Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, is at the center of discussions regarding the development of ChatGPT. After filing a letter signed by major industry players, including Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, urging the company to stop developing artificial intelligence better than the recently unveiled GPT-4, Altman said. decided to give his opinion on the matter. And it’s not diametrically opposed.
Like the greats who put their name and signature on the letter, Sam Altman also has his doubts about promoting models like ChatGPT.
“I’m going to try to be honest. Am I doing something good or very bad?” commented the general manager in an interview with The New York Times in 2019.
Even in 2023 and with the progress made, Altman still isn’t sure.
“Expectations for these systems – while all we hope will be fine in the long term – are completely out of control in the short term,” he told the NYT in a recent interview.
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During the aforementioned publication’s conversation with Altman, the OpenAI CEO paraphrased Robert Oppenheimer, the head of the Manhattan Project tasked with developing the atomic bomb, several times. Here he added that “technology happens because it can” and ChatGPT is an example of that.
Thus, Sam Altman believes that artificial intelligence will take place in one form or another, as Bill Gates has already mentioned. Will it turn the world into a wasteland or the long-awaited utopia inherent in supersonic aircraft? To that end, we still need to explore the damage it can cause in order to understand how to counter or contain it. While the manager believes we still have time to consider this, we also need to remember that this is a timely position relative to the business.
OpenAI board advisor Kelly Sims told the NYT that “in a conversation, you’re on both sides of the debate,” referring to Sam Altman and recent concerns about the growth of ChatGPT and similar technologies. .
However, the OpenAI CEO’s internal balance leans towards the more positive side that ChatGPT has to offer. Additionally, through a contract with investors such as Microsoft, the OpenAI board reserves the right to discontinue the model at any time should the need arise.
See also: Bill Gates says it’s a bad idea to contain more powerful AI models than GPT-4.
