OpenAI CEO Mira Altman: “An openAI CEO is not the answer to the question of candor,” she wrote in an anonymous tweet on Friday
An investor in OpenAI who spoke anonymously because they did not have full details of the board’s concerns said its statement suggested the gravity of Altman’s alleged lack of candor was significant and it’s possible the changeover could lead to employees heading elsewhere. OpenAI and AI rivals such as Google and Meta have intensified their competition for AI talent since ChatGPT’s debut last year.
If you referred to Mira as the minister of truth, you could also refer to her as its chief technology officer. In addition to heading the teams that develop tools such as ChatGPT and Dall-E, it’s been her job to make sure those products don’t mislead people, show bias, or snuff out humanity altogether.
Altman posted Friday on X, formerly Twitter: “i loved my time at openai. It was beneficial for me personally and hopefully the world as a whole. most of all i loved working with such talented people. Will have more to say later.
He became the face of Openai in the last year after the success of “chatg”, a dance movement that broke into public consciousness. He was mobbed by a crowd of fans at an event in London on his world tour.
He thinks that artificial intelligence is the greatest leap forward of any of the technological revolutions we have had so far. But he also acknowledged the need for guardrails to protect humanity from the existential threat posed by the quantum leaps being taking by computers.
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The company said that it has a board of directors consisting of its CEO Adam D’Angelo, as well as three non-employees: a tech luminary, a security expert, and a woman.
Microsoft’s statement said that it has a long-term partnership with OpenAI and that it is still committed to Mira and her team as we bring the next era of artificial intelligence to our customers.
Altman, now 38, has been seen as a Silicon Valley wunderkind since his early 20s. He was recruited in 2014 to take lead of the startup incubator YCombinator by its co-founder, venture capitalist Paul Graham.
Graham made a statement that “Sam is one of the smartest people I know and understands startup better than anyone I know” when he was announced as the president of the incubator. Graham was one of those rare people who were both fearsomely effective and fundamentally benevolent.
It incorporated a for-profit business, OpenAI, and shifted most of its staff into the business after releasing its first generation of the GPT large language model for generating paragraphs of readable text. In a move to eliminate a possible conflict of interest, Musk resigned from the board of directors, which was co-chaired by him.
Big tech companies were in a race to build more powerful artificial intelligence due to the surprising skills of ChatGPT, and it stunned the public and researchers. The bot’s success turned Altman into a tech celebrity, consulted by world leaders on the future path of AI technology.
Altman acknowledged that success wasn’t certain, but he expressed confidence that AI would ultimately be beneficial, describing the technology as his life’s work, from childhood. This will be the most beneficial technology we have yet created, he said.
“We’re on a path to self-destruction as a species right now,” he said, sitting alongside executives from Meta and Google. If we want to be a success, we need new technology.
Mira Murati. I’ve worked in four different fields, including engineering, automotive, virtual reality, and augmented reality. Both in my time at Tesla [where she shepherded the Model X], and at a VR company [Leap Motion] I was doing applications of AI in the real world. I very quickly believed that AGI would be the last and most important major technology that we built, and I wanted to be at the heart of it. Open AI was the only organization at the time that was incentivized to work on the capabilities of AI technology and also make sure that it goes well. I started working on our supercomputing strategy and managing a few research teams after I joined.
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It is hard to remember the big moments. We live in the future, and we see crazy things every day. GPT3 was able to translate. I speak three languages: Italian, Albanian and English. I just created a pair of prompts in English and Italian. Even though we never trained it to translate, it could do it fairly well.
The for-profit entity lived inside the structure when OpenAI changed from a nonprofit to a company. What did you think about that?
It wasn’t done lightly and it wasn’t done lightly. You need to deploy models at scale to be able to understand how to make them better. It costs a lot of money. It’s important that you have a business plan since your donors won’t be as generous as investors are. I don’t think there’s any other structure like this. The key thing was protecting the mission of the nonprofit.