Teach computers to understand humans.

It's not easy to understand the human mind. Humans have never been very good at it. All human attempts to understand the human mind have failed, or made modest progress.

If a machine can predict or simulate what a person will do in any given situation, that machine understands that person.

The wonder of modern AI is that we built the most complex, intelligent systems in history through a relatively simple process. We asked a computer to predict the next word. To predict the next word a human says, a model has to learn some of the underlying psychology of the human mind. It learned to understand us.

Three fields are converging on a surprisingly simple formula: next behavior prediction. This is likely the correct direction for the next twenty years. Simple does not mean easy.

In the near future, all software will understand you better than you understand yourself.