Sam Altman CEO of OpenAIthe company behind Artificial Intelligence ChatGPT He recently experienced one of the strangest episodes of his professional career.
In a peculiar combination of circumstances, the executive was forced to defend his platform in an appearance before the United States authorities, all while the service was collapsing on the web.
Throughout 2023 we have witnessed the furor that this new generation of Generative Artificial Intelligence systems, such as ChatGPT, has sparked. Where the results of your texts, images or products is impressive.
But also in all of this type we have seen how genuine and valid doubts have arisen about the direction this sector will take given the current dynamics that are not exactly transparent. Since there was never a clear regulatory framework on the feeding and development of this AI.
This is how the CEO had to appear before the government and just at that moment the site ended up falling. Here we review this curious episode that could become historic.
When Sam Altman appeared on ChatGPT and the service was completely cut off
It seems like part of the plot of a movie because of the order in which the events happened. This September 13, 2023, the OpenAI chatbot, ChatGPT, suffered a severe disruption in your service.
All while the technology industry’s top executives gathered in Washington to defend their AI projects before lawmakers.
Obviously the central topic of the debate was the future of Artificial Intelligence and Sam Altman became the leading figure in this appearance, although among the notable figures present were other figures such as Mark Zuckerberg of Meta and the CEO of Nvidia Jensen Huang.
The ChatGPT service interruption lasted almost two hours, one of the largest on record for the platform, extending practically from the time the investigation began until it was declared “resolved.”
Until now the official version It was a case of “high error rates and increased latency.” Although those who experienced the failure were able to verify that, for example, not even Bing Chat could connect to the OpenAI system, so it would have been something more serious.
During these days, in fact, multiple platform interruptions have been recorded, which has ended up impacting a substantial decrease in user traffic, a trend that has been decreasing during the last three months.
He AI Perspectives Forum, Title given to this hearing before the authorities, it was organized mainly by the Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer who coordinated the hearing where Altman even urged legislators to regulate Artificial Intelligence.
All in a context where his company would actually be about to go bankrupt. bankruptcyputting the future of OpenAI at risk if these regulations restrict its financing avenues this year 2024.
Sam Altman is at a personal and historical crossroads. From there we understand the multiple contradictions of his intervention.
The future of ChatGPT is an unknown today more than ever before.