Sam Altman

There will be a kind of ability we still really value, but it will not be raw intellectual horsepower to the same degree.

I mean, the kind of dumb version of this would be figuring out what questions to ask will be more important than figuring out the answer.

You ever watch that TV show Battlestar Galactica?

One of the things they say again and again in the show is all this happened before all this will happen again.

And when people talk about the AI revolution, it does feel different to me in some super important qualitative ways.

But also it reminds me of

previous technological panics when i was a kid this thing came out new thing launched on the internet i thought it was cool other people thought it was cool it was clearly way better than the stuff that came before i was not quite old enough yet for this to happen directly to me but the older kids told me about it the teachers started banning the google because did they call it the google the google

If you could just look up every fact, then what was the purpose of going to history class and memorizing facts?

We were going to lose something so critical about how we teach our children and what it means to be a responsible member of society.

And if you could just look up any fact instantly.

You didn't even have to like fire up the combustion engine, drive to the library, look in the card catalog, find a book.

It was just there.

It felt unjust.

It felt wrong.

It felt like we were going to lose something.

We weren't going to do that.

And with all of these, what happens is like we get better tools, expectations go up, but so does what someone's capable of.

And we just learn how to do more difficult, more impactful, more interesting, whatever things.

And I expect AI to be like that too.

If you asked someone a few years ago, A, will there be a system as powerful as O1 in 2024?