OpenAI CEO Altman dismisses Moltbook as likely fad, backs the tech behind it

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman ‍on Tuesday played down the viral AI social network Moltbook as a likely fad, but he said the ⁠technology that let bots act on their own offered a glimpse of the future.

Altman delivered his remarks at the Cisco AI Summit in San Francisco, as tech leaders weighed in on the Reddit-like site where artificial intelligence-powered ‌bots appear to ‌swap code and gossip about their human owners.

The network started off as a niche experiment late last month but has become ‌the center of a growing debate on how close computers are to possessing human-like intelligence.