OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says that AI is aking to an intern and predicted that AI brokers may assist humanity uncover new data from subsequent yr. The assertion by Altman comes at a time when there’s rising anxiousness over the lack of jobs as a result of growing capabilties of AI fashions.
Talking on the Snowflake Summit final week, Altman mentioned, “Immediately [AI] is like an intern that may work for a few hours however in some unspecified time in the future it’ll be like an skilled software program engineer that may work for a few days,”
“I might wager subsequent yr that in some restricted circumstances, no less than in some small methods, we begin to see brokers that may assist us uncover new data, or can work out options to enterprise issues which can be very non-trivial,” Altman added.
In the meantime, the OpenAI CEO whereas talking on the Milken Institute’s World Convention final month mentioned, “You’re not going to lose your job to an AI, however you’re going to lose your job to somebody who makes use of AI,”
Notably, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei had not too long ago claimed that AI may wipe out nearly half of all entry degree white collar jobs within the subsequent 5 years as the brand new know-how will get higher by time.
Sundar Pichai disagrees with Dario Amodei:
Google CEO Sundar Pichai, nevertheless, appeared extra optimistic whereas talking on the Lex Fridman podcast final week when he mentioned that the know-how will function an ‘accelerator’ and can liberate people to do extra inventive duties. The tech chief additionally acknowledged that Google can be hiring software program engineers within the brief to medium time period.
Disagreeing with Anthropic CEO’s assertion, Pichai mentioned, “I respect that … I believe it’s necessary to voice these issues and debate them.”
Notably, AI corporations like Google and OpenAI had launched their software program engineering brokers earlier within the yr that are aimed toward changing software program enginners.
