Sam Altmann, CEO of OpenAI, the company that developed Artificial Intelligence ChatGPT, He showed his pride regarding the contribution of his technology to humanity. So much so that he compared his company to the manhattan project, who created the atomic bomb for the United States.
A controversial point, no doubt. And that can cause more concern.
The report was recently made by New York Times, recalling an interview given by Altman in 2019.
According to the New York newspaper, “while Mr. Altman drank sweet wine instead of dessert, compared his company to the Manhattan Project.
“As if he was talking about tomorrow’s weather forecast, he said that the United States’ effort to build an atomic bomb during World War II had been a ‘project at the scale of OpenAI, the level of ambition we aspire to’.
Lead by J Robert Oppenheimer, the Manhattan Project developed the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, which left hundreds of billions dead, accelerating the end of the war.
Altman even quoted Oppenheimer in the aforementioned interview with the NY Times, noting that “technology happens because it is possible”.
Elon Musk and other personalities against the development of Artificial Intelligence
There are many personalities from science and technology who are confronted with OpenAI Artificial Intelligence, such as Elon Musk and Steve Wonziak. Musk even went so far as to say that he was “a danger to civilization.”
More than a thousand figures signed a letter requesting that it be stopped, at least for six months, the training of Artificial Intelligence.
In the letter they stated: “AI labs and independent experts should use this pause to jointly develop and implement a set of shared security protocols for advanced AI design and development, that are rigorously audited and supervised by independent external experts”.
Is the work of OpenAI being exaggerated?
GPT-4, the latest from OpenAI, is under the scrutiny of the society. The lab run by Sam Altman points out that the chatbot “displays human-level performance in various academic and professional benchmarks.”
The head of OpenAI recently noted that the climate of hype about his AI is “out of control.” “The hype on these issues, even if everything we hope for is correct in the long run, it is totally out of control in the short term.”