Artificial intelligence will take center stage in the nation’s capital on Tuesday, when technology CEO Sam Altman testifies for the first time before Congress about his company’s revolutionary chatbot, ChatGPT.
Altman’s AI research lab, OpenAI, revolutionized the technology last year with the release of ChatGPT, a chatbot that can mimic human conversation based on given prompts. The company has been releasing updates to its chatbot since November last year, sparking a race in Silicon Valley for other tech companies to build and release more power systems powered by artificial intelligence. .
Altman will appear before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and Law Tuesday morning as government leaders come under pressure to formulate regulations on artificial intelligence. Thousands of technology leaders and experts signed an open letter in March asking AI laboratories to suspend research into systems more powerful than OpenAI’s latest multimodal large-scale language model GPT-4, citing the technology. claimed to pose a risk to humanity.
The letter, signed by technology leaders such as Elon Musk and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, states that “Intelligence to compete with humans, as shown by extensive research and recognized by top AI research institutes. AI systems equipped with these could pose serious risks to society and humanity.” .
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman delivered a keynote announcing ChatGPT integration into Bing on February 7, 2023 at Microsoft in Redmond, Washington. (Jason Redmond/AFP via Getty Images)
Altman, 38, co-founded Loopt, a company that allowed smartphone users to share their location with others, in 2005, served as president of technology startup accelerator Y Combinator, and briefly served as CEO of Reddit. He has a long career in the technology world, including Dating back to 2014.
OpenAI was founded in 2015, with Altman and Musk on the initial board before the institute rose to global notoriety with ChatGPT last year.Altman was named CEO of the institute in 2020 after stepping down from his leadership role. at Y Combinator.
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In 2019, Altman compared his company’s artificial intelligence research to the Manhattan Project, where the first nuclear weapons were developed during World War II, according to The New York Times.
Illustrated image shows ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence software that generates human-like conversations (Getty Images)
The New York Times reported earlier this year, based on a 2019 interview with Altman, that “Altman compared his company to the Manhattan Project while drinking sweet wine instead of dessert.” “As if we were chatting about tomorrow’s weather forecast, he said the U.S. atomic bomb-making effort during World War II was ‘a project of the scale of OpenAI, the level of ambition we’re aiming for,'” he said.
Altman, who grew up in St. Louis, Missouri, moved to California to attend Stanford University, dropping out after two years to continue building Loopt, according to The New Yorker magazine in 2016. He told the media outlet that his technology had been pivotal in his life for a long time. That was back when he was eight years old, when he learned how to code and disassemble computers on a Mac. He also notes that it was his AOL chat room that helped him in getting over his own sexuality.
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“Growing up gay in the Midwest of population 2000 wasn’t all that great,” Altman told The New Yorker. “And finding his room on AOL chat was a big change. It’s not good for an 11-year-old or him to tell secrets at 12.”
Altman has a long history of success in the tech industry, including naming him to Forbes magazine’s 30 Under 30 list for venture capitalists in 2015, before being named one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world this year. Achievements have been recognized time and time again.
Y Combinator President Sam Altman speaks at the NewWork Summit in Half Moon Bay, CA, USA, Monday, February 25, 2019. (Getty Images)
Altman, a vegetarian who runs a ranch in California, said in 2016 that he was preparing for things like a deadly virus and the rise of civilization-destroying AI, and how he was preparing “to survive.” also said.
“I try not to think too much,” Altman told The New Yorker. “But I have guns, gold, potassium iodide, antibiotics, batteries, water, a gas mask from the Israeli Defense Forces, and a vast stretch of Big Sur that I can fly to.”
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Taken on March 31, 2023, the words artificial intelligence can be seen in this illustration. (Reuters/Dad Ruvic/Illustration)
Since the launch of ChatGPT last year, chatbots have exploded in popularity, reaching 100 million monthly active users in January and making history as the fastest growing consumer application of all time. . The platform was then incorporated into Microsoft Bing’s search engine (which invested heavily in Open AI), prompting Google to create a similar platform and other AI labs to build more powerful systems. Continuing research to build.
ChatGPT’s success has been felt around the world, and criticism from some tech leaders that the technology could spell the end for humanity and society has prompted lawmakers to draw attention to efforts such as: became. Technology rules and regulations.
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Sam Altman speaking at the Wall Street Journal Digital Conference in Laguna Beach, California, USA, October 18, 2017. (Reuters/Lucy Nicholson/File Photo)
Tuesday’s congressional hearings will also include testimony from IBM vice president and head of privacy trusts Christina Montgomery and New York University professor emeritus Gary Marcus.
Altman visited the White House last week to discuss concerns over AI with Vice President Kamala Harris. The tech CEO will also attend an invitation-only dinner with members of Congress from both parties on Monday night.
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Altman has previously acknowledged that AI poses dangers and concerns, but said the technology could be “the greatest technology mankind has ever developed.”
“You have to be careful here,” Altman told ABC News in March. “I think people should be happy that we’re a little scared of this.”
