Close Menu
SUBSCRIBE
National News

Sam Altman at Express Adda Highlights: OpenAI CEO on AGI race, Musk rivalry, job losses, and Silicon Valley talent wars

editorialBy No Comments2 Mins Read
Sam Altman at Express Adda Highlights: OpenAI CEO on AGI race, Musk rivalry, job losses, and Silicon Valley talent wars
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman at Express Adda. (Express Image)OpenAI CEO Sam Altman (right) at Express Adda. (Express Image)

Sam Altman at Express Adda Today Live Updates: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was in conversation with Anant Goenka, Executive Director of The Indian Express Group, at Express Adda in New Delhi on Friday, February 20. During the hour-long conversation, Altman touched on the rapid pace of technological advancements, talent wars in Silicon Valley, intensifying competition, the race to AGI/ASI, AI’s impact on society, and his views on peers and contemporaries in the AI industry.

The session saw Altman engage with the audience with light humour as he discussed various aspects of AI development. During the conversation, he said, “AI has gone from being able to do high school math to pushing the edge of human knowledge.”

Story continues below this ad

Altman said the impact of AI on jobs is hard to predict. “I love to read the history of technology. People panicked about jobs during the Industrial Revolution, and they were shockingly wrong. The change won’t be as fast as some people in society predict. But eventually people will find new things to do,” he said.

Altman is arguably one of the most influential technology leaders today, having helped usher in a new digital revolution and offered the world a glimpse of what the future might look like. He co-founded OpenAI in 2015 to pursue artificial general intelligence (AGI), a state of technological maturity in which machines become capable of performing every task that a human being can, with greater precision, efficiency, and speed.