Don’t expect more of AI than it can do, says Sam Altman

Sam Altman is CEO of OpenAI, which created ChatGPT. He believes that AI will help us work at a higher level of abstraction and with more capacity. But people will still make the decisions.

Sam Altman is CEO of OpenAI, which created ChatGPT. He believes that AI will help us work at a higher level of abstraction and with more capacity. But people will still make the decisions.

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