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For one of the top of one of the highest profile technological organizations on the planet, the tendency of Openai CEO Sam Altman, we will say, to expand, but not to wake up, well, remarkable. Sometimes he really doesn’t think before he talks. The latter example includes his status as a “new parent”, something he obviously does not consider viable without help from his own chatbot (through TechCrunch).
“It is clear that people have long been able to take care of babies without chatt,” initially and astonistrates atman and a shrewdly, Openai -based podcast, just to admit, “I don’t know how I would do this.”
“Those for the first few weeks were constant,” he tells his tendency to consult a child care chat. Obviously, books, consulting friends and family, even a good old -fashioned Google search would not happen to this colossus, and with the field of artificial, is, well, well, well, well, it IntelligenceS
If all this is a sensory arch, forgive me. But Altman is in the absolute regime of AI evangelization in this interview. “I spend a lot of time thinking about how my child will use AI in the future,” he says, “my children will never be smarter than AI. But they will grow much more capable than we grew up and will be able to do things that we cannot imagine, they will be really good at using AI.”
There are countless immediate and obvious objections to this worldview. Certainly people will be better in using AI. But will they be more capable? Maybe most people will not be able to write agreed prose if AI does it for them from day one. Will you make AI do everything more capable?
Not that this is a great revelation, but this podcast makes it clear how much Altman has been registered for the AI revolution. “They will look back at this as a very prehistoric period of time,” he says of today’s children.
This is a slightly strange statement given the “prehistory” before human activities and endeavors are recorded for offspring. And, of course, the very existence of the large language models that Openai creates entirely rely on the innumerable data gigabytes before AI, to which these LLMs were originally trained.
In fact, one of the biggest challenges facing AI is the concept of chatting pollution. The idea is that after the Chatgpt came out at The Wild in 2022, the data that LLMS is now being trained increase pollution with the synthetic output of previous chatbots.
As more and more chatbots are injecting more and more synthetic data into the overall shared pool, the next generations of AI models will become more and more reliable and will eventually lead to a condition known as AI model crashes.
In fact, some observers believe that this is already happening, as evidenced by the growing tendency to hallucinate by some of the latest models. Cleaning this problem will be “forgotten expensive, probably impossible” by some accounts.
Anyway, if there is a problem with Altman’s unwavering optimistic statements, this is probably a lack of nuance. Everything before AI is hopeless and cumbersome, until it is difficult to imagine how you would care for a newborn baby without a chat. Everything after AI is bright and clean and perfect.
Of course, anyone who has used a current chatbot for more than a few moments will be very familiar with their immediately obvious restrictions, let alone the wider problems they can create, even if problems such as hallucination are overcome. At the very least, it would be much easier to sympathize with Altman’s likes if there was any sense of these challenges to balance his unilateral story.
Anywho, fire the podcast and decide for yourself exactly what you do from Altman’s attitudes about everything.