'AI will probably most likely lead to the end of the world, but in the meantime, there’ll be great companies' - quote of the day by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman
We're very well accustomed to the AI doomsday scenario, popularized by science fiction writing and cinema. But it's only in recent years that experts have seriously entertained a non-zero chance of an AI cataclysm actually happening.
Although Sam Altman has a mixed record on AI safety, he has always been a vocal proponent of checks and balances, at least in public.
The great economic promise
We've long considered AI tools to be a huge boon to business productivity, with tools like machine learning and robotic process automation (RPA) widely considered key enablers in the previous enterprise era.
Months before cofounding OpenAI, Sam Altman, then head of the famous Silicon Valley incubator Y Combinator, joked about the vast breadth of outcomes that future AI systems may pose.
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