A much better way of thinking about them is as a technology that allows humans to access information from many other humans and use that information to make decisions.
Sam Altman on Joe Rogan key take-aways:
Regardless of UBI or any kind of money redistribution, people will crave agency, and self-determination, to play a role in architecting the future with the rest of humanity and creating meaning
Solving the economic problem is not enough, the real... See more
If you look at every technological shift or platform shift so far, it’s resulted in more things to design. You got the printing press, and then you have to figure out what you put on a page. More recently, mobile. You would think, “Okay. Less pixels, less designers.” But no, that’s when we saw the biggest explosion of designers.
If we want to understand what AIs are going to look like, I think the proto AI that we have are corporations. Corporations are sort of these funny little beasts. They’re not small. I guess they’re not little beasts, but they’re strange. It takes special training to have humans be able to fit within them. They’re made out of humans mostly but... See more
Current new-crop of AI assistants is uninspired. "What if we made like a little guy who summarizes your meetings? Or this other guy to schedule your dentist appointment"
We need to aim higher. Emotion sculptors and dream architects, reality-weavers, dimensional navigators