‘Kid-pilled’ Sam Altman ‘constantly’ asked ChatGPT questions about his newborn

For hundreds of thousands of years of human existence, an impossible question has confused our kind: why is the baby crying?!

Sam Altman, who is both the father of a 3 -month old and CEO of OpenAi, jumped up OpenAi’s new podcast Today to talk about how his company influences his experience with paternity. Altman, who describes himself as’ extreme child-pilt ‘, said he used’ constant ‘chatgpt to ask questions about babies’ behavior during the first few weeks of his son-now’s life he is a little more arranged, he uses chatgpt to ask more general questions about the development stages of children.

“I mean, clearly, people have long been able to take care of babies without chatgpt,” said Altman. “I don’t know how I would have done that.”

This is of course not fundamentally different from destroyed questions about babies, something that even the most well -prepared parents have been doing for decades. But given who Altman is, his choice of internet tool to use is no surprise.

Still, if Hallucination remains a challenge for AI products, it can imagine to imagine that they are so serious about a chat AI for baby care.

But it is known that in the middle of the night, parents turn a questionable source for information. My colleagues with children describe the “bottomless pit” of Google and the minefield of Facebook groups of education. Is Chatgpt really different from following the advice of someone online who is it that you are a neglected caregiver if you do not base your baby’s bedtime on the current phase of the moon?

Perhaps the idea of ​​parents who use AI is looking for childly adherent answers less a “primary alarm bell” than the idea of ​​very young children who use it, that Altman also discussed.

“There is this video that has always stayed with me on a baby, or a small toddler, with one of those old shiny magazines [tapping] the [cover]”Said Altman. The child thought the magazine was an iPad.” Children who are born now will simply think that the world always had extremely smart AI. “

Former OpenAI Science Communicator Andrew Mayne, who interviewed Altman, remembered that he saw a message on social media from a parent who used Chatgpt’s voices to talk to his child about his obsessions.

“He was tired of talking to his child about Thomas the tank engine, so he put chatgpt in speech mode … An hour later the child is still talking about Thomas the train,” Mayne said cheerfully.

“Children love speech mode,” Altman intervened.

Because today’s parents turn in chatgpt for all kinds of similar applications, this will probably be a reflection of the same repetitive discourse around the “iPad kid” generation (yes, it’s probably bad to let your child watch hours and hours of “cocomelon”; no, it is not fair to expect their children to be 24/7).

But at least the media of existing children are, for now, created by a team of people, while Chatgpt’s own policy Recommend that it is not used by children under the age of 13. It has no screened mode for parental permission. Even Altman is aware of the risks, he said.

“It won’t all be good. There will be problems,” said Altman. “People will develop these somewhat problematic or perhaps very problematic parasocial relationships, and society will have to come up with new crash barriers.”

Altman is right. We do not fully know the effect of having children talking with a large language model about Thomas the tank engine for an hour. But at the end of the day Altman is the head of a huge company that issues billions and billions of dollars in the hope of building AI that is smarter than people, and he never forgets that in his messages.

“The benefits will be huge!” Said Altman. “Society is generally good at figuring out how to reduce the disadvantages.”