Sam Altman: "Very Wrong" on AI's Rapid World Impact

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman now admits he was too optimistic about how quickly AI would disrupt businesses. He expected the impact to be visible much sooner, especially after GPT-4's release in 2023. What's interesting is that businesses and consumers have adopted the technology at a slower pace than he anticipated. Altman thought software businesses would become vulnerable almost immediately. He says the technology itself isn't the biggest obstacle. Instead, the economy has more inertia than he expected. Companies and consumers tend to stick with familiar suppliers and processes. The bottom line is that this slower transition could give companies, workers, and society more time to adjust to increasingly capable AI systems.