Bret Taylor, board chair at OpenAI and CEO of AI agent startup Sierra, was requested in a current interview with The Verge whether or not he agreed with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s declaration that “somebody goes to lose an exceptional sum of money in AI.”
Taylor echoed Altman’s sentiments, suggesting that we’re certainly in an AI bubble — however like Altman, he didn’t sound too nervous about it.
“I believe it’s each true that AI will rework the financial system, and I believe it should, just like the web, create big quantities of financial worth sooner or later,” Taylor mentioned. “I believe we’re additionally in a bubble, and lots of people will lose some huge cash. I believe each are completely true on the identical time, and there’s a variety of historic precedent for each of these issues being true on the identical time.”
Particularly, Taylor in contrast at the moment’s AI panorama to the dot-com bubble of the late ‘90s. Whereas many corporations failed when the bubble burst, he argued that “all of the individuals in 1999 have been form of proper.”
