Sam Altman says he has a hard time imagining “how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT.” The OpenAI CEO joined Jimmy Fallon to talk about his latest product to hawk. Artificial Intelligence is a big discussion point these days, and Altman went on to The Tonight Show to plead its case. Somehow, these two knuckleheads got into talking about raising kids.
Because we live on this cursed rock, Altman would give his read on child rearing. Basically, he can’t really go without ChatGPT when it comes to figuring out how to handle complex issues that arise with his newborn. The CEO’s son seems to be a mostly normal child, but that doesn’t stop parents from worrying. Instead of using that vast amount of wealth to ask an actual human being about what to do when these “crises” arise, Altman opts to do the equivalent of setting a few trees on fire.
“I cannot imagine having gone through, figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT,” Altman smirked on the late night show. “People did it for a long time, no problem. So clearly it was possible, but I have relied on it so much.”
Altman needs ChatGPT to function
Perhaps the scariest thing of all is that Altman is not alone. While not as high as these advertisements would have you believe, there are people who use ChatGPT quite often in their everyday lives. On its face, that doesn’t seem like such a big deal. But, when taking into account the environmental impacts of such technology, along with the deleterious effects on human cognition, we should probably slow our roll.
“One of the things that I’m worried about is just the rate of change that’s happening in the world right now,” Altman observed. “This is a three-year-old technology. No other technology has ever been adopted by the world this fast.”
He added, “Making sure that we introduce this to the world in a responsible way, where people have time to adapt, to give input, to figure out how to do this—you could imagine us getting that wrong.”
Where to begin with this largely unsubstantiated claim. Even if we were to assume, on a charitable basis, that AI was this kind of watershed moment for technology, that doesn’t make good at all? There have been plenty of scientific discoveries throughout human history that were monumental in their own right, but completely and utterly destructive when put into practice. One of those was the subject of a very long motion picture that won a bunch of Oscars two years ago. Needless to say, I don’t think we’ll be getting Christopher Nolan movie about Sam Altman anytime soon.
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