Sam Altman Says Openai Will Have a 'legitimate AI Researcher' by 2028
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Sam Altman predicts OpenAI will develop a 'legitimate AI researcher' by 2028, sparking discussion on the feasibility and implications of such a development.
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How do you measure the difference between intern-level and "legitimate" level researchers, and why aren't interns legitimate? This sounds kinda made up to me.
It just looks like in a few years most people and organizations will be simple LLM lackeys just asking a chatbot what to do every hour of everyday then going to bed and repeating it.
I think this is the goal. No one involved actually believes in "AI". All they need is for ever more people and teams to just become dependent on whatever software nightmare they pull out of the mountain of GPUs they're hooking up.
At this point, it is not a bubble, it doesn't matter if there will be something valuable at the end or not. They're trying to become inescapable and it is working.
It only involves one step: pulling shit straight of of your ass.