Will AI ever be as intelligent as humans? This partly depends on how we define intelligence. But whatever your definition, Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, wants to achieve the goal of AI superintelligence.
In a recent interview with the Financial Times, Altman discussed the challenges of making AI as intelligent as humans and said Microsoft’s funding was a key step on the road to AGI. general artificial).
To develop more advanced versions of ChatGPT, OpenAI received investment capital from Microsoft in the order of $10 billion spread over the next few years. Mr. Altman is seeking additional funding from the software giant and other investors.
“The training costs are simply enormous”
In the interview, Altman said OpenAI’s partnership with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella was “working very well” and that he expected to “raise a lot more money over time.” a necessary factor in attempting to shape smarter and more sophisticated AI models.
Asked about the possibility of Microsoft investing more money, Mr. Altman told the Financial Times: “I hope that will be the case. There is a long way to go, and a lot of computing to build between now and the ‘AGI… The training expenses are simply enormous.’
Although ChatGPT has generated a lot of interest in OpenAI, the challenge for the company is creating a sustainable and profitable business model. To prove its value to users and investors, OpenAI held its first-ever Dev Day developer conference earlier this month, where it unveiled a series of new initiatives.
“Our unique product is intelligence. I think that’s our reason for being”
The company now offers a custom GPT feature through which subscribers can create their own chatbots for specific tasks. A GPT store is expected to open later this month, offering the best GPTs for sale and potentially allowing their creators to share revenue. OpenAI has also expanded the knowledge deadlines for GPT-3.5 and GPT-4, improving the AI’s prowess as a research tool.
Right now, people are saying ‘you have this research lab, you have this API, you have the partnership with Microsoft, you have this ChatGPT, now there is a GPT Store,’ Mr. Altman told the Financial Times. “But they’re not really our products. They’re conduits to our unique product, which is intelligence. I think that’s what we’re all about.”
Superintelligence remains the ultimate goal of Altman and OpenAI. ChatGPT and other generative AI chatbots hold large amounts of data, can conduct conversations, and respond to a variety of questions and requests. But they do not have the intelligence of human beings. To be truly intelligent, an AI should at least be able to independently and autonomously perform any task that a human being can perform.
OpenAI is working on the next iteration of its AI model, GPT-5
In the interview, Altman said his company is working to create more autonomous agents that can perform specific tasks such as running codes, making payments, sending emails or filing claims for compensation. The goal is to make these agents more and more powerful, as the actions become more and more complex.
OpenAI is also working on the next iteration of its AI model, GPT-5. Since current versions of GPT are already capable of generating text, computer code and multimedia, what will be the new talents of GPT-5? Even Mr. Altman acknowledges that it’s hard to know until developers start training the new model.
OpenAI therefore remains in the quest for the Holy Grail of superintelligence. The AGI development effort requires a missing piece of the puzzle so that AI can make the necessary fundamental leap in understanding.
Is the path of AI the same as that of Isaac Newton?
To draw a comparison, Mr. Altman referred to Isaac Newton, who first had to read mathematics textbooks and speak with professors to acquire the necessary knowledge. That’s what current GPT models can do, he said. But Newton would never have invented calculus just by reading textbooks.
“And neither do our models,” Mr. Altman added. “So the question is what is the missing idea to generate new knowledge. I think that’s the most important thing to work on.”
Source: “ZDNet.com”