How odd. Since yesterday I've bin thinking about him, that he might become the greatest con man of the century. Something along the lines, that, once OpenAI has archived AGI, he will keep it to himself in the sense that it will only be able to do what he wants us to be able to do with it, and to shape it so that it benefits him and only him.
Then there's also the possibility that, if he starts to feel "not liked" by the population, that he'll go into full Elon Musk mode and use his power to become the greatest pal of Elon and Trump and use the tools to suppress what he doesn't like, as a retaliation for the lack of love. If you look at his interviews, he barely shows friendly emotions, as if he's got some empathy-problem.
He wants to be the next Mark Zuckerberg or Bill Gates. But all his endeavors have this feeling of him taking advantage of real hackers to steal the spotlight. Like, he is the smallest contributor for the success of ChatGPT but became the face of OpenAI globally.
Not coincidentally, since many people more important than him left OpenAI, they lost the lead in LLMs development and Claude/Anthropic seems to be growing way faster.
I find it sad the current generation of techno-rich people. We had Jobs and Gates , who ultimately were geeks of their trades. Then (next gen) we have Bezos, Zuckerberg who, are still a geek by heart, but also a bit of sociopaths.
Now you have Musk, Altman... who plainly are full batshit crazy.
> ... once OpenAI has archived AGI, he will keep it to himself in the sense that it will only be able to do what he wants us to be able to do with it, and to shape it so that it benefits him and only him.
Once? Let's first worry about "if" rather than "when".
But if it does... the thing about AGI is that it will decide for itself what it wants to do. It won't be controlled like that by Altman or anyone else.
Then there's also the possibility that, if he starts to feel "not liked" by the population, that he'll go into full Elon Musk mode and use his power to become the greatest pal of Elon and Trump and use the tools to suppress what he doesn't like, as a retaliation for the lack of love. If you look at his interviews, he barely shows friendly emotions, as if he's got some empathy-problem.
It could become quite dangerous.