Good for public to be ‘little scared’ of ChatGPT, OpenAI CEO says
Christopher Hutton
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The CEO of the organization behind ChatGPT said he is happy that people are hesitant about the artificial intelligence-powered bot, which he said could reshape society.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told ABC News on Sunday that he believed AI could have a significant impact on society but that it also came with real dangers. These dangers could include misinformation and cyberattacks by foreign entities empowered by generative bots such as ChatGPT.
“We’ve got to be careful here,” Altman said. “I think people should be happy that we are a little bit scared of this.”
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Altman specifically mentioned the risk of what happens when people with less than honorable interests get their hands on the technology. “There will be other people who don’t put some of the safety limits that we put on,” Altman said. “Society, I think, has a limited amount of time to figure out how to react to that, how to regulate that, how to handle it.”
Countries such as Russia have shown an interest in pursuing AI. Russian President Vladimir Putin told students in 2017 that whoever led the AI race would most likely “rule the world.” GPT-4 has safeguards to protect users from engaging in illicit conduct, such as seeking information about how to construct bombs.
Altman also noted the software’s inability to fact-check. “The thing that I try to caution people the most is what we call the ‘hallucinations problem,'” he said. “The model will confidently state things as if they were facts that are entirely made up.” OpenAI is attempting to counter this problem by having the bot use deductive reasoning rather than memorization, allowing it to process statements in real time.
OpenAI launched the latest version of its software, GPT-4, on Tuesday. The bot has a faster response rate and can process image prompts.
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Microsoft, which provided over $10 billion to OpenAI to help with bot development, fired one of the teams overseeing ethics questions around artificial intelligence on Monday.
As bots such as GPT-4 grow more popular, some conservatives have spoken out about the bot being politically biased against them.