‘Kid-pilled’ Sam Altman ‘constantly’ asked ChatGPT questions about his newborn

During hundreds of thousands of years of human existence, an impossible question confused our species: why does the baby cry?!

Sam Altman, who is the father of a 3 month old child and CEO of Openai, jumped The new Podcast of Openai Today to talk about the impact of his business on his experience with fatherhood. Altman, who describes himself as “extremely folded by children”, said that he “constantly” used the Chatppt to ask questions about the behavior of babies during the first weeks of his son’s life – now that he is a little more adjusted, he uses Chatgpt to ask more general questions about children’s development stages.

“I mean, clearly, people were able to take care of baby without pussy for a long time,” said Altman. “I don’t know how I would have done that.”

Obviously, it is not fundamentally different from the questions on Google on Google on babies, which even the most well -prepared parents have been doing for decades. But, given who is Altman, his choice of internet tool to use is not a surprise.

However, when hallucination There remains a challenge for AI products, it can be concerned to imagine that relying so strongly on an AI cat for responses to baby care.

But parents are known to turn to many dubious sources of information in the middle of the night. My colleagues with children describe Google’s “backless pit” and the Mines field of Parental Facebook groups. Is Chatgpt really very different than to follow someone’s advice that insists that you are a negligent goalkeeper if you do not base your baby’s bedtime on the current moon phase?

Perhaps the idea that parents use AI in search of breeding responses is less a “primary alarm sound” than the idea of ​​very young children who use it, which Altman also discussed.

“There is this video that has always remained with me a baby, or a little little one, with one of these old brilliant magazines [tapping] THE [cover]”Said Altman. The child thought that the magazine was an iPad. “Children born now will simply think that the world always had an extremely intelligent AI.”

The former OpenAi science communicator, Andrew Mayne, who interviewed Altman, recalled having seen a publication on the social networks of a parent who used the vocal mode of Chatgpt to speak to his child of his obsessions.

“He got tired of talking to his child of Thomas The Tank Engine, so he put Chatgpt in vocal mode … An hour later, the child still talks about Thomas the train,” said Mayne.

“Children love vocal mode,” prohibits Altman.

While today’s parents turn to Chatgpt for all kinds of similar uses, it will probably end up reflecting the same repetitive discourse around the “iPad Kid” generation (yes, it is probably bad to let your child look at hours and hours of “cocomelon”; no, it is not just to expect that parents occupy the time of their children 24/7).

But the media for existing children are at least, for the moment, created by a team of humans, while Chatgpt policies recommends that it is not used by children under the age of 13. He has no verified parental command mode. Even Altman is aware of the risks, he said.

“It’s not going to be good. There will be problems,” said Altman. “People will develop these somewhat problematic, or perhaps very problematic parasocial relationships, and society will have to understand new railing.”

Altman is right. We do not fully know the effect of allowing children to speak to a large language model of Thomas The Tank Engine for an hour. But in the end, Altman is the head of a massive company spending billions and billions of dollars in the hope of building an AI that is smarter than humans, and he never forgets that in his messaging.

“The advantages will be great!” Said Altman. “Society in general is good for understanding how to alleviate the drawbacks.”