Sam Altman, CEO and co-founder of OpenAI, confirmed that his company will not be developing GPT-5, the presumed successor to its artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot GPT-4, “for some time.” after a group of businessmen from the technology sector -including Elon Musk- requested in a letter with an apocalyptic tone that AI systems “more powerful than GPT-4” be suspended for six months.
Altman said that the letter was “missing most of the technical nuances about where we need to pause,” during a conference held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), which he attended via video link.
He also assured that his company is not working on the development of a GPT-5, so the letter -which has already been signed by more than 25,000 people – seemed a bit “ridiculous”.
Although he agreed with the idea that OpenAI has to “move with caution”, since there is “increasing rigor in security matters” and that is “really important”.
“I also agree that as capabilities become more and more serious, the bar for security needs to be raised.Altman said at the institution event.
OpenAI created ChatGPT and then GPT-4, an AI chatbot that can generate human-like responses in a matter of seconds, and Microsoft uses its technology in its Bing chatbot.
However, the fact that OpenAI is not working on GPT-5 does not mean that it is not expanding the capabilities of GPT-4.
For those most concerned about the rapid growth of these AI technologies, Altman’s announcement that OpenAI is not developing GPT-5 is no consolation, as the company is expanding the potential of GPT-4 by connecting it to the internet, for example. , and, furthermore, it could launch a GPT-4.5, as it did with GPT-3.5.
In addition, OpenAI is not the only company that is working on this type of tool.
“Society has paused on other technologies with potentially catastrophic effects on society. we can do it here. Let’s enjoy a long summer hiatus from AI and don’t rush to fall unprepared“, requested at the end of March the open letter published by the non-profit organization Future of Life Institute.
The letter was signed by Musk, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, and American researchers Yoshua Bengio and Stuart Russel, among many others.
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