ChatGPT inventor: “I think it’s good that people are nervous”

“This technology is clearly very powerful and we don’t know for sure what exactly will happen,” Altman said Thursday at the World Economic Forum in Davos. “I think it would be very bad if you weren’t careful and didn’t know what was at stake. That’s why I think it’s good that people are nervous.”

You can also feel nervousness at OpenAI itself. But he believes that the benefits of artificial intelligence (AI) are so enormous that they need to be developed further. It is the responsibility of the developers to make the technology safe with social and political input and to find guard rails.

“Sometimes creative, often wrong”

Altman sees limits being reached in current applications of generative AI. “We’re going to have to invent new things,” he said. Altman described AI as “a system that is sometimes right, sometimes creative, but often completely wrong.” The limitations are clear: It can help with brainstorming or checking programming code, but is not suitable for situations in which it is a matter of life and death. Users often understand such applications and their limitations better than one would give them credit for.

The chatbot ChatGPT can formulate sentences at the linguistic level of a human. Its publication around a year ago sparked a hype about artificial intelligence.

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