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Altman’s latest interview: Don’t expect AI to start a 4-hour work week
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Source: zhidx.com
Compiled by Zhidishi | Edited by Eggplant | Cheng Qian Zhidongzhi reported on July 28 that on July 26, American YouTube blogger Relentless released an interview with Sam Altman, co-founder and CEO of American large model giant OpenAI. Altman said that the AI industry is entering the third stage after chatbots and programming agents: persistent AI agents. Altman revealed that OpenAI is investing more computing resources, talents and product strength in key directions such as programming agents, and is abandoning some successful projects for this purpose, including the previous video generation model Sor a. He said that when a certain direction is not as important as a new strategic opportunity, OpenAI will refocus resources on areas of greater long-term value. Altman also revealed a detail: when polishing the Sora short video product, he originally wanted to study the mechanism of the TikTok product, but was obsessed with it. He watched it for 3 hours in a row, and finally had to delete it. This interview reviews OpenAI’s journey from a research laboratory to a global AI company. Altman recalled that when ChatGPT went online and the number of users exceeded 1 million within five days, he truly realized that OpenAI was about to become a large company with rapid expansion. When reviewing the company's development history, he mentioned that the development of OpenAI from 2016 to 2018 was largely due to luck. During the period of 2019 and 2020, OpenAI should not have survived. Google should have relied on its first-mover advantage to eventually win the AI competition. Talking about the future development of AI, Altman said frankly that the biggest physical bottleneck for OpenAI to achieve "Abundant Intelligence" is transistors and electricity. He admitted that the demand for computing resources in the AI era had been seriously underestimated in the past. Altman believes that although technology has been advancing, the vision of a 4-hour work week has never arrived, and that in a super-intelligent world, people will be even busier.