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Sam Altman

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TED Talks Daily
Sunday Pick: Sam Altman on the future of AI and humanity | ReThinking with Adam Grant

And I'm fine to get to a world where the social norms evolve that everybody can just send each other the bullet points.

TED Talks Daily
Sunday Pick: Sam Altman on the future of AI and humanity | ReThinking with Adam Grant

No one knows.

TED Talks Daily
Sunday Pick: Sam Altman on the future of AI and humanity | ReThinking with Adam Grant

But I think the more interesting answer is what is a human useful for today?

TED Talks Daily
Sunday Pick: Sam Altman on the future of AI and humanity | ReThinking with Adam Grant

And I would say being useful to other people.

TED Talks Daily
Sunday Pick: Sam Altman on the future of AI and humanity | ReThinking with Adam Grant

And I think that'll keep being the case.

TED Talks Daily
Sunday Pick: Sam Altman on the future of AI and humanity | ReThinking with Adam Grant

I think that someone said to me, this was Paul Buchheit many, many years ago that really stuck with me as he had been thinking and thinking and thinking.

TED Talks Daily
Sunday Pick: Sam Altman on the future of AI and humanity | ReThinking with Adam Grant

This is like before OpenAI started.

TED Talks Daily
Sunday Pick: Sam Altman on the future of AI and humanity | ReThinking with Adam Grant

He thought that someday there was just going to be human money and machine money, and they were going to be completely separate currencies, and one wouldn't care about the other.

TED Talks Daily
Sunday Pick: Sam Altman on the future of AI and humanity | ReThinking with Adam Grant

I don't expect that to be literally what happens, but I think it's a very deep insight.

TED Talks Daily
Sunday Pick: Sam Altman on the future of AI and humanity | ReThinking with Adam Grant

Fascinating.

TED Talks Daily
Sunday Pick: Sam Altman on the future of AI and humanity | ReThinking with Adam Grant

I've never thought about machines having their own currency.

TED Talks Daily
Sunday Pick: Sam Altman on the future of AI and humanity | ReThinking with Adam Grant

You will be thrilled that the AI has invented all of the science for you and cured disease and

TED Talks Daily
Sunday Pick: Sam Altman on the future of AI and humanity | ReThinking with Adam Grant

you know made fusion work and just impossible triumphs we can't imagine but will you care about what an ai does versus what some friend of yours does or some person running some company does i don't know probably not that much now like maybe some people do maybe there's like some really weird cults around particular ais and i will bet we'll be surprised the degree to which we're still very people focused

TED Talks Daily
Sunday Pick: Sam Altman on the future of AI and humanity | ReThinking with Adam Grant

This is me in like GPT-4 mode instead of 01 mode where I just have to like one shot it, you know, as quickly as I can.

TED Talks Daily
Sunday Pick: Sam Altman on the future of AI and humanity | ReThinking with Adam Grant

I'll put the next token.

TED Talks Daily
Sunday Pick: Sam Altman on the future of AI and humanity | ReThinking with Adam Grant

I think a fast takeoff is more possible than I thought a couple of years ago.

TED Talks Daily
Sunday Pick: Sam Altman on the future of AI and humanity | ReThinking with Adam Grant

How fast?

TED Talks Daily
Sunday Pick: Sam Altman on the future of AI and humanity | ReThinking with Adam Grant

Feels hard to reason about, but something that's in like a small number of years rather than a decade.

TED Talks Daily
Sunday Pick: Sam Altman on the future of AI and humanity | ReThinking with Adam Grant

Wow.

TED Talks Daily
Sunday Pick: Sam Altman on the future of AI and humanity | ReThinking with Adam Grant

What do you think is the worst advice people are given on adapting to AI?