Singularity TechDay last week in Barcelona. Pau García-Milà goes on stage and asks the audience for a free time activity. Motorcycles?, not that pollute. Let’s leave it to bikes. Can you make a business plan for a start-up company in ten minutes with artificial intelligence that includes website and logo design, selection of possible names and graphic aspect? Can. Ten minutes and period. The entrepreneur Pau García-Milà, Princess of Girona Award, is the CEO of Founderz and a very active disseminator on social networks about how to use technology. Now about the advantages of AI in business.

Why would I recommend a tool like ChatGPT to people from a practical point of view?

For everything except for legal issues and medical issues. For home recipes, to help us find work and make a new resume, to generate ideas to play new games with our children. Let’s not ask him for medical advice, for that is why there are doctors who have studied for many years, and neither legal advice, because surely he does not know the laws that well, although the confidence with which he speaks might make us think that he does know. The red lines are health issues and legal issues. For everything else, let’s try it. Let’s try it.

What surprises is the application of AI in companies giving you?

We started to apply it a little before ChatGPT, with GPT and Playground, the system that existed before, which was a little more technical, and we apply it in our day-to-day life as a company. Founderz is a future-themed adult school and with ChatGPT it has been made much easier. All our team, which is about 30 people, have a ChatGTP Plus account and we use it in our day to day. You have to break some myths. IBM said it would lay off I don’t know how many. In the world of small businesses, there are not enough hands, no matter how much you aim for artificial intelligence. It has not occurred to us to reduce the team to be replaced by the machine, but instead we have seen that all the people who are part of the team, when we have artificial intelligence tools, we can go further . So I think what AI tools do to us is give us superpowers to do more. It is not to replace ourselves by machines.

Is there more debate about AI?

There are many debates that surprise me that at the political level have not been linked. For example, we talked a long time ago about the four-day shift, about reducing working hours, because this is the way. Let’s take a group of 20 people. Can you do the work of five days in four? And as much as they can. What happens is that we are in a time when it is scary to support it very strongly because what happens if it has a negative impact, which obviously it can have? The consequence is that we look at it from the sidelines. It is not about doing less, but using tools that allow us to do the same or more in fewer hours. Therefore, we enjoy our private life more and at the same time contribute more. I think that this is the path and that it is beginning, but that it will not be a fad, it is not something that has come to disappear in a few months. I think it is here to stay.

What is the main interest of companies? Are there fears or who wants to use AI to end jobs?

From the education part in which we are, we find many companies that tell us that they want to train many people in these tools. It is the way. There are also companies that come to ask if they will be replaced by machines. This is absurd. It is true that people who know how to use AI will progressively not replace it, but will get jobs against humans who do not know how to use it. So I think it’s an additive, not a replacement. Companies, in general, and the sector does not matter, they look at it as saying: “How can I apply this to improve?”. Obviously, there are companies much more susceptible to these technologies. Journalism is one of them. It can help a lot. In the entire legal field, from lawyers to the judicial part, they can do more. The potential in medicine is amazing. In the end, we are seeing the tip of the iceberg, but now we can all use it. In the end, at Christmas meals in 2023 the main theme will be ChatGPT and this has not happened in technology since the internet.

Don’t you see a lack of concern for AI governance?

I think we should not be afraid to say that this must be regulated for everyone, even for the companies that create it. Even for those who lead all this, in the end they will be the main beneficiaries of the regulation. They have created a trend that today many smaller companies are copying, which can be more dangerous, because perhaps they do not have the ethical limits with which the large ones are constantly monitored. A regulation that affects all companies will benefit those that are most concerned about things like ethics and data protection. It is important that it is regulated but done from a collective rights perspective. There are sectors that will be more threatened. Education will have to change a lot. Any 15-year-old boy is using ChatGPT to do exams and assignments, which he shouldn’t. These tools can help a lot for the common good. Therefore, the solution is not to prohibit them, but to regulate the uses that can be put to them and make sure that there is enough education for adults and minors to understand their potential. The danger is that we see this as a danger. The good is greater.

Are public authorities too slow in regulating AI?

Obviously it is impossible to regulate a thing before it arrives. In the end, it is normal for it to be regulated later, but in the end we are talking about a technology. It would be absurd to do it for everything. This obviously has an important social impact, but this is not the jungle and we are not killing each other with machetes. If it is illegal to make a bomb, if I do it I am committing a crime. Therefore, we are already protected. What happens is that we have never had so much information at our disposal on how to make a bomb. And luckily, ChatGPT will never explain this to us, but there are others that do. Obviously we have to protect ourselves from misuse, but I think we are quite protected.

Are you concerned about an evolution of AI, such as consciousness or the attack on humans?

I think this concern is legitimate but it does not have a technological basis. Today, with the technology of the great language models, it is impossible for this to happen. Someone who does not understand will say that nothing is impossible. You cannot self-replicate, become aware, that does not want to die or is afraid. Actually, all this is a very big Excel with a lot of vitamins. It can talk to us and generate human-like data, but it doesn’t have a technological basis to say that it can. With other technologies, perhaps it can be done. But we’re not here yet.

How about Singularity TechDay?

It is super interesting when an event appears that mixes technology and business, because you have very good business establishments in Barcelona, ​​you have very good technology ones, the Mobile World Congress is the benchmark, obviously, but they talk about specific technology and the business part passes because technology is made and meetings are made. What is explained is technological. This approach is unusual and the people who meet achieve a symbiosis between people who are interested in a subject that amazes me. In our field, that of entrepreneurship, I always say that what is missing is to be able to share the sorrows and glories with others who have also experienced them. Especially the bad moments. That there are events like this, of people from the company, who want to apply, who want to learn what all this is about, and that they bring you someone like David Carmona, from Microsoft… I’m the opening act. It is a rare bird that we have to take care of. I have told them that next year I want to come as an assistant.