Comment Comment by gdb (I work at OpenAI.)It comes down to whether you believe AGI is achievable.We've talked about why we think it might be: https://medium.com/syncedreview/openai-founder-short-term-ag..., https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHCSNsLKHfMAnd we certainly have more of a plan for building it than warp drives :).EDIT: I personally think the case for near-term AGI is strong enough that it'd be hard for me work on any other problem — and find it important to put in place guardrails like https://openai.com/blog/openai-lp/ and https://openai.com/charter/.Even if AGI turns out to be out of reach, we'll still be creating increasingly powerful AI technologies — which I think pretty clearly have the potential to alter society and require special care and thought. parent gdb 7 years ago
It comes down to whether you believe AGI is achievable.
We've talked about why we think it might be: https://medium.com/syncedreview/openai-founder-short-term-ag..., https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHCSNsLKHfM
And we certainly have more of a plan for building it than warp drives :).
EDIT: I personally think the case for near-term AGI is strong enough that it'd be hard for me work on any other problem — and find it important to put in place guardrails like https://openai.com/blog/openai-lp/ and https://openai.com/charter/.
Even if AGI turns out to be out of reach, we'll still be creating increasingly powerful AI technologies — which I think pretty clearly have the potential to alter society and require special care and thought.