OpenAI Chief Altman Provides Update on Upcoming ChatGPT 5 Model
According to Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI and the developer of AI chatbot ChatGPT, the company is currently not engaged in training GPT5, which is the next version of GPT4.
“We have a lot of work to do before GPT5. It will take a lot of time. We are nowhere near it,” Altman said at a conference hosted by The Economic Times in Delhi on Wednesday.
“We are working on new ideas that we think we need for that, but we are nowhere near the beginning. More security audits are needed: I wish I could tell you about the timeline for the next GPT,” he added.
Altman’s comments are based on growing concern among AI researchers and Big Tech executives about the technology’s alarming pace of development.
In March, several top entrepreneurs and AI researchers, including Tesla and Twitter CEO Elon Musk and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, wrote an open letter asking all AI labs to immediately stop training AI systems more powerful than GPT-4. at least six months.
More than 1,100 global AI researchers and leaders signed an open letter calling for a halt to “all giant AI experiments.”
After a few weeks, Altman admitted that the letter lacked the most technical nuance, but insisted that OpenAI had not started practicing GPT-5 and would not do so “for some time.”
In May, Altman acknowledged that if generative AI technology goes wrong, it could, as US senators expressed their fears about AI chatbots like ChatGPT.
Altman, who testified at a U.S. Senate hearing in Washington, said the AI industry needs to be regulated by the government because artificial intelligence is becoming “convergently more powerful.”
Senators briefed him on potential threats posed by artificial intelligence and raised fears about the 2024 presidential election.
