Sana AI Summit 2024
May 15, Stockholm
On May 15 2024, we gathered some of the world’s most pioneering leaders, thinkers, and researchers to reflect on the new era of artificial intelligence.
Introduction
Lauren Crichton
Commercial Director, Sana
On the state of AI
Benedict Evans
Independent analyst
“We don't even know all the problems worth solving. They're still taking shape. But to find them and solve them, it's going to take courage and vision, persistent innovation and dedication. It's going to take our individual and collective integrity."
Lauren Crichton, Commercial Director Sana
Geoffrey’s thesis
Geoffrey Hinton
Computer scientist and cognitive psychologist
“I think the idea that GPT-4 is just regurgitating what it’s learned already is completely wrong. It’s going to be even more creative than people, I think.”
Geoffrey Hinton, Computer scientist and cognitive psychologist
On building Sana AI
Joel Hellermark
Founder and CEO, Sana
Daphne’s thesis
Daphne Koller
CEO and founder, insitro
On deep learning for cancer diagnosis
Regina Barzilay
Professor of AI and Health, MIT
“We hope that, as medicine continues, we will be able to learn and optimize the screening cycles for individual patients instead of giving everybody the same frequency.”
Regina Barzilay, Professor of AI and Health MIT
On the future of science and knowledge
Max Jaderberg
Chief AI Officer, Isomorphic Labs
Tuomas Sandholm
Computer scientist and entrepreneur
On the UI for AGI
Gustav Söderström
Co-President, CPO & CTO, Spotify
Carl Pei
CEO, Nothing
Josh Miller
CEO, The Browser Company
“If we just confine our science to having short human-understandable theories, we're going to miss out on a lot of opportunity.”
Tuomas Sandholm, Professor and entrepreneur
Max’s thesis
Max Tegmark
Physicist and AI researcher, MIT
“I think it’s rather up to us conscious living beings to create our own meaning. I don’t think the universe gives meaning to us. I think we give meaning to our universe.”
Max Tegmark, Physicist and AI researcher, MIT
On alternative intelligence
Jeanette Winterson
Author
Close
Lauren Crichton
Commercial Director, Sana
“AI has no skin color, no gender, no interest in faith wars, no hatred of the stranger. It's not incentivized by the levers of power and wealth that have dictated human experience. AI might not align with our values. And that might not be such a bad thing.”
Jeanette Winterson, Bestselling author and Professor of New Writing
Key speakers
2024