According to Sam Altman, more real and less philosophical work is needed on the subject of AI.

We constantly see messages and large threads talking about artificial intelligence on social networks. One of the points that has taken center stage in the debate is the professions that are going to disappear. These heated Twitter debates do not please Sam Altman, CEO and founder of OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT. He considers that they are really sterile debates, for which reason he does not value them as something useful and wants to put them at the center of all practical work. However, we are going to see what his words have been and what the “philosophical” debate has to contribute to the technology and artificial intelligence market.

Altman vs Twitter: Enough “philosophizing”

Altman and the GPT technology that his company develops, OpenAI, are at the center of the debate on many occasions. Also is true that usually has many public interventions in which it makes clear what are the limits of the company in the future and what is what needs to be done. However, it seems that he has charged in this last interview against Twitter and the eternal philosophical debates that are observed in this The interview in particular has been in Sohn 2023 and he has shared his ideas with a colleague, Patrick Collison.

Thus, the CEO of OpenAI considers that there are too many debates that really do not contribute anything since later they are not really extrapolated to a real job that reaches a specific port. In this way, much is lost along the way and they are sterile debates and Byzantine discussions that do not reach any port at all.

A lot of the people who say they are genuinely concerned about AI security just spend their days on Twitter saying they are very concerned about AI security. There are people who are very concerned and do a lot of technical work on it, but we need more people like that. What the world needs is not more people writing lengthy philosophical discussions on Twitter – Sam Altman

In short:

• Sam Altman believes that philosophizing on Twitter should be abandoned and show a real and practical concern that involves real work behind the scenes to make sure the AI ​​works well.
• In general, he believes that there are people who are concerned about AIs that are doing a job, but that the vast majority complain without much basis.
• Therefore, a practical approach is clearly required for him.

In any case, it is to be expected that an issue as important as the AIs that ensure that they are going to change the world generate a great discussion in the cybernetic agoras. Especially nowadays, in which constant messages about the impact of artificial intelligence*.