Between hundreds of thousands of years of human existence, an impossible question has troubled our species: Why is the baby crying?!
Sam Altman, who is both the father of a three-month and general manager of Openai, jumped Openai’s new podcast Today talking about how his company affects his experience with motherhood. Altman, who describes himself as “extremely childish”, said he was “constantly” using Chatgpt to ask questions about babies’ behavior during the first weeks of his son’s life – now that he is a little more resolved, he uses Chatgpt to ask more general questions about children’s development stages.
“I mean, clearly, people could take care of babies without Chatgpt long ago,” Altman said. “I don’t know how I would do that.”
This, obviously, is not fundamentally different from fiercely Googling questions about babies, something that even the best-prepared parents have done for decades. But, considering who is Altman, his choice of online tool to use is not a surprise.
However, when Hallucination There remains a challenge for AI products, it may be about imagining to rely so heavily from chat AI for care.
But it is known that parents turn to many sources discussed for information in the middle of the night. My colleagues with kids describe the “endless pit” of Google, and the minefield of parent Facebook groups. Is Chatgpt really different than taking the advice of someone online who insists that you are a negligent caregiver if you do not base your baby’s bed on the current phase of the moon?
Perhaps the idea of parents using AI looking for children’s answers is less of a “primary alarm bell” then the idea of very young children using it, which Altman also discussed.
“It’s this video that always hit me by a baby, or a little toddler, with one of those old bright magazines [tapping] The screen, “Altman said. The child thought the magazine was iPad.” Children born now will only think that the world always has a very clever ai. ”
Former Openai Communicator Andrew Mayne, who interviewed Altman, remembered to see a post on a parent’s social media, who used Chatgpt’s vocal mode to talk to his child about his obsessions.
“He got tired of talking to his child about Thomas the tank engine, so he put Chatgpt in a vocal mode … an hour later, the child still talks about Thomas the train,” Mayne said cheerfully.
“Children love a vocal mode,” Altman interjected.
As today’s parents turn to Chatgpt for all similar uses, this is likely to end up reflecting the same repeated speech around the “iPad Kid” generation (yes, it’s probably bad to let your child watch hours and hours of “Cokelon”; no, it’s not fair to wait for parents to occupy their child 24/7).
But existing children’s media are at least now created by a team of people, while Chatgpt’s own policies Recommend that it should not be used by children less than 13 years old. It has no controlled parent control mode. Even Altman is aware of the risks, he said.
“Not everything will be good. There will be problems,” Altman said. “People will develop these somewhat problematic, or perhaps very problematic parascient relationships, and society will have to count new guards.”
Altman is correct. We do not fully know the effect of letting children talk to a large language model about Thomas the Tank engine for one hour. But at the end of the day, Altman is the head of a mass company spending billions and billions of dollars with the hope of building a smarter than humans, and he never forgets that in his message.
“The benefits will be terrible!” Altman said. “Society is generally good to calculate how to mitigate the disadvantages.”
