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15 facts from 2 episodes, in date order. These are what speakers said on the shows, each linked to the moment it was said. They aren't independently verified.
2023
Fortune published a cover story by Jeremy Kahn on OpenAI and the creation of ChatGPT in January 2023.
“Fortune assigned me a large cover story about OpenAI and the process that had led to the creation of ChatGPT, which came out in January 2023.”
2024
Kahn does not expect the algorithmic innovation needed for AGI within three to five years, but thinks it is possible within ten to twenty years.
“I do not see it imminently on the horizon in the next three to five years. I think if you went out ten years, perhaps, or certainly if you went out twenty years”
2024
Kahn said AI agents did not yet exist in 2024 but could debut before year's end or early the next year, handling tasks like purchasing and reservations.
“AI agents we don't really have yet, but everybody says they're working on them and there's some indication that they may be debuting even before the end of this year.”
2024
Jeremy Kahn is the author of the book Mastering AI: A Survival Guide to Our Superpowered Future.
“He's also the author of a book, Mastering AI, a survival guide to our superpowered future.”
Undated
Kahn says some studies suggest AI chatbots give emotional uplift to lonely people, but none has compared them against having human friends.
“if you really are a lonely person, that if you have no one in your life to talk to, that having the AI chatbot is potentially a positive”
Undated
Kahn recommends that humans write first drafts and then have AI critique them, to avoid de-skilling.
“the human should always do the first draft. Instead of outsourcing the first draft always to the machine, and then you act as the editor of that draft”
Undated
Kahn says he did not use AI to write Mastering AI, only occasionally for phrase finding, because it could not match his conversational voice.
“I did not use it to write the book. And people are always really surprised and they say, why not?”
Undated
Jeremy Kahn is the AI editor at Fortune magazine and writes its weekly newsletter Eye on AI.
“He's the AI editor at Fortune magazine. At Fortune, he writes its weekly newsletter Eye on AI.”
Undated
Kahn says Google's search links prompt users to consider where information comes from, which generative AI chatbot answers do not.
“one of the good things about Google is at least you have these links, so you have to think about, you know, where's the information coming from?”
Undated
Kahn says AI companies have little incentive to design their products to discourage overuse.
“the companies developing the product have no incentive really to get you not to use it.”
Undated
Kahn says he does not believe AI will cause mass unemployment, though he expects most jobs to change.
“I'm not a big believer in the idea that we're gonna see mass unemployment from AI.”
Undated
Kahn predicts that today's need for prompt engineering skills will shrink within about ten years as AI systems improve.
“I don't think that's gonna necessarily be true in ten years, because I think we will have perfected away some of that, optimized away some of the need for that.”
Undated
Kahn says NASA found it could keep astronauts vigilant around automated systems only by introducing faults at random intervals.
“Except by introducing faults at like random intervals so that the people were constantly on guard, which was an interesting insight.”
Undated
Kahn names drug discovery as perhaps the biggest current opportunity for AI.
“I think drug discovery is maybe the biggest opportunity”
Undated
Kahn says his first career ambition was to become an archaeologist.
“I wanted to be an archeologist at one point.”
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