OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, who has been using his most famous product to help manage life as an actual parent.
I literally can not imagine having figured out how to be a parent to a newborn without ChatGPT,’ Altman told Jimmy Fallon while appearing on NBC’s flagship late night talk show. “Obviously, people did it for ages — no worries.
It seems kinda bad to me make the tech that knows everything, ask things like, ‘Why did my child not stop throwing pizza on the ground and chuckling?'”
It was like a couple of months ago, Sam Altman said, that he had been talking at a party to someone who was also raising a newborn. Their six-month-old was “crawling all over the place,” the parents told Altman. Altman worried that his son didn’t follow suit.
And I was like, do I need to take my kid to the doctor tomorrow morning, and I ran to the bathroom. He writes what he entered in ChatGPT, ‘Is that OK?’.”
OpenAI’s chatbot replied “with a very good answer, which was naturally,” his son was developing “normally” Altman said.
That’s very specific, the answer is actually personalized, ChatGPT gets to know you, and by the way, you’re the CEO of OpenAI, you probably are around all these high-achieving people. Maybe you shouldn’t project that onto your kid, just chill, and he’s gonna be fine, whatever,” Altman said about the answer.
However, Fallon did not discuss OpenAI’s recent problems. According to reports last week, Altman privately told employees that there was a “code red” and that the company should devote more resources to ChatGPT because rivals, including Google, are now making great strides with their competing AI models.
Rather than the meat of more serious late-night fare, Altman’s debut was of the light variety that populates such hours of TV. At some point in the interview, even, Fallon asked Altman to clarify what ChatGPT is for the benefit of viewers who may be watching with the host’s dad (and indeed the host’s own, apparently).
In another session, Altman has previously spoken about how parenthood introduced another angle to his worldview regarding AI.
During a January episode of the “Rethinking” podcast with psychologist Adam Grant, Altman said, “My kid is never going to be smarter than AI when they grow up.” “Kids from now on will only know an AI-filled world.”
OpenAI CEO and his husband, Oliver Mulherin, announced the birth of their son on X in February; the couple kept a relatively low profile despite Altman’s prominence.
And when Altman did not answer, Fallon, the father of two daughters, joked, “Did you not have a child when they crawled? Was the crawling part not as enjoyable for you?
“So mine was Dancing with the Stars at seven months,” Fallon replied. “Semi-finalist.”
