Sam Altman 仍在力推用 ChatGPT 辅助育儿

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman 周五兴致勃勃地分享了一个他称为“很酷的使用案例”的想法。他发帖称，家长可以“连接家庭日历，并向该公司的新产品 ChatGPT Work说明孩子们的兴趣”，然后“每天早晨在开车送孩子上学时，让它制作一档播客，聊聊其中一个孩子当天下午的足球比赛、另一个孩子即将到来的生日、一些新闻等等”。

Altman 的帖子引发了大量网友翻白眼式的反应，其中包括动画剧集《怪诞小镇》（“Gravity Falls”）创作者 Alex Hirsch 的一句简短回应：“为什么不直接和孩子说话？”

Hirsch 的问题似乎比 Altman 的原帖传播得更加广泛——截至周六上午，Altman 的评论被转发约 300 次，获得约 9,600 个赞；而 Hirsch 的回应则被转发 9,000 次，并收获 122,000 个赞。

这并不是科技 CEO 第一次承诺，AI 能让用户——尤其是在早晨通勤时的用户——免于面对人类体验中的混乱和低效。去年，微软 CEO Satya Nadella 表示，他在早晨开车时已不再收听自己最喜欢的播客；取而代之的是，他会向 AI 聊天机器人询问这些播客的内容。

Altman 的帖子也呼应了他过去关于育儿的言论，最突出的一次是在他做客《吉米·法伦今夜秀》时，他宣称：“我无法想象，在没有 ChatGPT 的情况下，我该如何摸索着养育一个新生儿。”（不过他也很快承认：“显然，人们很长时间以来都没问题地做到了这一点。”）

争取家长用户似乎是 OpenAI 的优先事项。该公司最近发布了一则产品经理职位招聘，寻求具备为家长和家庭构建信任敏感型消费者体验经验的人才。与此同时，Meta 正在测试一款由 AI 驱动的睡前故事应用。

不过，尽管 OpenAI 已经为家长新增安全功能，它也正面临来自家长和家庭的多起诉讼。这些诉讼指称，ChatGPT 在亲人的妄想和自杀事件中发挥了作用。（该公司表示，正在“持续改进我们的模型在敏感互动中的回应方式”。）

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman seemed excited to share what he called a “cool use case” on Friday, posting that parents could “connect your family calendars and explain your kids’ interests” to the company’s new product ChatGPT Work, then “every morning for the drive to school, have it make a podcast that talks about one kid’s soccer game that afternoon, one kid’s upcoming birthday, some news, etc.”

Altman’s post prompted lots of virtual eye-rolling, including a simple response from Alex Hirsch, creator of the animated series “Gravity Falls”: “What if you just talked to your children”?

Hirsch’s question seems to have gone even more viral than Altman’s initial post — while Altman’s comment has been reposted around 300 times and liked around 9,600 times (as of Saturday morning), Hirsch’s response has been reposted 9,000 times and received 122,000 likes.

This isn’t the first time a tech CEO has promised that AI can shield users — and specifically users’ morning commutes — from the messiness and inefficiency of human experience. Last year, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said he’d stopped listening his favorite podcasts during his morning drive; instead, he asked an AI chatbot about those podcasts.

Altman’s post also echoed comments he’s made about parenting in the past, most notably when he appeared on “The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon” and declared, “I cannot imagine having gone through figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT.” (Though he was also quick to acknowledge, “Clearly, people did it for a long time, no problem.”)

Getting parents on-board seems to be a priority for OpenAI, which recently posted a job listing for a product manager with experience building trust-sensitive consumer experiences for parents and families. Meta, meanwhile, is testing an AI-powered app that tells bedtime stories.

But while OpenAI has added safety features for parents, it also faces multiple lawsuits from parents and families alleging that ChatGPT played a role in loved ones’ delusions and suicides. (The company has said it’s “continuously improving how our models respond in sensitive interactions.”)