Sam Altman says people don’t really want an AI to act as CEO: ‘I think the world wants to know about the person’
Sam Altman has spent years preparing the world for artificial intelligence that surpasses humans, a threshold known as the “singularity.” Now, the OpenAI CEO says the moment has arrived, but he claims it doesn’t spell the end of the world. A decade ago, Altman said, superintelligent AI felt like a distant dream, something he and his colleagues discussed around the lunch table without expecting to see it themselves.
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Sam Altman has spent years preparing the world for artificial intelligence that surpasses humans, a threshold known as the “singularity.” Now, the OpenAI CEO says the moment has arrived, but he claims it doesn’t spell the end of the world. A decade ago, Altman said, superintelligent AI felt like a distant dream, something he and his colleagues discussed around the lunch table without expecting to see it themselves. That has changed rapidly as AI development has accelerated. “We are now, like, in the singularity,” Altman said in an interview on the Relentless podcast published over the weekend.
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- Sam Altman has spent years preparing the world for artificial intelligence that surpasses humans, a threshold known as the “singularity.” Now, the OpenAI CEO says the moment has arrived, but he claims it doesn’t spell the end of the world. A decade ago, Altman said, superintelligent AI felt like a distant dream, something he and his colleagues discussed around the lunch table without expecting to see it themselves.
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