GENEVA – OPENAI CEO, Sam Altman, was a star speaker at the AI annual conference for the right conference, addressing the annual collection of the United Nations Telecommunications Agency on the way of exploiting the societal promise of artificial intelligence technology.
But Altman spent part of his virtual appearance repelling thorny questions about governance, a Controversy of the voice of AI and the criticism of the members of the escape board.
The appearance of Altman to talk about the advantages of AI comes as his business has fought against an increasing tide of concern about her commercial practices and how she manages the security of the AI.
He was one of the heads of technology to join the Geneva Rally while the two -day event welcomes speeches and discussions on artificial intelligence applications for robotics, medicine, education, sustainable development and more.
The last series of dissatisfaction at Openai coincided with the new showcase of products from the company earlier in May which attracted the anger of the Hollywood Star Scarlett Johansson, who said that she was shocked to hear the voice of Chatgpt which sounded “strangely similar” to his despite having rejected the request of Altman to give him the voice to the system.
Altman spoke for a long time of themes related to AI in an interview with Nicholas Thompson, CEO of the Atlantic. But he avoided answering questions about some sensitive subjects, such as explaining the use by Chatgpt-Maker from the voice of an actor who looked like that of Johansson.
“It is not his voice. It is not supposed to be. I am sorry for confusion. Obviously, you think that is the case,” said Altman, noting that people will have different opinions on the way the voices seem similar.
“I don’t know what to say else,” added Altman. Thompson, whose magazine has concluded a product and content agreement with OpenAI a day earlier, did not follow.
He then questioned Altman about governance in Openai, including an idea for a governance council.
“We continue to talk about how to implement governance. I should probably not say too much for the moment,” said Altman.
“Say a little more,” replied Thompson, drawing laughter from the public.
“I’m going to pass. I’m sorry,” said Altman.
The surveillance of large AI companies like Openai has been an increasingly lively subject. Shortly after Johansson’s controversy, the researcher who was leaving, Jan Leike, said that the company left security “to take the brilliant products” and had cited disagreements with the best leaders who reached a “breaking point”.
Leike’s departure came a few days after the co-founder Ilya Sutskever left. The two jointly led the “Superalignment” team of Openai, focused on the founding mission of the organization to develop a better than human AI, known as the artificial general intelligence, or AG. This team is now dissolved and replaced by another security committee.
Thompson asked questions about Helen Toner’s comments, a researcher from the University of Georgetown, who was part of a group of members of the Board of Directors of Openai, overthrown last year following a chaotic power struggle With Altman. Toner, which is part of a group that organized reserves on IA security risks, criticized Altman in a podcast for the restraint of information, distorting what was going on in Openai or “pure and simple lie”.
In an example, she said that when Chatgpt was published in November 2022, “the board of directors was not informed in advance. We learned about Chatgpt on Twitter.”
“I do not agree with his memories of events,” said Altman. Toner “really cares about a good result acted, and I appreciate that for her, and I wish her good luck. I probably don’t want to go into a line refutation here.”
OPENAI has survived a new wave of IA generating technologies that burst into the public view of the audience 18 months ago when it was launched by Chatgpt, a first star among the AI systems This produces a new text, images and videos based on a large database of online writings, books and other media. Other corporate titans and AI startups have since launched their versions of technology.
While the efforts of “the AI for the good” of the UN are prior to the last generative enthusiasm of the AI, the rapid progress and marketing of technology have attracted the attention of the world.
“Artificial intelligence changes our world and our life,” said the video of the UN secretary general António Guterres, noting his promise for things like education and health care in distant areas, increased crop yields and early alert systems for natural disasters.
Political leaders from around the world are particularly concerned about AI tools that could overeat the propagation of online disinformation: with some typed commands and requests, texts and images generated by computer can be distributed on social networks and on the Internet – blurring the border between false news and reality.
“Transforming its potential into reality requires an AI that reduces biases, disinformation and security threats, instead of worsening them,” said Guterres, insisting that he must also involve helping developing countries “exploit AI for themselves” and “connecting non-connected” in the world.
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Chan reported in London. The technology writer AP Matt O’Brien in Providence, Rhode Island contributed to this report.
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This story has been corrected to show that the title of Thompson is CEO, not publisher, of the Atlantic.
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