OpenAI, the developed the popular chatbot ChatGPT, said that it does not work with the next generation of artificial intelligence.
CEO Sam Altman said at an event at MIT on Thursday that OpenAI is not developing GPT-5, which is the next generation of its large language model, and that it won’t for “some time. ” GPT-4, the model underlying the latest version of ChatGPT, Bing’s chatbot, and other applications, was released in March.
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Altman’s comment came in response to a question about an open letter signed by Elon Musk, Andrew Yang, and a large group of AI researchers demanding a six-month pause in AI training because of fear of the effects of powerful AI.
Musk’s letter “misses much of the technical nuance where we need to stop,” Altman said, and does not state that OpenAI is working toward a more powerful model.
“We’re doing other things on top of GPT-4 that I think have all kinds of safety issues that are important to address and are completely out of line,” Altman said.
Musk and other AI researchers posted an open letter in late March calling for a halt to all training of AI models stronger than GPT-4. “This suspension must be public and verifiable and include all relevant actors,” the letter said. “If such a stop cannot be made quickly, governments must step in and create a moratorium.” Many members of the AI development industry criticized the letter, claiming that it misrepresented the issues, that it was pushed by OpenAI’s competitors, and that many prominent signatures were forged.
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The Pentagon’s top cyber warfare official dismissed Musk’s call to suspend the training. “Artificial intelligence machine-learning is resonant today and something our adversaries will continue to look to exploit,” Gen. Paul Nakasone said in congressional testimony.
Altman has previously noted that there is a risk in the development of AI. “We have to be careful here. I think people should be happy that we’re a little scared of it,” he said recently.