OpenAI leader says college courses should only be 2 years old

O co-founder and CEO of OpenAI, Sam Altman, stated at the Internacionalpalooza Technology Conference that four years of university education is too long in the current world, remembering that he himself only spent two years at Stanford University.

Altman believes he spent two years at the university “it was the right amount of time” in your case, stating that it may be the same with other people.

Although I admit that “you learned a lot”, the CEO of OpenAI believes that if he had spent more time taking the university course he would have a “return drastically lower” to your inferior.

“ I think, with the way the world has evolved, we should not spend so much time at the university, but it was still good to meet people, live alone and work on projects”, explained Altman.

How do you remember the Next Web site, Altman left the university in 2005 and collaborated in the creation of Loopt – an application that allowed sharing the location with family and friends. The company was eventually supported by Y Combinator, which helped Altman expand the network of contacts, develop its investments and eventually participate in the foundation of OpenAI.

Sam Altman advocates slowing AI development

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman attended the latest podcast episode Invest Like the Best and said it was time to slow down the development of Artificial Intelligence. The statements contrast with what has been the position defended so far by the leader of the ChatGPT company.

“We may have to slow down the pace of artificial intelligence development to have enough time as a society to adapt to some of these new levels of capacity”, said Altmannoting that you still don't know for sure how this slowdown could be achieved.

The position is somewhat different from what Altman defended a few months ago, notably during his participation in BlackRock's US Infrastructure Summit conference, which took place in March this year.

At this conference, Altman spoke about the fact that Artificial Intelligence is not a very popular technology in the US, saying that it is being blamed for virtually all the problems – including the redundancies that have been made in recent months in technology companies.

However, the CEO of OpenAI considered it important to move forward with regard to the development of Artificial Intelligence, pointing out that a slowdown in pace could mean that the US would be left behind with regard to innovation.

“ If we do not move as fast as other countries in adoption [and Artificial Intelligence], I think we will lose the advantage we have because we are the economic power we are.”, noted Altman at the conference. “ And that depends on how quickly companies adopt it. It depends on how quickly our scientists adopt it, how quickly our government adopts it.”.

The CEO of OpenAI also stated that “this is a unique opportunity in many generations to really improve the economy” and “rewriting some of society’s rules that are not working in the light of this new and incredible source of wealth”.