ChatGPT creator Sam Altman is “a little scared” of his creation
The CEO of the company behind ChatGPTprobably the most famous AI chatbot in the world, admitted he was “a little scared” about starting his business during an interview with ABC News.
“We have to be careful here,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in an interview Thursday.
This is because the technology itself, he explained, was extremely powerful and could be dangerous.
“I think people should be happy that we’re a little scared of this,” the 37-year-old tech guru said.
When asked why he was “afraid” of starting his company, Altman argued that if he wasn’t “afraid,” then “you should either not trust me or be very upset. that I hold this position”.
He continued: “It will eliminate a lot of current jobs, it is true. We can do much better. The reason to develop AI at all, in terms of impacting our lives and improving our lives and benefits, it will be the greatest technology humanity has yet developed.
Altman also spoke about the impacts AI-powered chatbots would have on education and whether it would “increase laziness among students.”
“Education is going to have to change,” said the CEO of OpenAI. “But it’s happened many other times with technology. When we got the calculator, the way we taught math and what we tested students on totally changed. »
Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin announced in March that more school districts should ban AI technologies such as ChatGPT.
Youngkin said the purpose of education was “to ensure that our children can think, and therefore if a machine thinks for them, we are not achieving our goal.”
But Altman was adamant that ChatGPT would be a net boon to the company.
“The promise of this technology, one of the ones I’m most excited about, is the ability to provide one-on-one learning – great one-on-one learning for every student.”
And those benefits wouldn’t just extend to education, Altman said.
“We can have that for every profession, and we can have a much better quality of life, like standard of living,” Altman reportedly said. “But we can also have new things that we can’t even imagine today – so that’s the promise.”
But ChatGPT has another, more disturbing potential, according to Altman, who warned, “We are very concerned about authoritarian governments developing and using this.
ChatGPT recently released an updated version of its technology, ChatGPT-4, on Tuesday. One change is that ChatGPT-4 can interpret images and even create recipe lists from items in a user’s refrigerator, according to ABC News.
TOU’ Julia Musto contributed to this report.
ChatGPT creator Sam Altman is “a little scared” of his creation
