Sounds so much like the old "You will own nothing and you will be happy". We got bombarded with things "as a service" and subscription models and I'm definitely less happy. I wanna own my stuff. I don't want to rent it from corporate overlords.

I'm sure this will go the exact same way. At first it will be a tool to make work easier. But then we'll be babysat by a corporate AI that will decide if we're still useful enough. And with every thing we use AI for it will learn more so it can displace more jobs.

Dude had a molotov thrown at his house and is still talking like this.

Why do these careless turds keep being given a platform to spout stupid things??

Sam Altman says

Opinon rejected.

“We think of new things to do, to create for each other, to want for ourselves. People are very focused on how they’re doing relative to other people,” he said.

“I expect that to keep going. I think we’re all going to be much busier than we thought we'd be in a post-super-intelligence world, and we’re still going to complain about it. But secretly we’re going to be happy,”

What a cynical asshole, can't imagine people caring about anything beyond wealth and status. I'm not sure what he's implying about whether they will have any choice (does "we're still going to complain about it" mean we will not?)

Won't someone rid us of this meddlesome asshole?

Can millionaires+ shut the fuck up about work already? Most of them have never worked an hour in their lives, with the rest having worked between 6 and 18 months total, 30+ years ago.

I truly hate this motherfucker.

Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others.

~ "The Brothers Karamazov" by Fyodor Dostoevsky (1880)

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We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

~ "The Passionate State of Mind" by Eric Hoffer, 1955 (preview)

CEO says

Eat a bag of dogshit.

Why do so many of these CEOs barely look human?

I (am forced to) work with AI at my job and it makes me miserable. Way more often than before I just put in the hours and I've stopped caring about the product...

I think he just Trumps his way through interviews, inject bleach to disinfect the lungs, medical science can have that, I just thought of it.

Downvoted because we are platforming this asshole by sharing what he says against sharing data about what he and the other assholes do.

LOOOOOOOOLL

Sam Altman?!?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

Are there any neo-pagan witches here that can curse him?

Didn't his own younger sister accuse him of sexually assaulting and raping her when she was a little kid? And then the whole family circled wagons around Sam and claimed the sister was mentally ill?

I mean, getting raped and molested as a little kid by your older sibling would definitely give you some mental trauma and problems.

“Technology, for a long time, has been promising people that they’re going to work less and they're going to have all this leisure," Altman said, adding that things have gone in this direction.

He explained that people now have more time for leisure and a higher quality of life than in previous points in history.

"But somehow we never get the promise of the 4-hour workweek on a mass scale in society. And I don't expect AI to change that,” Altman said.

OpenAI CEO added that people’s expectations always go up, and they want more.

“We think of new things to do, to create for each other, to want for ourselves. People are very focused on how they’re doing relative to other people,” he said.

Altman then spoke about the competition that drives the economy and people’s desire to be useful to others and to create.

Altman’s predictions are in stark contrast to the vision of Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX, the company behind the chatbot Grok.

In a recent interview with the Economist, Musk envisioned a future in which jobs are optional, and money doesn’t matter, but he didn’t provide much detail on the transition to this level of abundance.

Yeah, I think that Altman is probably closer to being right than Musk is, at least for some time to come. If you're talking about the kind of systems that OpenAI and xAI are working on, then certainly.

A lot of people

on the Threadiverse I see plenty posting

are really worried about permanent expanding structural unemployment. Something like "there will be no jobs" or something like that. And, okay, it's not immediately obvious why that wouldn't happen. And there have been some very prestigious people who have predicted otherwise.

https://www.npr.org/2015/08/13/432122637/keynes-predicted-we-would-be-working-15-hour-weeks-why-was-he-so-wrong

The economist John Maynard Keynes once wrote an essay titled "Economic Possibilities For Our Grandchildren." It was 1930. And in the essay, he made a startling prediction. Keynes figured that by the time his children had grown up, basically now, people might be working just 15 hours a week. David Kestenbaum with our PLANET MONEY team tried to sort out where Keynes went wrong.

To date, what has consistently always happened over time is that as our productive capacity increases, someone finds some way to create a higher standard of living using that productive capacity. That higher standard of living has always been more-appealing than the leisure time. If we wanted the standard of living that was present in 1900, say, we could work a lot less and just accept that standard of living. What happened instead of increasing leisure was increasing standard of living. Larger houses, air conditioning, cars, video games, elaborate movies, out-of-season fruits and vegetables, all that.

It's possible that that phenomenon will end, but I'd bet against it in the near term. We're really good at finding new things that people would like.

Now, I do expect that there will come a point where you can produce an AGI that is truly superhuman in the sense that it's more-capable in every significant way than a human. I do not think that that is going to happen in a year or ten years, but it might not be that far down the road. And then, unless you see demand specifically for something made by humans

think of the way that there is demand for, say, expensive handmade fountain pens, something like Veblen goods

we're going to have to rejigger things for a post-scarcity society.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-scarcity

Post-scarcity is a theoretical economic situation in which most goods can be produced in great abundance with minimal human labor, so that they become available to all very cheaply or even freely.[1][2]

Post-scarcity does not mean that scarcity has been eliminated for all goods and services. Instead it means that all people can easily have their basic survival needs met along with some significant proportion of their desires for goods and services.[3] Writers on the topic often emphasize that some commodities will remain scarce in a post-scarcity society.[4][5][6][7]

But I would be pretty confident that ChatGPT isn't getting humanity to a post-scarcity society in the near future.

And I think that there are a whole host of other things that would change in human society in such an environment that I'm not sure that structural unemployment would be the first thing I'd think about. Like...what does the military balance of power look like in a world where an individual can hypothetically manufacture robots that manufacture factories that manufacture military drones, say? I mean, it's a awfully different world in a lot of ways.