The move came in London Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, appeared in the queue around the University College (UCL) building before his speech on Wednesday afternoon. Hundreds of eager-looking students and admirers of the ChatGPT chatbot flocked there to attend Altman’s visit to the UK as part of his 17-city world tour. This week he already visited Paris (France) and Warsaw (Poland). Before he was in Lagos (Nigeria) and soon he will go to Munich.
But on the line in London it was set to the sound of a few people moving in fear at the voice of those who were advancing too quickly in artificial intelligence. “Sam Altman wants to play humanity in hopes of some kind of transhuman utopia,” a protester shouted into a megaphone. Ben, another participant, who declined to share his last name so as not to affect his job prospects, also expressed alarm. “We are concerned above all about the development of future AI models that may be dangerous for the existence of the human race.”
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What Sam Altman thinks about artificial intelligence
In front of an audience packed with about a thousand people, Altman looked fake. Dressed in a bright blue suit with green socks, he spoke in short answers, always to the point. His tone was optimistic as he explained how he thinks artificial intelligence can revive the economy. “I’m excited that this technology can recover the fruits that have been lost for decades,” he said. But while he didn’t mention the foreign protests, he admitted concerns about how generative AI could be used to spread information.
“Humans are already good at wrong forms and maybe GPT models will make it easier. But that’s not what scares me,” he said. “What will be different with the interactive, personal and persuasive artificial intelligence capabilities of these systems.”
Although OpenAI plans to incorporate mechanisms such as ChatGPT to refuse to create disinformation and plans to circumvent the systems, he said it will be difficult to mitigate these effects when the company makes open models available to the public, as it already announced a few weeks ago. what he has in mind. “The OpenAI options won’t do it, like what we can do in our systems.”
Despite this caveat, Altman believes it’s important not to over-regulate artificial intelligence as technology continues to emerge. The European Parliament is currently debating the so-called Artificial Intelligence Law, a new regulation that will establish the way in which companies can develop this type of model and implement an AI role to oversee its compliance. In the UK, however, it decided to spread responsibility across different regulatory bodies, such as those dealing with human rights, safety, security and competition, rather than creating a separate inspection body, Reuters reports.
