‘Scary part of artificial intelligence is…’: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman tells Bill Gates

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Unconfuse Me with Bill Gates podcast. Further on robotics and blue-collar jobs, Altman said that he has started investing in robotics companies. "At some point, we will be able to use our models with their language understanding and future video understanding," he added.

Currently, AI systems are doing tasks but not jobs. However, Altman said in the future AI will take some of the jobs, and will find new and better jobs as well. Stronger, scarier: A guide to AI in 2024 Altman told Gates, "I totally believe that if you give people way more powerful tools, it’s not just that they can work a little faster, they can do qualitatively different things.

Right now, maybe we can speed up a programmer 3x". Talking about the milestones in the next two years, Altman said the progress will be around reasoning ability and reliability. "Currently, GPT-4 most questions 10,000 times, one of those 10,000 is probably pretty good, but it doesn’t always know which one, and you’d like to get the best response of 10,000 each time, and so that increase in reliability will be important," Altman said.

OpenAI allows using its AI for ‘military and warfare’ purposes Other areas of improvement on Chat GPT-4 will be regarding customisability and personalisation. "The ability to know about you, your email, your calendar, how you like appointments booked, connected to other outside data sources…Those will be some of the most important areas of improvement," Altman told Gates. According to Altman, AI technology will impact society and, the geopolitical balance of power, and therefore, he said, a global regulatory body that looks at those super-powerful systems is the need of the hour.