Father’s little helper
Just how does he do it all? Every time I look at the news, Sam Altman’s face seems to be staring back at me. The CEO of OpenAI, a well-known workaholic, is constantly in the public eye explaining how AI will probably cure cancer and transform the social contract and generally change the world. While doing all that he’s reportedly gearing up for OpenAI to file for a stock market listing valuing the company at $1tn, as soon as next year. And he’s also a new dad: Altman and his husband, Oliver Mulherin, welcomed their first child into the world in February. So he’s got a lot on his plate.
The billionaire does have a little bit of help though, and he’s not afraid to admit it. On Monday Altman made his late-night debut on Jimmy Fallon’s The Tonight Show, where he waxed lyrical about how helpful ChatGPT has been in helping him raise his son.
“I cannot imagine having gone through figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT,” Altman gushed to Fallon. Perhaps a little self-awareness crept in at that moment because he added: “Clearly, people did it for a long time – no problem … but I have relied on it so much.”
How exactly does Altman use ChatGPT to help him figure out “how to raise a newborn?” Well, he told Fallon, once he asked the large language model: “Why does my kid stop dropping his pizza on the floor and laughing? [sic]” Altman didn’t explain what ChatGPT answered, but I imagine it was along the lines of: because he is a kid and that’s what kids do.
Another moment when ChatGPT helped Altman along his parenting journey, we learned, was when he felt a little insecure after another parent boasted about their six-month-old crawling. Altman told Fallon that he then ran to the bathroom and asked AI if it was “okay” that his son wasn’t crawling yet; ChatGPT offered some soothing words of wisdom.
Fallon is not a journalist. His job isn’t to ask tough questions, it’s to cackle every few minutes and slap his hands on his desk. Still, it would have been nice if the late night host had spent just a couple of minutes asking one of the most powerful men in the world a few tough questions instead of just letting Altman do PR for himself and OpenAI.
He could have asked Altman, for example, about his appearance on the OpenAI podcast earlier this year, when the CEO noted that people have a “very high degree of trust in ChatGPT, which is interesting because, like, AI hallucinates. It should be the tech that you don’t trust that much”.
And if Fallon didn’t want to go deep into the thorny issues of AI hallucinations and AI psychosis, he could have at least investigated Altman’s child-rearing arrangements a little more. Fallon could have asked Altman, for example, if his husband did all the caregiving, or if he happened to have a nanny.
Altman and his husband have never made any public comments about having a nanny, to be clear. And they are, of course, entitled to keep their private…
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