Sam Altman, a 38-year-old American CEO of OpenAI, recently testified before the US Congress to inform about the development and use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its potential consequences for the world. Altman stated his biggest fear of AI, “If this technology goes wrong, it can go very wrong”. Sam is a Chicago-born entrepreneur in technology and well-known figure in the AI scene. He has gained recognition for his successes in business investing, co-founding Loopt which is a geolocation based social network. His exceptional skills caught the attention of media such as BusinessWeek and Forbes which honored him as outstanding investor under 30 in 2015. Furthermore, he co-founded OpenAI with the iconic tech entrepreneur Elon Musk.
OpenAI’s primary goal is to benefit humanity with General AI, thus developing powerful operations such as DALL-E and ChatGPT, reflecting AI’s capabilities. Although there have been criticisms of his direction and alliance with Microsoft, Altman remains the critic but optimistic of the long-term impact of AI which can generate new jobs and benefit labor markets.
The organization, OpenAI, is a leading AI research and implementation organization. OpenAI focuses on the development of artificial intelligence, building safer and more reliable AI tools. Through their work, OpenAI strives to leverage artificial intelligence to help people create and deploy technologies that support a more equitable world. They offer AI tools such as DALL-E, a creative AI system, and ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence system designed to automate natural-language conversations. OpenAI works with a team of researchers and developers to continue to advance the AI industry and have had various breakthroughs such as their language models GPT-2 and GPT-3.
