Sam Altman’s lesser-known crypto project wants to scan the world’s eyeballs
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If the AI that Sam Altman is building works, it’ll eventually break the global economy (in a good way, he hopes). And when that happens, he’s got another project, Worldcoin, in the works to help fix it.
If the AI that Sam Altman is building works, it’ll eventually break the global economy (in a good way, he hopes). And when that happens, he’s got another project, Worldcoin, in the works to help fix it. Through OpenAI, the privately owned company behind ChatGPT, Altman is pursuing the holy grail of tech, known as artificial general intelligence, or AGI, which he believes will be “the best tool humanity has yet created.” Let’s play along for a moment and take him at his word: It’s 2034, and AGI has freed us all from our cubicles to live a life of leisure, safe from pre-AGI headaches like disease and war. We eat grapes and write poetry or … binge Netflix and gossip. Heaven! (And just for today, I’m going to resist my urge to pontificate about the inevitability of human struggle, or what it means to experience pleasure without its opposite.) Taking even the most optimistic view of what AGI will do to the world, there’s an unavoidable problem that when the bots become smarter than us, it’ll be hard to tell who’s a bot and who’s a human. Right now, our best line of defense are those annoying CAPTCHA puzzles, and bots are already figuring out ways around them. That’s the problem that Worldcoin is trying to solve. Trouble is, the solution sounds super dystopian.
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