New York (EFE).- Sam Altman, executive director and co-founder of OpenAI, confirmed that his company will not develop “for some time” GPT-5, the presumed successor to its chatbot with artificial intelligence (AI) GPT-4, after that a group of businessmen from the technology sector -among them Elon Musk- requested in an apocalyptic letter 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 doesn’t stop
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.
Likewise, 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 break from AI and let’s not rush to fall unprepared ”, requested the open letter published by the non-profit organization Future of Life Institute at the end of March.
The letter was signed by Musk, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, and American researchers Yoshua Bengio and Stuart Russel, among many others.
Musk bets on artificial intelligence
Today it became known that Musk wants to join the chatbot race with artificial intelligence (AI) -in which Google, with Bard, and OpenIA and Microsoft, among others, already participate, with the latest version of ChatGPT, GPT-4- and launch his own company, according to the Financial Times (FT).
This information has leaked to the press just weeks after the billionaire participated in an apocalyptic letter calling for AI systems “more powerful than GPT-4” to be suspended for six months.
According to anonymous sources cited by the FT, the CEO of Twitter, SpaceX and Tesla has had talks with several investors from the last two companies to participate in this new venture.
For the new project, Musk reportedly secured thousands of high-powered GPU processors from manufacturer Nvidia.
GPU chips are needed to build a large language model (“Large Language Model”, abbreviated LLM): artificial intelligence systems capable of ingesting huge amounts of content and producing human-like writing or realistic images, similar to the technology that drives ChatGPT.
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Musk, who also heads Neuralink, a neurotechnology researcher, and The Boring Company, a tunneling start-up, has reportedly already begun hiring engineers to work on this project, according to trade press.
So far, Musk has hired Igor Babuschkin, a former DeepMind employee, and about half a dozen other engineers.
The AI startup is separate from its other companies, though it could use Twitter content as data to train its language model and leverage Tesla’s computing resources.
The new company would allow Musk to go head-to-head with OpenAI, a specialist AI company of which he was a part in the past.