In recent days, there has been a storm in and around the American technology company OpenAI. It started on Friday with the manager being fired by the board. The board believed that Samuel Altman had not been honest. That he had kept something hidden. The company writes in a message that Altman had not been frank enough in his communication with the board. That this prevented the board from doing the job they were set to do. The board says in the same message that the company is intentionally structured so that it will promote artificial intelligence as a good for humanity. That the board works with this as a goal and adds that the company needs new management in the time to come. OpenAI launched in ChatGPT in November 2022. The so-called large language model led to a new debate about artificial intelligence. WORKED WITH SOMETHING: The board lost confidence in Samuel Altman. They believed that he was not honest in his communication, and that this prevented the board from doing the job they were set up to do. Photo: Reuters Thinks the world needs to know Elon Musk helped start OpenAI in 2015. The goal was to develop artificial intelligence in a safe way. He retired from the company in 2019. Elon Musk has repeatedly warned that AI could spell the doom of humanity. What he fears most is that a company will develop an artificial intelligence that is much more intelligent than humans. That this intelligence will feel threatened by humans, and will therefore attempt to exterminate them. Another fear is that artificial intelligence will become so dominantly better at intellectual tasks that large parts of the workforce will lose their jobs. On the night of Tuesday, Musk writes the following about the dismissal of Altman: – Why such a drastic action? If OpenAI does something that could potentially harm humanity, then the world needs to know about it. MAY HAVE MADE A COUP: The head of Microsoft, Satya Narayana Nadella, says that the company will continue to work with OpenAI, but at the same time is open to taking over the employees. Photo: Reuters Microsoft may take over The dismissal had major consequences. Altman and several others central to OpenAI get new positions at the giant Microsoft. Almost all the employees of OpenAI have signed a petition stating that they will quit if Altman does not get his job back and the board leaves. Microsoft says that Altman will be at the head of a new research center, and that the door is open to others who want to work there. Microsoft is the largest investor in OpenAI. The company has an agreement that gives it full rights to almost all patents and other intellectual property OpenAI has developed. OpenAI already uses the cloud services of Microsoft and is dependent on the company’s infrastructure. On Monday, Microsoft’s share price rose by two percent to the highest price ever. THROWN OUT THE CHIEF: Chief researcher at OpenAI, Ilya Sutskever, also sits on the board of the company. He must have had a leadership role in throwing the boss. He later said that he regretted the action. Photo: AFP Must work ethically The board of OpenAI has a special mandate. Ordinary companies have a board of directors to ensure that investors get the most money possible for their investment. The board of OpenAI has no such obligations. The task of the board is to ensure that the development of KI is ethical and sound. That AI should help humanity and make people’s lives better. It is this board that fired the head of the company. To ensure that the board can steer the company in that direction, OpenAI was founded as a “non-profit company”. It should therefore not seek to make money for the sake of making money, but care about the core mission. DOMINATING: ChatGPT is growing rapidly and has so far led the way in the battle for customers. Photo: AFP Still made a lot of money This model started to take off after ChatGPT was launched. The company gained many paying customers. They developed new versions of the language model. ChatGPT managed to do more and more. Other technology companies launched their versions and are now intensively researching the development of AI. OpenAI led the field, and there was rapid development of ChatGPT. The company was one of the fastest growing in Silicon Valley history. It could be suitable to take a place next to “The Big Five”. What OpenAI is now developing ChatGPT and other AI systems for is unknown.
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