Sam Altman says that children love Chatgpt’s advanced speech mode in the new OpenAI podcast
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Sam Altman appeared in the first episode of Openi‘s brand new podcast, simply the openai podcast, which is available to see now Spotify” Apple PodcastsAnd YouTube.
The podcast is organized by Andrew Mayne and in the first episode, OpenAi CEO Sam Altman adds to the host to talk about the future of AI: Van GPT-5 and AGI to Project Stargate, new research work flows and AI-driven parenthood.
Sam Altman on Agi, GPT-5, and what is the next place-the openi podcast EP. 1 – YouTube
While altman’s Thoughts about Agi It is always worth paying attention, it was his advice about ai-driven parenthood that my ear caught this time.
You have to ask yourself whether the PR advisers of Altman have taken the day off, because after asking the softball question: ‘You recently became a new parent, how is you Chatgpt Help you with that? Altman in one way or another draws us to a nightmare scenario of a generation of ai-desired children who have lost the ability to communicate with ordinary people in favor of their parasocial relationships with chatgpt.
“My children will never be smarter than AI,” says Altman in a businesslike way. “But they will also become a lot more capable than we were when we grew up. They will be able to do things that we cannot imagine and they will be really good at using AI. And of course I think a lot about it, but I think much more about what they will have that we don’t have …
That all sounds great, but later in the conversation he says: “Again, I suspect that this will not all be good, there will be problems and people will develop these problematic, or somewhat problematic, parasocial relationships.”
If you are wondering what “parasocial relationships” are, they will develop when we start to consider media personalities or famous people as friends, even though we have no real interactions with them; The way we all think we know George Clooney because he is that friendly doctor, or from his films or the Nespresso advertisement, while we have never met him and probably never do it.
Mitigate the disadvantages
Altman characterizes the interactions of a child with chatgpt in the same way, but interesting is that he does not offer solutions for a generation of chatgpt advanced speech mode instead of human interaction. Instead, he sees it as a problem for society to find out.
“The benefits will be huge and society in general is good at figuring out how to reduce the disadvantages,” Altman assures the viewer.
Now I will admit that I am a more cynical tendency, but this seems like he was washing his hands with a problem that Openai creates. Potential problems that a generation of children who will have with chatgpt interaction are apparently not the care of OpenAI.
In fact, earlier, when the podcast host brought the sample story of a parent of the advanced speech mode of Chatgpt to talk to their child about Thomas de Tank engine, instead of doing it, because they are bored to talk about it endlessly, nods altman in Chatgpt “.
Indeed they do Sam, but is it wise to let your child let go in the advanced speech mode of Chatgpt without supervision? As a parent itself (although of many older children now) I am not comfortable to hear that young children get what sounds like without supervision access to chatgpt.
AI comes with all kinds of warnings for a reason. It can make mistakes, it can give bad advice and it can hallucinate things that are not true. Not to mention the fact that “chatgpt is not intended for children under the age of 13” according to OpenAi’s Own guidelinesAnd I can’t imagine that there are many children older than 13 who are interested in talking about Thomas the Tank engine!
I have no problem using chatgpt with my children, but when chatgpt was available, they were both older than 13. If I used it with younger children, I would always ensure that they didn’t use it alone.
I do not suggest that Altman is a bad parent in any way and I appreciate his enthusiasm for AI, but I think he should leave the parenting advice to the experts for the time being.
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