Yat Siu, founder and executive chairman of Animoca Brands, a metaverse startup, has led more than 200 investments and says of the battle for Web3: “We’re in a bit of a hurry.”
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Artificial intelligence will disrupt the job market but should ultimately create more jobs and make creativity much more sought-after, according to Yat Siu, co-founder of Animoca Brands.
“We are born creative and we lose our creativity to fit into a system because we try to turn ourselves into machines and perform rather regular actions,” Siu said in an interview on the sidelines of the SuperAI conference in Singapore.
But humans can maintain that creativity, he said, while machines do the work.
“Optimistically, this means we can all be free to be creative, because machines can ultimately provide what we need to do on that side of things, while we can be truly human,” Siu said.
Animoca, co-founded by Siu in 2014, now has over 600 companies in its portfolio across gaming, decentralized finance and real-world assets.
AI “is going to create a lot more jobs,” Siu said, while noting that there would also be disruption.
“The superpower of an AI is that it can code anything,” and its coding skills “will eventually surpass those of humans… We have a real commodification of ability and intelligence, which means that skill has to be focused on creativity and coordination,” he said.
When asked about Anthropic recent warning Regarding the dangers of using AI, Siu said he was “on the optimistic side.”
“Most people are going to use AI in a way that would be beneficial,” he said. “There will be a few people who do bad things, they will have to be stopped, but… to me it doesn’t look like a nuclear arms race.”
