OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says AI tools will shape the future
Sam Altman, CEO of ChatGPT maker OpenAI, said he thinks the future of artificial intelligence entails figuring out new ways to build AI models beyond training them on existing knowledge.
Sam Altman, CEO of ChatGPT maker OpenAI, said he thinks the future of artificial intelligence entails figuring out new ways to build AI models beyond training them on existing knowledge.
Just like a human can’t absorb unlimited knowledge from reading textbooks, he said, he doesn’t believe AI models will simply need more and more data — but he said he’s unsure how exactly the technology will continue to grow smarter once it surpasses that threshold.
At the 20th Aspen Ideas Festival in Colorado on Wednesday, Altman compared the rise of artificial intelligence to the discovery of agriculture or the invention of industrial-era machines. (NBCUniversal News Group, the parent company of NBC News, is the festival’s media partner.)
“People are going to go use these tools to invent the future that we all collectively live in,” he told NBC News anchor Lester Holt. “What one person can already do now before ChatGPT existed is an impressive leap, and by the time we get to GPT-6 or -7, what one person can do will be incredibly increased. And I’m very excited for that, like I think that is the story of the world getting better.”
But workers in many industries, especially creatives across art and entertainment, aren’t as optimistic as Altman is about the prospect of increasingly advanced AI tools. OpenAI and other companies are regularly accused of using copyrighted material from newspapers, artists and other content creators to train their AI models.
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