Altman was speaking virtually at an event at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) about threats posed by AI system. On training GPT-5, he said the company is not and “won’t for some time.” Meanwhile, Altman added that the they were working on upgrades and updates to GPT-4.
“We are doing other things on top of GPT-4 that I think have all sorts of safety issues that are important to address and were totally left out of the letter,” he said.
He also spoke about an open letter circulated among the tech community signed by Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak and other signatories, that requested companies such as OpenAI pause development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems “more powerful than GPT-4.”
Altman said the letter was “missing most technical nuance about where we need the pause”.
Several tech experts have raised concerns about rapid growth and threat posed by AI.
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ChatGPT, the generative chatbot from OpenAI, has gained more than 100 million monthly active users, just months after its launch in November last year. On Wednesday, Italy’s data protection agency set out a list of demands to address its concerns over ChatGPT and allow the chatbot service run by OpenAI to resume in the country, news agency Reuters reported.
This comes almost two weeks after OpenAI took ChatGPT offline in the country after the authority temporarily restricted its personal data processing and began a probe into a suspected breach of privacy rules.
After Italy, lawmakers and regulators in Europe are studying whether harsher measures are needed for chatbots.
Spain’s data protection agency has asked the European Union’s privacy watchdog to evaluate privacy concerns surrounding ChatGPT.
