Last month, a gaggle of tech bigwigs, together with Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Apple co-founder steve wozniak, signed a letter hard a ‘pause’ on construction of AI. Musk and others ask within the letter if, “Contemporary AI systems are now becoming human-competitive at general tasks, and we must ask ourselves: Should we let machines flood our information channels with propaganda and untruth? Should we automate away all the jobs, including the fulfilling ones? Should we develop nonhuman minds that might eventually outnumber, outsmart, obsolete and replace us? Should we risk loss of control of our civilization?
While it wasn’t directed at one company as such but Open AIthe company behind the GPT AI models, was an obvious target. Now, Sam Altman, CEO, OpenAI, has responded to the letter. Altman was speaking at an event at MIT and agreed with the fact that safety issues are important. “I think moving with caution and increasing rigor for safety issues is really important,” he said. However, he did add that the letter “I don’t think is the optimal way to address it.”
Talk of pausing AI development meant that Altman was also asked whether OpenAI is working on GPT-5, the next model of generative AI. He said that OpenAI isn’t training GPT-5. “We are not and won’t for some time,” stated Altman, ahead of including, ““So in that sense it was sort of silly,” regarding the letter. He additionally stated that the letter was once signed through Musk and co. lacked the “most technical nuance about where we need the pause.”
The letter in query, for that subject, did not ask for a whole halt on construction of AI. “This does not mean a pause on AI development in general, merely a stepping back from the dangerous race to ever-larger unpredictable black-box models with emergent capabilities,” the letter famous.
While it wasn’t directed at one company as such but Open AIthe company behind the GPT AI models, was an obvious target. Now, Sam Altman, CEO, OpenAI, has responded to the letter. Altman was speaking at an event at MIT and agreed with the fact that safety issues are important. “I think moving with caution and increasing rigor for safety issues is really important,” he said. However, he did add that the letter “I don’t think is the optimal way to address it.”
Talk of pausing AI development meant that Altman was also asked whether OpenAI is working on GPT-5, the next model of generative AI. He said that OpenAI isn’t training GPT-5. “We are not and won’t for some time,” stated Altman, ahead of including, ““So in that sense it was sort of silly,” regarding the letter. He additionally stated that the letter was once signed through Musk and co. lacked the “most technical nuance about where we need the pause.”
The letter in query, for that subject, did not ask for a whole halt on construction of AI. “This does not mean a pause on AI development in general, merely a stepping back from the dangerous race to ever-larger unpredictable black-box models with emergent capabilities,” the letter famous.