'I'm delighted to be wrong about this' — Sam Altman says one of his biggest fears about AI…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has done something few Silicon Valley bosses ever do, admit he is wrong. Speaking virtually at a Commonwealth Bank of Australia conference in Sydney in May, Altman confessed that one of his biggest concerns about AI simply has not played out the way he expected. For someone whose job often involves predicting the future, it was a surprisingly candid moment.
"I'm delighted to be wrong about this. I thought there would have been more impact on entry-level white-collar jobs being eliminated by now than has actually happened," Altman said. "I now think I understand more about why it hasn't, and I'm obviously grateful, but that is an area where my intuitions were just off."
Altman explained that OpenAI had been "roughly right" about many of the technological predictions it made when ChatGPTlaunched. AI has become more capable at an astonishing pace. What he appears...
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