Joe Rogan is anxious concerning the speedy rise of synthetic intelligence the way it will impact humanity transferring ahead, and mentioned the highest firms are run by “odd folks” like OpenAI boss Sam Altman.
Rogan, throughout the Friday episode of his fashionable podcast, mentioned the person behind ChatGPT reminded him extra of a crafty politician than an everyday man when he appeared on his present in late 2023.
“I don’t have something in opposition to Sam Altman — I do know Elon Musk doesn’t like him — however once I had him in right here, I used to be like, it’s like I’m speaking to a politician who’s in the course of a presidential [election] cycle. The place they’re very cautious with what they are saying,” Rogan mentioned. “Every part has been vetted by a spotlight group, and also you don’t actually get an actual human response.”
Rogan mentioned Altman’s solutions have been “all bulls–t” and that finally, after his look, he was “going to depart [Rogan’s studio] and hold creating this f–king monster that’s going to destroy the human race, and never let onto it, in any respect.”
A second later, Rogan added there may be quite a lot of “deception” round how a lot Altman is making from OpenAI. It was not all negativity from Rogan in the direction of Altman, although — he mentioned Altman got here throughout as a “very good man.”
OpenAI didn’t instantly reply to TheWrap’s request for touch upon Friday afternoon.
The UFC and podcasting star’s feedback have been made throughout a dialog with Roman Yampolskiy, a pc scientist who has written concerning the potential risks of AI in his 2024 e-book “AI: Unexplainable, Unpredictable, Uncontrollable.”
Yampolskiy advised Rogan he believes AI will attain “superintelligence” — the place fashions like ChatGPT, X’s Grok and Google’s Gemini surpass people in all types of mental skills — within the subsequent few years.
He added there are just a few alternative ways AI can upend the world, from the much-discussed chance AI results in mass unemployment, to an excellent greater concern — the know-how is just not aligned with mankind and decides to wipe out people.
“Proper now, the bigger AI labs are working this experiment on 8 billion folks. They don’t have any consent,” Yampolskiy mentioned. “They can not get consent, [and] no person can consent, as a result of we don’t perceive what we’re agreeing to.”
Rogan, earlier within the podcast, agreed with Yampolskiy concerning the potential risks of AI, saying “it should be confronted” earlier than it’s too late.
You possibly can watch the complete dialog between Rogan and Yampolskiy under:
