Nervousness about AI understandable according to ChatGPT developer
Published: Thursday, Jan 18th 2024, 13:41
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The head of ChatGPT inventor OpenAI, Sam Altman, understands the fears of many people in connection with artificial intelligence. He pleads with developers to take responsibility.
"This technology is clearly very powerful and we don't know for sure what exactly is going to happen," Altman said at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Thursday. "I think it would be very bad if people weren't careful and didn't know what was at stake. So I think it's good that people are nervous."
There is also a sense of nervousness at OpenAI itself. However, he believes that the benefits of artificial intelligence are so enormous that they need to be developed further. It is the responsibility of the developers to make the technology safe with social and political input and to find guard rails.
Altman believes that the current applications of generative AI have reached their limits. "We will have to invent new things," he said. Altman described AI as "a system that is sometimes right, sometimes creative, but often completely wrong".
The limits are clear: it can help with brainstorming or checking programming code, but is not suitable for life and death situations. Users often understand such applications and their limitations better than they are given credit for.
The chatbot ChatGPT can formulate sentences at the linguistic level of a human. Its release around a year ago triggered a hype around artificial intelligence.
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