OpenAI CEO Is 'A Little Bit Scared' Of ChatGPT, Says It Will 'Eliminate' Many Jobs

When OpenAI unveiled ChatGPT last year, it broke all records in terms of user engagement (touching 100 million active users in January) and took the internet by storm, prompting other companies to start investing heavily in public facing artificial intelligence technologies as well.

Recently, OpenAI also released GPT-4, its updated and smarter language model that has shown immense resilience in the face of challenges thrown its way. Now, OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman says that he's "a little bit scared" of ChatGPT and warned that it could "eliminate" many jobs.

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Speaking to ABC News on Thursday, Sam Altman said that this is a good thing, and that "people should be happy" that OpenAI is a bit scared of what ChatGPT and AI can do in general.

Going a step further, Altman said that he shouldn't be trusted if he ever said that the scope of ChatGPT didn't scare him. "I think if I said I were not, you should either not trust me, or be very unhappy I'm in this job," he said.

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Altman claimed that a lot of jobs would become obsolete with the advent of AI, but that it would lead to the creation of "much better ones." There's general consensus that tools like ChatGPT and GPT-4 will still need a human channel to work efficiently.

"The reason to develop AI at all, in terms of impact on our lives and improving our lives and upside, this will be the greatest technology humanity has yet developed," he added.

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In addition, Altman told ABC that OpenAI is in "regular contact" with government officials and regulators for their product rollouts to prevent negative outcomes.

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Earlier, Altman had spoken in support of regulating AI, claiming that "potentially scary" AI could become a reality in the near-future. He added that making rules was "critical" and that society would need time to adjust to "something so big."

we also need enough time for our institutions to figure out what to do. regulation will be critical and will take time to figure out; although current-generation AI tools aren¡¯t very scary, i think we are potentially not that far away from potentially scary ones.

¡ª Sam Altman (@sama) February 19, 2023

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