Sam Altman on why he thinks curing cancer isn't an ambitious enough goal for AI "I don't think we've done a great job as an industry of really talking about how to empower people with this technology" "You hear some people talk about, well, we're going to give you... a cure for cancer, and that's so great, so we're going to take these risks and you're going to have to have less power and autonomy. We want people to have more power and autonomy" "I don't think a cure for cancer is enough. I mean, a wonderful thing to have, obviously, but we should set our sights higher. We want these tools to enable a boom in creativity and entrepreneurship, in people figuring out new ways to be useful to each other"show more

Menos palabrería y que curen el puto cancer primero

Well, AI can’t find cures and he knew it. He’s just distracting people because AI isn’t all that powerful as these people claims to be.

outcomes alone miss the point if users lose autonomy

I'm starting to think that the 5 or 6 guys that are behind the companies creating AI know that it is just a hybrid web search engine and are trying to convince us that it is more just to get our investment money

That's why I like Sam Altman more, because it's all about power, and he is working to give us all power, not like all other CEOs who are taking the power for themselves

Sounds amazing, but we haven’t even cured ACNE. Or RABIES. So let’s get cracking boys.

@sama @OpenAI #stopopenai #danger

He is so inspiring. Love his speech at Stanford 😭🫶

I need support to be useful to other people. I can't just be helping and going broke.

Curing cancer not ambitious enough. Easy to raise the bar when your valuation depends on hype. I judge technology by productivity data, not TV interviews.

a cure can solve one urgent problem without widening who gets to create giving more people agency lets the benefits extend across many problems

CURIOUS TO KNOW IF MR. Sam Altman DISCUSSED curing cancer WITH HIS HUSBAND.

So basicallu all we got right now is a super google, nothing really game changing just busy work is now automated

What a wonderful mindset. I agree...if we all oriented our minds to using this super power to help make the world the best it can be, then how incredible would that be for all

old sam: chatgpt will cure cancer and climate 🥺 new sam: fuck that. curing cancer lacks ambition. we must aim higher. ai should instead be used to make money

aight cool lets be entrepreneurs but curing cancer is a good start isn't it Sam

Sam insanlardan bir şey saklıyor bu çok net.

What Open AI will not do.. Anthropic will..or any other..

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If Sam or anyone he cares about gets cancer, he’d be singing a completely different tune.

Bro is Looksmaxing

How about you do one single thing you've promised. So far it's just been one gigantic nightmare. I could do with even the tiniest little bit of the utopia you creeps have been going on about. Because I'm not seeing it.

A cure could improve lives without giving people more say The broader goal is pairing better outcomes with greater autonomy

Honesty is though

He doesn’t look well and he’s the one that had done a terrible job in messaging

@abcsoka Tell that to my wife with brain cancer. What a dumb comment. Easy statement to make when you haven’t watched a person go through this disease.

I agree, curing cancer would definitely be a big accomplishment for AI but not enough It could be infinitely more useful

The bigger question is what people do with that power. Curing cancer is huge, but giving millions of people the ability to create, build and solve problems themselves could change a lot more than one breakthrough.

He's right, but then he goes right back to selling it poorly. I think most people wanna cure cancer over something vague like being more creative and useful to each other.

Cancer is the low hanging fruit. CERN people should be using AI and perhaps make new discoveries. Anti-aging scientists should get a hold of the most powerful AI technologies to potentially end aging and involuntary death.

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@sama not sure why people feel cure for cancer is less autonomy.We don’t think curing cancer is ultimate goal for AI but if it could we should do it. There is a divide are addressing the people you able, driven can do wonders.

I think the autonomy point is what makes this interesting. AI should expand what people can do, not make them more dependent on it.

He after play pillow but not me (🤣🤣) 🙏 If he is jelly he is like this want guys He is jelly with Mr Elon .. (😝🫶🫶🥰🥰😍😍😂)

Wow he finally gets it.