Varun Mayya: Highly Pessimistic About AI's Impact Over Next Decade
Varun Mayya · Ep #4 | WTF is ChatGPT: Heaven or Hell? | w/ Nikhil, Varun Mayya, Tanmay, Umang & Aprameya · Nikhil Kamath · May 14, 2023 · at 2:09
Varun Mayya, founder of Scenes and content creator, introduces his baseline stance on artificial intelligence during a panel discussion on ChatGPT hosted by Nikhil Kamath.
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“I just want to warn everyone, including the people watching that I quickly switch on Doomer mode. So I'm really pessimistic about What's going to happen to the world in the next 10 years?”
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