Company president for ChatGPTarguably the world’s most famous AI chatbot, admitted he was “a little scared” of creating his company during an interview with ABC News.
“We’ve to watch out here,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in an interview on Thursday.
He explained that the technology itself is incredibly powerful and might be dangerous.
“I feel people needs to be blissful that we’re a bit scared of that,” said the 37-year-old tech guru.
When pressed on the query of why he was “scared” of starting his company, Altman argued that if he wasn’t “scared”, then “it’s best to either not trust me or be very unhappy that I’m on this job.”
He continued: “This may eliminate many current jobs, it’s true. We will do a lot better. The reason why AI needs to be developed in any respect, in terms of impacting our lives and improving our lives, it is going to be the best technology humanity has ever developed.”
Altman also spoke concerning the impact of AI-based chatbots on education and whether it will “increase laziness amongst students.”
“Education could have to vary,” said OpenAI’s CEO. “But it surely has happened again and again with technology. After we got the calculator, it completely modified the best way we taught math and checked students.”
Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin announced in March that more school districts should ban artificial intelligence technologies like ChatGPT.
Youngkin said that the aim of education was “to be sure that our kids can think, and subsequently if the machine thinks for them, then we will not be achieving our goal.”
But Altman was adamant that ChatGPT could be a net boon to society.
“The promise of this technology, which I’m most enthusiastic about, is the chance of individual learning – great one-to-one learning for every student.”
Altman argued that these advantages would extend beyond education.
“We will have that for each occupation and we will have a much higher quality of life, like the usual of living,” Altman reportedly said. “But we can even have recent things that we will not even imagine today – that is the promise.”
But ChatGPT has one other, more worrisome potential, based on Altman, who warned, “We’re very concerned about authoritarian governments developing and exploiting this.”
ChatGPT recently released an updated version of its technology, ChatGPT-4, on Tuesday. In line with ABC News, one of the changes is that ChatGPT-4 can interpret images and even create lists of recipes from the items within the user’s refrigerator.
Julia Musto of Fox News contributed to this report.