Hey everybody, welcome back to the Elon Musk. Podcast this. Is a show where we discuss. The Critical. Crossroads that shape SpaceX, Tesla. X. The Boring Company and Neuralink. 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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