OpenAI and Google Reveal Plans for AI Future | Pivot

OpenAI has released its latest model, GPT-4o. The new model... They can't go to five, I don't know why. The new model is capable of realistic voice conversations, sort of, and can interact through text, audio, and image. It will also have memory capabilities allowing it to learn from previous conversations, and can do real-time translation. That's, uh, that's very impressive, but it's not th- as hard as you think it is, that particular one. Um, in the blog post, uh, Sam Altman said, "It feels like AI from the movies." He was referring to Her. Um, I think you didn't see it, 'cause it wasn't a happy movie, FYI, Sam. You need to see it to the end.

It's a great movie.

It... I didn't like it, but, um, but, uh, but I have to say, uh, that's not the movie I would reference in any way. So, talk a little bit about this, um, this new model, the technology, is... A-I is try- uh, OpenAI is trying very hard to keep ahead of its competitors and not be Netscape. I- I think they're doing an interesting job of doing that, but they have to constantly be waving hands so that they're in the center of the attention, uh, scheme of this thing, and, uh, and keep rolling out products. It's smart, you know, 'cause Netscape sort of sat on its laurels and got run over by Microsoft.

Yeah, I'd love... Remember when they used to do those things, like, what if, what if movie titles were real, like, what the movie's actually about? Um, if they wanted to name this what it's actually about, they should call it the Syrian Alexa Killer, because it's... essentially, this is the voice agent we've all wanted. And the stuff I've seen is actually pretty th- exceptional, and I do think Her is a really decent metaphor for this. Uh, that movie really was, uh, prescient, and, and the thing I see that worries me, and I might be... uh, I might be being paranoid, but it doesn't mean I'm wrong, is this is the problem, and it's depicted in the movie Her. This guy begins to sequester from society and have a relationship with an algorithm, and this is the fear, uh, and this is what worries me most about AI, is it's gonna give, yet again, more and more young men a belief that they can have a reasonable facsimile of life without interacting with actual organic beings called humans. Look, this is the biggest threat of AI, and that is we... when we separate from each other in-person and we can express... when we're walking around with our own TV studio and we can say things about people without having any direct contact with them, or we can say something about them without even revealing our identity online, much less in-person, our worst instincts come out. And when we feel, w- when we feel as if we can have something s- some reasonable semblance of a relationship rather than friendship, Reddit or Discord, rather than sex, YouPorn or a sex doll, rather than work, um, Coinbase or Robinhood, people sequester from one another. And the reason why people are so f- afraid of being canceled is that the worst thing that could happen to you throughout most of history is to be shamed, 'cause that meant you were risking being expunged from the tribe or the clan, at which point you would die. And the reason why you die is you become lonely, and without the benefit or the wisdom of crowds and other people caring for you and helping you make good decisions, you slowly get depressed, then crazy, then violent.