Dear peasants: Sam Altman on how some of his rivals sell AI

Sam Altman told podcaster David Senra that the AI sector has been overly optimistic about disruption timelines, noting that after GPT-4’s 2023 release adoption has been slow because “the economy has so much inertia.” He likened the current state to pre-iPhone smartphones, calling the lack of a transformative product a “product failure,” and warned that concentrating AI power in a few entities threatens both control and human autonomy.