unbelievable. It almost seems outrageous when you hear it, but we have to understand that we’re living through an era of exponential progress, and that’s something human beings have a hard time grasping.”

An AI expert predicts major scientific breakthroughs over the next decade

Hernández also emphasized the scale of the scientific progress many researchers expect in the years ahead.

“What some of the world’s leading scientists are telling us is that science will make more progress over the next ten years than it did during the previous one hundred. When you think about the breakthroughs we’re already seeing, that doesn’t sound quite as far-fetched. A hundred years ago, we were performing lobotomies on people because we believed they had mental illnesses. Today, we recognize that as an appalling and deeply primitive practice. Now, imagine how we’ll look back ten years from now at the way we currently treat many diseases.”

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