Sam Altman Says AI Will Be Like a Super Smart Person Who 'Knows Absolutely Everything' About Your Life

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The AI of the future won't just be a chatbot — it'll be, according to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, outfitted with incredibly detailed information about its users., Altman suggested that AI should be working for its users harder than even the hardest-working human executive assistant, and would know absolutely everything about whoever is using it.

Speaking to the magazine between a series of events at Harvard, which were hosted in part by the venture capital firm Xfund, the OpenAI cofounder said that the best use of AI would be a "super-competent colleague that knows absolutely everything about my whole life, every email, every conversation I’ve ever had, but doesn’t feel like an extension."

Obviously AI isn't there yet. In the same interview, Altman referred to ChatGPT as "incredibly dumb," and in a separate"The most important thing to say about GPT-5 versus GPT-4 is just that it’ll be smarter," the Stanford dropout told the Harvard student paper. "It’s not that it’s better in this way or that way."

"The fact that we can make progress across all model behavior and capabilities at once — I think that’s the miracle," he continued.As has been evident for a while now, talking a big game about the future of AI is very much a part of Altman's job description.Within a few months of the release of GPT-4 in March 2023, however, expectations had begun bucking up against reality — which Altman, to his credit, now jokes about.

"I think it’s awesome that for two weeks, everybody was freaking out about ChatGPT-4, and then by the third week, everyone was like, 'Come on, where’s GPT-5?'" Altman quippedwith MIT president Sally Kornbluth soon after his Harvard talks. "I think that says something legitimately great about human expectation and striving and why we all have to make things better.

 

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