OpenAI CEO says era of giant AI models is over

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says the age of the large synthetic intelligence mannequin is already over.

“I feel we’re on the finish of the period the place it’ll be these, like, big, big fashions,” he advised an viewers on the Massachusetts Institute of Know-how over Zoom final week. 

“We’ll make them higher in different methods.” 

Throughout the identical occasion, Altman additionally confirmed that his firm shouldn’t be growing Chat GPT-5. 

OPENAI CEO SAM ALTMAN SAYS ELON MUSK-BACKED LETTER CALLING FOR AI PAUSE WASN’T ‘OPTIMAL WAY TO ADDRESS IT’

“An earlier model of the letter claimed OpenAI is coaching GPT-5 proper now,” he mentioned, referencing a letter from billionaire Elon Musk and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak. “We aren’t and will not for a while.”

Sam Altman, president of Y Combinator, speaks through the New Work Summit in Half Moon Bay, Calif., Feb. 25, 2019.  (David Paul Morris/Bloomberg through Getty Pictures)

The letter, revealed by the nonprofit Way forward for Life Institute, referred to as for a six-month moratorium on the development of any AI technology that’s extra highly effective than Chat GPT-4. Chat GPT-4 was launched in March.

Altman mentioned he did not consider the letter’s conclusions had been the best way to deal with AI points.

The latest debate has pressured the Biden administration and different governments around the globe to acknowledge the necessity for insurance policies to control the rising trade.

Sam Altman, CEO and co-founder of OpenAI, speaks throughout an occasion on the Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Wash., Feb. 7, 2023.  (Chona Kasinger/Bloomberg through Getty Pictures)

Nevertheless, it stays unclear the place advances will come from.

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Google launched a chatbot referred to as Bard, and Microsoft added its personal to its Bing search engine.

Whereas Musk might have signed the letter, the Twitter CEO advised Tucker Carlson he would start his own artificial intelligence chatbot: TruthGPT.

“I’ll begin one thing which I name TruthGPT, or a most truth-seeking AI that tries to grasp the character of the universe,” he mentioned within the interview that aired Monday. “And I feel this could be the most effective path to security within the sense that an AI that cares about understanding the universe is unlikely to annihilate people as a result of we’re an attention-grabbing a part of the universe.”

Elon Musk, CEO of House Exploration Applied sciences Corp. (SpaceX) and Tesla Inc., listens as Jim Bridenstine, administrator of NASA, not pictured, speaks throughout an occasion at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, Calif., Oct. 10, 2019.  (Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg through Getty Pictures)

“AI is extra harmful than, say, mismanaged plane design or manufacturing upkeep or unhealthy automobile manufacturing within the sense that it, it has the potential, nonetheless small one might regard that chance, however it isn’t trivial; it has the potential of civilizational destruction,” the SpaceX founder said. 

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Musk has also founded a new company called X.AI, in accordance with a March 9 submitting in Nevada. 

Fox Information’ Jeffrey Clark and Bailee Hill contributed to this report.