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In an episode of his podcast “Unconfuse Me with Bill Gates”, the tech magnate also expressed his apprehensions about the new and rapidly improving technology “with no upper bound”.<\/p>\n
“The idea that it achieves human levels on a lot of areas of work, even if it\u2019s not doing unique science, it can do support calls and sales calls. I guess you and I do have some concern, along with this good thing, that it\u2019ll force us to adapt faster than we\u2019ve had to ever before,” Bill Gates<\/a> said.<\/p>\n To this, Altman<\/a> said that it is the scary part of the artificial intelligence.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s not that we have to adapt. It\u2019s not that humanity is not super-adaptable. We\u2019ve been through these massive technological shifts, and a massive percentage of the jobs that people do can change over a couple of generations, and over a couple of generations, we seem to absorb that just fine,” the OpenAI <\/a>said.\u00a0<\/p>\n He added that the planet has seen \u201cgreat technological revolutions”, and each technological revolution has gotten faster, and this will be the fastest by far.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cThat\u2019s the part that I find potentially a little scary, is the speed with which society is going to have to adapt, and that the labor market will change,” Altman said.<\/p>\n Bill Gates also put forward three things that he worries about with AI: One is that a bad guy is in control of the system. Human purpose. And how do you organise society with AI?<\/p>\n \u201cIf we have good guys who have equally powerful systems that hopefully minimizes that problem. There\u2019s the chance of the system taking control,” he said elaborating on his first concern.<\/p>\n For the concern of the \u201chuman purpose”, Gates said, “I get a lot of excitement that, hey, I\u2019m good at working on malaria, and malaria eradication, and getting smart people and applying resources to that. When the machine says to me, “Bill, go play pickleball, I\u2019ve got malaria eradication. You\u2019re just a slow thinker,” then it is a philosophically confusing thing.”<\/p>\n \u201cYes, we\u2019re going to improve education, but education to do what, if you get to this extreme, which we still have a big uncertainty. For the first time, the chance that might come in the next 20 years is not zero,” he said for his third concern.<\/p>\n Altman, addressing these, said although we are giving something up here, in some sense, we are going to have things that are smarter than us. “If we can get into this world of post-scarcity, we will find new things to do. They will feel very different,” he said adding that maybe instead of solving malaria, you\u2019re deciding which galaxy you like, and what you\u2019re going to do with it.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m confident we\u2019re never going to run out of problems, and we\u2019re never going to run out of different ways to find fulfilment and do things for each other and understand how we play our human games for other humans in this way that\u2019s going to remain really important,” he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cIt is going to be different for sure, but I think the only way out is through. We have to go do this thing. It\u2019s going to happen. This is now an unstoppable technological course. The value is too great. And I\u2019m pretty confident, very confident, we\u2019ll make it work, but it does feel like it\u2019s going to be so different,” the OpenAI CEO added.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \t<\/p>\n