Sam Altman

You said what you wanted, it wrote some code, and that was it.

Now you can have this back and forth dialogue where you can say, no, no, I meant this, or no, no, fix this bug, or no, no, do this.

And then, of course, the next version is the system can debug more on its own and kind of try to catch mistakes as it's making them.

This idea of dialogue interfaces and iterating with the computer as a creative partner tool, I think that's a really big deal.

Because there's hate in the world.

For sure.

You know, I think something the AI community does is there's a little bit of sleight of hand sometimes when people talk about aligning an AI to human preferences and values.

There's like a hidden asterisk, which is the values and preferences that I approve of.

Right.

And navigating that tension of who gets to decide what the real limits are and how do we build...

that is going to have huge impact, be super powerful, and get the right balance between letting people have the system, the AI that is the AI they want, which will offend a lot of other people, and that's okay, but still draw the lines that we all agree have to be drawn somewhere.

Defining that in an automated fashion through some- Well, these systems can learn a lot if we can agree on what it is that we want them to learn.

My dream scenario, and I don't think we can quite get here, but let's say this is the platonic ideal and we can see how close we get, is that every person on Earth would come together, have a really thoughtful, deliberative conversation about where we want to draw the boundary on this system.

And we would have something like the U.S.

Constitutional Convention where we debate the issues and we look at things from different perspectives and say, well, this would be good in a vacuum, but it needs a check here.

And then we agree on like, here are the rules.

Here are the overall rules of this system.

And it was a democratic process.

None of us got exactly what we wanted, but we got something that we feel right.

good enough about and then we and other builders build a system that has that baked in within that then different countries different institutions can have different versions so you know there's like different rules about say free speech in different countries um and then different users want very different things and that can be within the you know like within the bounds of what's possible in in their country um so we're trying to figure out how to facilitate obviously that process is impractical as as