OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently squashed rumors that the company is currently training a fifth version of its popular Generative Pretrained Transformer (GPT) technology. During an MIT event, he clarified that OpenAI is instead focusing on further improving the capabilities of its current GPT-4 model.
This was in response to an open letter that called for the AI development community to pause working on models larger than GPT-4 for six months. According to Altman, the letter lacked essential technical detail and the claim that OpenAI was training GPT-5 was “kind of stupid”.
While Altman said he agreed with the general contents of the letter concerning safety and having models’ actions move in line with human values, it’s apparent that OpenAI is taking a different approach, looking to strengthen its current technology rather than adding to it.
In contrast to the sophisticated GPT-4 technology, Reddit has been inundated with comments generated from ChatGPT, uploaded by numerous bot accounts. Moderators have had a tough time keeping up with the relentless spam, with many subreddits such as r/AskWomen, r/AskEconomics and r/AskPhilosophy unable to keep up. Reddit has gone as far as to ban hundreds of bot accounts, but the spam just continues to increase with bots mostly used for advertising shady items such as illegal narcotics and other types of unverified merchandise.
OpenAI is a research laboratory focusing on the development of advanced artificial intelligence and robotics. Founded by Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, alongside tech entrepreneurs Sam Altman, Ilya Sutskever, Greg Brockman and Wojciech Zaremba, OpenAI has rapidly become a leading research institute on the subject. They are committed to creating general Artificial Intelligence (AI) to benefit humanity and the goal is to progress research towards AI that is both safe and beneficial.
Sam Altman is the CEO of OpenAI and a Y Combinator president. He is an innovator, entrepreneur and investor, with experience in companies such as Airbnb, Dropbox and Pepo. Altman’s previous roles include listed companies He also launched OpenAI Studios in 2020, which works to develop difficult AI projects and he runs a venture capital firm investment automation company ‘Catalyst UI’. Altman is experienced in the world of Artificial Intelligence and his contributions to OpenAI have seen great progress and success.
