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In brief Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt argues that while people fixate on AI’s language skills, they’re missing its rapidly advancing planning and strategy abilities that could reshape society entirely. Schmidt claims AI’s economic impact could be huge—with agents handling a lot of the business processes—but humans will still have roles as the technology evolves. Beyond technical aspects, Schmidt frames AI development as a high-stakes competition between the United States and China that could potentially trigger global conflict within 5 years. Eric Schmidt doesn’t believe the AI hype. In fact, he thinks AI isn’t hyped enough. Speaking in a recent TED talk, the former Google CEO argued that while most people fixate on AI’s language skills, they’re completely missing its rapidly advancing planning and strategy abilities—capabilities that could reshape society entirely. “Most of you think of AI—I’ll just use the general term—as ChatGPT,” Schmidt said during his talk. “This was two years ago. Since then, the gains in what is called reinforcement learning, which is what AlphaGo helped invent, allow us to do planning.” Schmidt’s view comes at a time when public fascination with AI remains basically squarely focused on text generation. But he insists that AI’s trajectory extends far beyond writing clever emails or summarizing documents, helping increase our productivity on many levels.. “You’re seeing the arrival, the shift from language to language. Then you had language to sequence, which is how biology is done. Now you’re doing essentially planning and strategy,” Schmidt explained. “The eventual state of this is the computers running all business processes.” The economic impact could be huge—Schmidt claims up to 30% per day when AI agents are globally adopted—but he pinky promised we mere mortals will still have some use. “Humans are unchanged in the midst of this incredible discovery. Do you really think…

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