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I'm your host, Will Walden. Open AI announced on Tuesday
that it has commenced training its newest AI model to replace
the current GPT for tech, which powers the powerful and popular
Chant GPT Chat bot. This new development is part of
Open a is broader goal to achieve artificial intelligence.
It's artificial general intelligence, actually, a Gia
concept that envisions machines with cognitive capabilities akin
to human brains. In addition to this major
update, Open AI revealed the formation of a new committee
dedicated to evaluating the safety and security of its AI
products. This committee, which includes
CEO Sam Altman, will conduct a 90 day review of the company's
technology and release the recommendations thereafter, he
said. We welcome a robust debate at
this important moment, emphasizing their openness to
discuss anything regarding safety measures and ethical
considerations of their AI developments.
Now based in San Francisco, Open AI is a leading player in the
artificial intelligence sector known for widely used tools such
as ChatGPT and also Doll E. Now these technologies has seen
significant adoption with large corporations like Microsoft, a
major financial backer of Open AI, integrating them into their
operations. Now, the announcements come at a
turbulent time for Open AI as the company faces a series of
challenges, including lawsuits, high profile staff departures,
and concerns over the potential misuse of AI tech.
And among these issues are fears that AI could facilitate
election disinformation, job displacement, and copyright
infringement. Recently, Open AI introduced an
update to its AI technology GPT 4 O or GPT 4 Omni enhancing Chat
GP TS capabilities to respond by voice.
Now, this update has not been without controversy, as actress
Scarlett Johansson accused Open AI of creating a voice really
similar to hers without permission.
We have an episode all about that a few episodes ago, so
please check that out after you listen to this one.
Now, Open AI responded to Johansson's accusations by
clarifying that the voice was not hers and that a voice actor
had been hired and paid substantially for that.
Despite this, Johansson has threatened legal action and this
is an ongoing concern about the ethical use of AI generated
content in the future. Now, the company is already
facing multiple lawsuits from news organizations, including
The New York Times, alleging that Open AIS methods of
training its chatbot technology infringe on copyrights.
These lawsuits challenge the practice of using vast amounts
of online data, such as news articles and other digital
content, to train AI models. And the departure of Open AI Co
founder Ilya Sutskever in May has added to the turmoil
internally. Now they led the team focused on
the societal threats of AI, resigned amid criticism that
Open AI was prioritizing profit over addressing the dangers
posed by the technology. And the resignation followed a
contentious episode in November when he and other board members
voted to oust Co founder Sam Altman.
And Altman was reinstated shortly thereafter, leading to
the resignation of Scutskever and other dissenting directors
from the board. Now, the newly formed safety
committee chaired by Brett Taylor, Cora CEO Adam D'Angelo,
former Sony and her team executive Nicole Seligman and
Altman will focus on refining open AI safety and security
protocols. This move comes shortly after
former board members called for increased regulation on AI
technologies. Now, these regulatory calls were
echoed in a recent article in The Economist, where former Open
AI board members argue that AI companies like Open AI cannot be
trusted to self regulate effectively.
This has intensified the debate over how to best manage the
rapid advancements in AI technology, and Open A IS
aggressive push towards developing more advanced AI
models aims to outpace its competitors while simultaneously
addressing the criticisms surrounding a IS potential
dangers. The company's ambition to
achieve AGI remains a contentious topic within the
tech industry and beyond, and the latest iteration of GPT 4,
released in March of 2023, has significant enhancements.
Indeed. Chat bots and other software
applications performing complex tasks, of course, answering
questions, generating text, analyzing data.
And the newest updated version, GTP four O, adds voice
interaction capabilities, further expanding the potential
uses of the technology. Now, if you're on a platform
that can comment on this podcast, please let me know if
you've used the latest version of GPT 4 O for Omni.
Actually everybody calls it four O though, so I've been using it
recently to do some some coding work and apparently it's like
it's it's pretty similar to regular GPT 4, but I can use
voice commands to allow it to configure code for me instead of
typing everything out. It can do a lot of the work with
just me talking to it, which is pretty incredible actually.
Now trending these AI models like GPT 4 O involves extensive
data analysis including sounds, images, videos, and textual
content from various sources. This process can take gears,
possibly with additional time required for testing and fine
tuning before public release. So they've been working on this
for a very long time and we just got a peek at it.
And this isn't even the final version of this.
They're going to keep iterating on it and making it better.
They're trying to blow away the competition, especially Grok and
Google's GPT models as well. They're going to it.
It's a stiff competition out there right now.
So everything they include in an update is going to be pretty
ground breaking going forward. Multimodal actually is what
they're what they're working on right now.
They're they're very multimodal at this time, but they're
pushing for more. So possibly in the future you
can upload videos and have them have it more fit, have it do any
sort of any sort of work on it that you need done.
I'm not sure what they're going to be doing, but hopefully they
can do some video editing with the tool.
I think that would be really great, like an AI generated
video editing tool would be very interesting for open AI.
But this newest model, it's expected to be completed in the
next nine months to a year and it'll undergo rigorous safety
assessments before we get our hands on it by the committee.
And this committee will ensure that the model meets stringent
safety and security standards before it's made widely
available. Now, the leadership of John
Shulman, a Co founder and former head of the team, the created
ChatGPT, will be crucial in guiding Open A is long term
safety research. This new committee will oversee
Shulman's work and help establish robust policies to
mitigate technological risks. And it is open AI continues down
this path of complex challenges. You're going to keep pushing
boundaries because they're a private company and they need to
make money. And the success of its new model
and the effectiveness of its safety measures, It's going to
be the focus over the next 6 to 9 months, and we'll keep you
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