'AI can solve problems, but humans decide what matters,’ says Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas

Key Highlights

• “AI could help humans solve an existing problem but it is very different from AI solving it autonomously,” Srinivas said.
• “I think the edge would lies with the humans because it was a human who identified the problem in the first place.” Srinivas challenged the idea that AI systems possess genuine curiosity, describing it as a distinctly human trait that drives scientific breakthroughs and intellectual progress.
• “Did AI pose a question and try to go to solve it?
• No,” he said.
• “The curiosity of the human that led to even considering that it is important for them to think about conjecture.” According to Srinivas, no AI system to date has demonstrated the ability to ask fundamental questions purely out of curiosity, a limitation he believes defines the current boundary between artificial and biological intelligence.