, a computing system with the potential to be as intelligent as humans, Muglia told Insider in an interview ahead of his book launch.
"I want to focus on things that make a difference in data," Muglia said,"and you know, frankly, are consistent with some of these ideas I have, one of which is that as the world begins to work with more and more types of data, it opens up opportunities to learn more and more about the world." We started working with text data decades ago. ... And then text search became a thing, which enabled Google and, really, the internet. Now here we are, 20 years later, and it's all language-based. In 18 to 24 months, they're just going to be broad foundation models that are multimodal, handling visual and speech and audio and text.