• 马克・库班：AI仍处于早期阶段，但它有创造巨额财富的潜力，甚至有望催生全球第一位万亿资产级别的富豪。他在自己的生活中也经常使用AI，他认为AI可以大幅提高生产力和创造力。不过，他也承认AI存在一些风险和局限性。
世界上有好几家最伟大最成功的科技公司都诞生在私家车库里。比如史蒂夫·乔布斯就是在他父母家的车库里创办了苹果，杰夫・贝佐斯也是在自己的车库里创办了亚马逊。
而现在，随着AI的普及，万众创业时代也将迎来新一波的造富神话。前达拉斯小牛队老板、《创智赢家》的明星嘉宾马克·库班最近就表示，AI很有可能催生出全球第一位资产达到万亿美元级的富翁。
“至于AI能做的最厉害的、最疯狂的事是什么，我们现在还没有见到呢。”库班在6月29日播客节目《High Performance》上表示：“我不仅相信，AI会造就一个万亿美元资产级别的富豪，而且他可能只是一个在地下室里搞研究的家伙。AI的潜力就是这么疯狂。”
以OpenAI为例，这家公司就是它的联合创始人兼总裁格雷格・布罗克曼2015年在他家的客厅里创办的。今年3月，OpenAI完成了一笔400亿美元融资，其估值目前已达到3000亿美元，该公司CEO山姆·奥特曼的身家起码也有20亿美元。
虽然这离万亿美元资产还相去甚远，不过财富追踪机构Informa Connect在 2024年9月份发布的一份报告中称，特斯拉首席执行官伊隆·马斯克有望在2027年前成为万亿级富翁。马斯克还拥有自己的AI初创公司xAI，该公司的估值约为 800亿美元。
“总有创新型企业家能打造出更大更好的东西，但是AI的潜力让一切都相形见绌。”马克·库班说。
马克·库班是如何使用AI的
库班非常看好AI的潜力。他表示，就这项技术的真正潜力而言，我们目前还仅仅处于“季前赛”阶段。
“我并不是说，我们会造出《终结者》那种机器人，也不是说，机器不会像电影里那样突然变得比人还聪明。但是随着技术的不断技步，我们会找到让生活更美好更有趣，让工作更出色更高效的方法。”
库班还表示，他现在几乎在每件事上都会用到AI。比如库班自己患有心房颤动（简称“房颤”），他也会用AI技术来监测健康数据。
他平时需要记录自己服药和锻炼的时间，所以他借助了ChatGPT来辅助记录。他还让ChatGPT帮忙留意，如果自己的记录有不对劲的地方，或者有需要关注的情况，就及时提醒他。
“而且它真就到了，不过你得注意，这就好比你跟一个你觉得某方面知识很渊博的朋友聊天，但是你还是要注意，该看专家的时候就得去看专家。但是AI能够完成这个过程，还能发现很多连我自己可能也不会发现的问题，这种感觉太不可思议了。”
库班还谈到了一个更值得关注的问题——在涉及健康或生命的重大决策时，依赖AI是否是一件好事。现在在健康问题上，很多人都找AI来获得建议，甚至是获得心理疏导。但是专家们警告称，这项技术仍然存在局限性，甚至偶尔也会出错。
对于这一点，库班表示，他会提出更多问题来质疑 AI工具，而且自己也会做研究。
“有时候，我觉得它给出的答案不对，我就会说：‘我觉得你说得不对，我需要你展示你得出这个结论的依据。’这和你跟朋友或者同事聊天时，直接指出他们的意见不对没什么两样。”
至于AI是否会抢走所有人的工作，库班并不同意这个看法。
“虽然AI可以做很多事，但我不认为AI会抢走所有人的饭碗，这种事是不会发生的。不过在那些你喜欢做的事情上——不管你想创业创新，还是做些别的事，又或者你只是想排解一下无聊，它都是最好的无聊搭子。”（财富中文网）
译者：朴成奎
• Mark Cuban said artificial intelligence is only in its early stages and has the potential to create massive wealth—possibly even the world’s first trillionaire. He uses AI extensively in his own life and sees it as a powerful tool for improving productivity and creativity. Still, he acknowledged the risks and limitations of AI.
Some of the world’s largest and most successful tech companies were built at home: Steve Jobs founded Apple in the garage of his parents’ home, and Jeff Bezos also founded Amazon in his garage.
And thanks to artificial intelligence, the trend of developing blockbuster companies at home is sure to continue. Mark Cuban, the billionaire former principal owner of the Dallas Mavericks and Shark Tank star, recently said AI could help make the world’s first trillionaire.
“We haven’t seen the best or the craziest of what [AI is] going to be able to do,” Cuban told the High Performance podcast in an episode published June 29. “And not only do I think it’ll create a trillionaire, but it could be just one dude in the basement. That’s how crazy it could be.”
Take OpenAI, for example, which was formed in cofounder and president Greg Brockman’s living room in 2015. OpenAI is currently valued at $300 billion thanks to a $40 billion fund-raising deal in March. Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, is worth at least $2 billion.
While that’s a far cry from AI creating the world’s first trillionaire, a September 2024 report by wealth-tracking service Informa Connect said Tesla CEO Elon Musk is on pace to become a trillionaire by 2027. Musk also has his own AI startup xAI, which has an estimated $80 billion valuation.
“There’s always something bigger and better that’s created by an innovative entrepreneur,” Cuban said. “But AI just dwarfs all that.”
How Mark Cuban uses AI
Cuban appears to firmly believe in the power of AI, and said we’re only in the “preseason” of what the technology can really do.
“As it becomes more advanced—and I’m not saying we’re going to get the Terminator— I’m not saying all of a sudden there’s going to be robots that are smarter than people, like the movie,” he told High Performance. “But we’ll find ways to make our lives better, more interesting, to work better, more effectively.”
Cuban also said he uses AI for nearly everything. He gave an example of how he uses it to track health metrics since he suffers from atrial fibrillation (“A-fib”).
He had to track when he was taking medications and working out, and used ChatGPT to help him record it. He also asked ChatGPT to let him know if there’s something he writes down that doesn’t seem right or that he should be concerned about.
“And damn if it doesn’t do it,” Cuban said. “Now you’ve got to be careful. It’s like talking to a friend who you think knows a lot about something. You’ve still got to be careful and talk to an expert, but being able to do the process and just having things identified that I might not have known to look for was insane—just insane.”
Cuban touches on one of the larger concerns when it comes to relying on AI for making important health- or life-related decisions. While ChatGPT has served as an accessible means for getting advice, and even therapy, experts have warned the technology still has limitations and makes mistakes.
To combat this, Cuban said, he challenges the AI tools he’s using with more questions and does his own research.
“There’s times when I don’t think the answer is what it should be, or I think it’s wrong. And I’ll say, ‘I don’t think you’re right. I need you to show me the evidence of how you got to this decision,’” he explained. “And it’s no different than talking to a friend or a work colleague and just calling bulls***.”
And on the hot topic of whether AI will take everyone’s jobs, Cuban said no.
“I can just go on all the s*** I’m trying with AI, and I’m not here to tell you that it’s going to replace everybody’s job. It won’t,” he predicted. “But the things that you like to do, if you’re creative, innovative, whatever it may be—or you’re just bored—it might end up being the best alternative to boredom.”