“Everything very calm in the eye of the hurricane”, tweeted just three hours ago Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI and the main person responsible, therefore, for the creation of ChatGPT and GPT-4. That ‘eye of the hurricane’ you are referring to is public reaction to the open letter presented yesterday by 1,000 experts from the field of artificial intelligence, which called for a moratorium on the development of new advanced models of the same.
A few hours earlier, Altman posted another tweet in which he made his own contribution to the debate, raising the three main elements that we need to confidently face a future in which strong AI develops:
- “The technical capacity to align a superintelligence“. (To better understand this concept, we give the floor to Wikipedia: “If an AI is competent, but pursues objectives that have not been foreseen by researchers, it is said to be misaligned”).
- “Enough coordination among most major general AI projects [o IA fuerte]”.
- “A effective global regulatory framework that includes democratic governance”.
But why didn’t Altman make that contribution within the framework of the open letter itself? And, more importantly, Why is Altman himself placed in such an ‘eye of the storm’?
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Because said letter explicitly places GPT-4 as the limit of what is acceptable in terms of AI power, for which reason —if its recommendations are implemented— it would constitute an obstacle to the development of a theoretical GPT-5 model. Sam Altman is, in fact, the most conspicuous absence among the list of big names in the sector who put their signature on the letter yesterday.
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Possibly, it will not help to convince him to stamp his signature on such a document either. the fact that one of the biggest promoters of this is Elon Musk, with whom he has a tense relationship since the current CEO of Twitter left OpenAI after co-founding the company with Altman and others.
Musk has made no secret of his criticism of the strategy Altman has followed ever since, and Musk himself Altman has made no secret that he finds Musk a “jerk” although he acknowledges that his concern for the evolution of AI is sincere:
“To say something positive about Elon, I think he really cares about a future where artificial general intelligence exists. [también llamada IA fuerte]. I mean, he’s a jerk, and whatever else you want to say about him; It has a style that is not what I would like to have. But I think he really cares, and he feels very stressed about what the future of Humanity is going to look like.”
Given all of the above, it is not surprising that many have seen yesterday’s letter as a gesture against the interests of OpenAI… despite the fact that It has been Altman himself who laid the foundations of it when OpenAI published a month ago their document “Planning for AGI and beyond” (Planning for general AI and beyond)…
…and began telling anyone who would listen that he didn’t rule out that we might end up seeing “scary” AI, and that his own company was “scared” about potential criminal uses of artificial intelligence… all while It is OpenAI itself that leads the greatest technological leap in AI in many years and who benefits the most from the ‘boom’ business you are experiencing.
If anyone considers Musk, Wozniak and Co. ‘over the top’ or ‘paranoid’ for calling for a mere 6-month moratorium, we must remember that the Altman acknowledged in 2016 having his own bunker to stay safe from pandemics and “AI attacks”.
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