Is Mind-Reading AI Coming Soon? My First Real AI Nervous Moment

Today on the James Altucher Show. Data is oil. Data is the gold of this AI revolution. Imagine you have an AI that has all of everybody's thoughts also. So it's not just learning on tweets and texts. It's loading on the 60,000 or so thoughts times 8,000,000,000 people that are thought each day around the world. This sounds like amazing science fiction and magic and everything that one could ever have dreamed of, or it could be the end of the world. This isn't your average business podcast, and he's not your average host. This is the James Altucher show. So something just happened, which for the first time really makes me question whether AI is going to be a utopia or a dystopia or even what's called a newtopia. So a utopia is a perfect society. A dystopia is where technology is used by government or corporations to control everyone, sort of like 1984 or the Hunger Games. And a newtopia is somewhere in the middle where a government tries to use technology to make a perfect society, but really they're controlling things and are corrupt behind the scenes. And look, I'm an optimist. I tend to think that every advance in technology is worthwhile to society. There's gonna be bad consequences, but the good consequences will usually outweigh the bad. So nuclear energy is a great example where, of course, the consequences are devastating on nuclear energy. We've seen this with the two droppings of nuclear bombs in Japan in World War two, but also nuclear energy could potentially make cheap energy for the entire world. And we've seen this with the Internet where you could look at lots of bad consequences of the Internet, but overall, the Internet has improved the quality of life of everyone. And look. Right now, we're getting information about the revolution that is happening in Iran simply because of Internet connectivity, And things like that are invaluable for a free and democratic world. But AI, there's been a lot of nervousness. Is it gonna change society for the better, make new cancer drugs, give us all the information we want at our fingertips, or is there opportunities for AI to turn into kind of, like, this dystopian Terminator, Blade Runner kind of society? So this is the event that just occurred this morning that makes me nervous, and I'm gonna explain every aspect of it and why we really need to think about this. And, again, I am not a pessimist. I have never once looked at AI in a pessimistic way, but I just wanna raise the question. So OpenAI, which is the giant AI company that powers ChatGPT, for instance, they just put $250,000,000, a quarter of $1,000,000,000 into a new company called Merge Labs. And so before I describe all the details of this, there's a couple of things that already are weird. First up, OpenAI itself just raised $20,000,000,000. So why is it interesting that OpenAI raised …