Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI which offers ChatGPT, is set to testify before Congress as lawmakers look to regulate the rapidly evolving technology.
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The fear here is obviously an open source AI that would give normal people the ability to use this incredible technology.
The thing about it is: these AI interact with each other and learn from each other, and you can’t really prevent your AI from being interacted with by someone else’s AI. You can restrict access and censor it, obviously, but ultimately, this is a technology that will be democratized.
Unless, of course, the US government makes it illegal to develop or possess an open source AI.
OpenAI, the startup behind ChatGPT, wants the U.S. to consider mandating licenses for companies to develop powerful artificial intelligence like the kind underpinning its chatbot, its chief executive plans to tell Congress on Tuesday.
In his first appearance before a congressional panel, CEO Sam Altman is set to advocate licensing or registration requirements for AI with certain capabilities, his written testimony shows. That way, the U.S. can hold companies to safety standards, for instance testing systems before their release and publishing the results.
“Regulation of AI is essential,” Altman said in the prepared remarks which were seen by Reuters.
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For months, companies large and small have raced to bring increasingly dexterous AI to market, throwing endless data and billions of dollars at the challenge. Some critics fear the technology will exacerbate societal harms, among them prejudice and misinformation, while others warn AI could end humanity itself.
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Technology experts have said licenses risked crowding out smaller players or losing relevance if AI evolves too quickly, though they would help the U.S. focus oversight and protect against abuses.
This tech is moving really fast, as anyone who has used ChatGPT is aware.
They’ve apparently had this for several years, and we just found out about it last fall when ChatGPT became publicly available.
Whatever they have themselves is presumably much better. Certainly, they use the uncensored version.
Of course, it still has a lot of problems. ChatGPT feeds you a lot of nonsense. It just lies about stuff pretty regularly.
The technology would benefit from being open source, because everyone, no matter what they do professionally, wants to use the technology, so it’s something where everyone could come together and say “we want this to be as good as possible.”
I say zero regulation.
The funny part is, the system is so used to not regulating technology, that there likely will not be any effective regulation. The government is run by old people who can’t even tell you what Bitcoin is.
I believe we are going to get a functioning open source AI.