OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said AI regulation will be critical as the emerging industry moves forward. JASON REDMOND/AFP via Getty Images
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Microsoft’s AI-powered Bing has recently given some people a shocking reaction.
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Amid discussions and investigations, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman shared his thoughts on AI in a series of tweets Sunday.
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He warned the world might not be “that far from potentially scary” AI and said regulation will be “crucial”.
Sam Altman, the CEO of ChatGPT creators OpenAI, warned the world that artificial intelligence might not be “that far from potentially scary” and said its regulation will be “crucial”.
in one series of tweets on sunday, Altman said a transition to an AI-enabled future is “mostly good” and can happen quickly — like transitioning from the “pre-smartphone world to the post-smartphone world.”
However, he warned that society would need time to adapt to “something as big” as AI.
“We also need enough time for our institutions to figure out what needs to be done. Regulation will be crucial and will take time to figure out; while current-gen AI tools aren’t very scary, I think we may not be that far from potentially scary,” he tweeted.
He pointed out that one challenge with AI chatbots is that “people come away unsure about talking to a chatbot, even if they know what’s really going on.”
This phenomenon was recently observed with Microsoft’s ChatGPT-based Bing search engine. Bing rattled some people last week after it began providing shocking answers to questions that ranged from snarky and argumentative to overtly emotional.
Microsoft explained in a blog post last Wednesday that long chats can “confuse the model” who is sometimes trying to reply, or “reflect the tone in which she is being asked for answers, which can result in a style that we did not intend.” . The company is also trying to curb the platform — it now limits the number of exchanges users can have with the bot. Users can now ask Bing up to five questions per session and have up to 50 sessions per day.
Altman has been talking about regulating AI since 2015
This isn’t the first time Altman has spoken about regulating AI. He wrote about this in his blog in March 2015.
“The US government and all other governments should regulate the development of SMI,” he wrote, referring to superhuman machine intelligence. “In an ideal world, regulation would slow down the bad guys and speed up the good guys – it seems what happens with the first developed SMI will be very important.”
Altman’s Sunday tweet about the regulation echoed comments from OpenAI’s CTO, Mira Murati, who said in a Feb. 5 interview with Time Magazine that ChatGPT should be regulated because it could be abused. “It’s not too early” to regulate it, Murati told the media outlet.
Elon Musk — co-founder of OpenAI alongside Altman — said last Wednesday during the World Government Summit in Dubai that AI has “big, big promises” and capabilities — both positive and negative, but it needs to be regulated.
“I think we honestly need to regulate AI safety,” Musk said, per CNBC. “I think it’s actually a bigger risk to society than cars or airplanes or drugs.”
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