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Steve Mollman

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman: A.I. ’good at doing tasks’ but terrible at doing whole jobs—for now

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman thinks artificial intelligence is more likely to change your job than steal it, at least in the short term. But either way, you’ll have to adapt now that tools like ChatGPT—which his company released last year, sparking an A.I. boom—are readily available. 

“The current systems are actually not very good at all at doing whole jobs,” he said on Wednesday at an Economic Times event in India. “They’re very good at doing tasks.” 

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