OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Mira Murati discuss the capabilities of their future GPT models, how human relationships with AI will change in the future and fears about safety, liability and work as the technology advances.
Photo: Nikki Ritcher for The Wall Street JournalIn the fast-moving world of artificial intelligence, talk about the future tends to focus on something referred to as “artificial general intelligence”—the stage at which AI will be capable of doing any job a human can do, only better.
Perhaps no company is in a better position to talk about the potential benefits and risks of this so-called AGI than OpenAI (49%-owned by Microsoft ), the creators of the popular chatbot ChatGPT.
At The Wall Street Journal’s annual Tech Live conference last week, the Journal’s senior personal-technology columnist Joanna Stern spoke with OpenAI’s Chief Executive Sam Altman and Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati .
Edited excerpts of their conversation follow.
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