Lewis, known for his skepticism regarding financial and technological hype, pushed back with a question that cuts to the core of the current artificial intelligence frenzy. “I said, well, if your machine is so smart, why don’t you have your machine write the biography?” Lewis recalled suggesting that Altman dump all his Slack channels, emails, and personal data into the model to let it tell his story.
Altman’s response was surprisingly candid: “He said, it’d be a really bad book.” When pressed on when the AI would be capable of such a feat, Altman estimated “maybe a couple of years.” This led to a unique challenge between the author and the tech mogul.
When Lewis and Altman agree, at some point in the future, that ChatGPT is finally smart enough to write a good book, Lewis said he wanted to “challenge it to a contest. I will come back in, and we will pour everything into it. We’ll let it write its book, but I’ll do my book alongside it. And we will just compare whose book is better.”
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Be a lot more interesting to write it in about 18 months time, when the shit has hit the fan after the bubble has gone pop.