Bret Taylor, board chair at OpenAI and CEO of AI agent startup Sierra, was requested in a recent interview with The Verge whether or not he agreed with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s declaration that “somebody goes to lose an outstanding 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 fearful about it.
“I believe it’s each true that AI will remodel the economic system, and I believe it’s going to, just like the web, create large quantities of financial worth sooner or later,” Taylor stated. “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 number of historic precedent for each of these issues being true on the identical time.”
Particularly, Taylor in contrast right this moment’s AI panorama to the dot-com bubble of the late ‘90s. Whereas many firms failed when the bubble burst, he argued that “all of the individuals in 1999 had been form of proper.”
