Bill Gates and Sam Altman, face to face: AI will cause the fastest and most terrifying technological revolution in history
The new episode of Bill Gates’ podcast is sure to be loved by many fans of artificial intelligence and technology in general. With the name Unconfused Me, Gates has interviewed none other than Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, with whom he shared his concerns about the revolution driven by AI, warning that it will be the fastest in the history of humanity.
Altman expressed concern that the speed with which society will have to adapt and how the job market will change could be “potentially terrifying,” which, of course, has left the former Microsoft founder quite bewildered.
Although it is true that humanity always manages to adapt to everything that arrives, as for example happened with the arrival of machines to replace humans, Sam Altman points out that this technological revolution will be different, surpassing all previous ones in speed.
“And over a couple of generations, we seem to absorb that very well. We’ve seen that with the big technological revolutions of the past. Every technological revolution has gotten faster, and this one will be the fastest by far, and that’s the part”. What I find potentially a little scary is the speed with which society will have to adapt and the job market will change,” he says.
“I had the privilege of seeing his work as it evolved, and I was very skeptical,” says Gates
Despite the skepticism, it seems that Gates’ thinking has changed, a lot. Precisely, going to another topic that they talked about at length, Bill Gates and Sam Altman discussed the surprising ability of ChatGPTthe famous creation of OpenAI. Gates expressed his amazement at the quality of this chatbot: “I didn’t expect ChatGPT to be so good,” he says. “It blows my mind.”
Of course, there was also a little space to talk about the regulation of artificial intelligence, with Altman suggesting the need to regulate powerful systems, although he highlighted that, although regulation can help with the biggest risks of AI, they can still give problems with smaller scale systems.
Of course, bringing together these two great figures in the same space to talk about issues that concern everyone is a success, although the words of the one who is the greatest exponent of artificial intelligence in the world do cause a minimum of concern.
