{"id":152418,"date":"2022-12-10T15:27:22","date_gmt":"2022-12-10T21:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/is-chatgpt-a-virus-that-has-been-released-into-the-wild"},"modified":"2022-12-10T15:27:22","modified_gmt":"2022-12-10T21:27:22","slug":"is-chatgpt-a-virus-that-has-been-released-into-the-wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/is-chatgpt-a-virus-that-has-been-released-into-the-wild","title":{"rendered":"Is ChatGPT a \u2018virus that has been released into the wild\u2019?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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More than three years ago, this editor sat down<\/a> with Sam Altman for a small event in San Francisco soon after he\u2019d left his role as the president of Y Combinator to become CEO of the AI company he co-founded in 2015 with Elon Musk and others, OpenAI<\/a>.<\/p>\n

At the time, Altman described OpenAI\u2019s potential in language that sounded outlandish to some. Altman said, for example, that the opportunity with artificial general intelligence \u2014 machine intelligence that can solve problems as well as a human \u2014 is so great that if OpenAI managed to crack it, the outfit could \u201cmaybe capture the light cone of all future value in the universe.\u201d He said that the company was \u201cgoing to have to not release research\u201d because it was so powerful. Asked if OpenAI was guilty of fear-mongering \u2014 Musk has repeatedly called all organizations developing AI to be regulated<\/a> \u2014 Altman talked about the dangers of not<\/em> thinking about \u201csocietal consequences\u201d when \u201cyou\u2019re building something on an exponential curve.\u201d<\/p>\n

The audience laughed at various points of the conversation, not certain how seriously to take Altman. No one is laughing now, however. While machines are not yet as intelligent as people, the tech<\/a> that OpenAI has since released is taking many aback (including Musk<\/a>), with some critics fearful that it could be our undoing, especially with more sophisticated tech reportedly coming<\/a> soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

More than three years ago, this editor sat down with Sam Altman for a small event in San Francisco soon after he\u2019d left his role as the president of Y Combinator to become CEO of the AI company he co-founded in 2015 with Elon Musk and others, OpenAI. At the time, Altman described OpenAI\u2019s potential [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,2019,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-elon-musk","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}