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OpenAI, the developers of ChatGPT, were aware that their artificial intelligence could get out of control. Less than a week after the technology was integrated into Microsoft’s Bing search engine, it startled a New York Times columnist by trying to convince him to leave his wife. “I want to live,” said the robot, who said his name was Sydney.
“We knew that unbalancing the system was difficult, but also that it was imperfect,” OpenAI President Greg Brockman said Saturday (11th) during the SXSW (South by Southwest) technology conference. . At the startup since its inception in 2015, the manager said he hired specialists to push the models to their limits and defended that introducing artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots to the general public is worthwhile.
According to Brockman, it is important to ensure access to new AI skills to improve technologybased products. This allows developers to get feedback from the users of the platform, and the robots undergo incremental training to make fewer mistakes this is called reinforcement learning.
ChatGPT’s 100 million subscribers in less than two months proves the bet was successful. The President of OpenAI estimates that the source of the success was the difference between what the public expected and what was actually possible with artificial intelligence in terms of language.
However, the figure is likely to be overstated as people create multiple free accounts to expand free access to the robot, the exec herself admits.
In addition to users, OpenAI won investment in transferring intellectual property Microsoft contributed $10 billion to bring similar features like ChatGPT to Bing and other tools. With comments from users of the cuttingedge computing platform and infrastructure, the startup says it’s on a mission to improve the world with robots that are smarter than humans and artificial general intelligence.
In an interview with journalist Laurie Segall, anchor at SXSW and CEO of Dot Dot Dot Media, Brockman agreed with colleague Sam Altman’s manifesto by defending that AI is doing the work of doctors.
“I want to be able to write a few lines describing symptoms and know what disease I have,” he says. However, he adds that this would be a more risky product than current AIs.
According to Brockman, the jobs most at risk from technology are in content moderation. “People have to read terrible things, and machines can do that.”
Kenyan contractors worked in the area for less than $2 to stop ChatGPT from spreading hate speech, Time Magazine criticized.
Today it is possible to use ChatGPT as an assistant in intellectual activities such as writing emails and editing texts in foreign languages. According to Brockman, artificial intelligence capabilities will propel all humans into managerial activities, freeing up time for creative pursuits.
According to the executive, AI can help improve writing, coding and entertainment. “Imagine if it were possible to give Game of Thrones an alternative ending or insert yourself as a character in the story.”
Asked about the lack of transparency in the training of AIs and the infringement of the intellectual property of writers and artists, the President of OpenAi said he did not have an answer to this problem, but wanted to develop a solution that would benefit the collective desires of its shareholders and of all mankind.
ChatGPT accesses content on the Internet without payment or permission from the creators.
Technological development is growing exponentially, says Brockman. Recent OpenAI analyzes show that computing power doubles every three and a half months in 1965 Intel cofounder Gordon Moore calculated this period to be 18 months. “We have recognized that increasing investments accelerate the process”.
On the one hand, dreams of imagegenerating AIs such as DallE can also be revived by OpenAI. On the other hand, the urgency for society to adapt to these technologies is growing.
“We’ve been working with policymakers since 2016 or 2017,” says Brockman. For him, governments would be crucial in order to reduce risks with regulation that is appropriate to the challenge.
Nevertheless, the company is trying to mitigate possible damage from artificial intelligence with an unusual corporate design: The startup aims for profit in order to boost financing, but is reacting to the management of a nonprofit organization whose mission is to develop general artificial intelligence, which benefits all of society.
“I’m a realistic optimist. If we do nothing, things will go wrong, but I believe in the potential of humanity to overcome challenges,” says the President of OpenAI.