9 years ago, technology entrepreneur Sam Altman made a prediction.

He said it would take a long time, before humans had to worry about losing their jobs

to artificial intelligence.

Here he is, speaking at a Wall Street Journal conference at the time.

Computers and humans are very good at very different things.

So a computer doctor will outcrunch the numbers and do a better job than a human on looking

to massive amount of data and saying this, but on cases that require judgment or creativity

or empathy, we are nowhere near any computer system that is any good at this.

But now, almost a decade later, Altman and the company he co-founded, OpenAI, have released

an AI chatbot called ChatGPT, that can do a lot of things humans can.

It can write emails, business plans, even computer code, things that nine years ago

didn't seem possible.

And this week, Altman returned to that same conference, the Wall Street Journal's tech

live, and spoke with our colleague Joanna Stern, who asked him about that prediction.

Does 2023 Sam agree?

I'm partially right and partially wrong.

Okay.

Could have been worse.

What's your outlook now?

Welcome to the journal, our show about money, business, and power.

I'm Kate Limbaugh, it's Friday, October 20th.

Coming up on the show, a conversation with the leaders of OpenAI.

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