{"id":12349,"date":"2023-11-22T12:37:29","date_gmt":"2023-11-22T11:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/22\/the-openai-meltdown-will-only-accelerate-the-artificial-intelligence-race-sarah-kreps\/"},"modified":"2023-11-22T12:37:29","modified_gmt":"2023-11-22T11:37:29","slug":"the-openai-meltdown-will-only-accelerate-the-artificial-intelligence-race-sarah-kreps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/22\/the-openai-meltdown-will-only-accelerate-the-artificial-intelligence-race-sarah-kreps\/","title":{"rendered":"The OpenAI meltdown will only accelerate the artificial intelligence race | Sarah Kreps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Optimists and \u2018doomers\u2019 are fighting over the direction of AI research \u2013 and those who want speed may have won this round<\/p>\n<p>In November 2022, OpenAI launched ChatGPT, a consumer-facing artificial intelligence tool that could hold a conversation with users, answer questions, and generate anything from poems to computer code to health advice. The initial technology was not perfect \u2013 it would sometimes \u201challucinate\u201d, producing convincing but inaccurate information \u2013 but its potential generated enormous attention.<\/p>\n<p>A year later, ChatGPT\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2023\/11\/6\/23948386\/chatgpt-active-user-count-openai-developer-conference\">popularity<\/a> has continued, with 100 million people using it on a weekly basis, and over 92% of Fortune 500 companies and several competitor firms looking to cash in or improve on the technology. But that\u2019s not why ChatGPT\u2019s creator, OpenAI, was in the news this week. Instead, OpenAI was the center of a fierce philosophical debate about what it means to develop artificial general intelligence for the benefit of humanity.<\/p>\n<p>Sarah Kreps is a professor of government at Cornell University and the director of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tpi.as.cornell.edu\/\">Tech Policy Institute<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2023\/nov\/22\/openai-chatgpt-artificial-general-intelligence-race-acceleration\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/d12a7c1f184baf181c112396b8fb18251adfef30\/0_527_4772_2865\/master\/4772.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=d91ff80d3a01ad12a3e14df820d5983a\" title=\"The OpenAI meltdown will only accelerate the artificial intelligence race | Sarah Kreps\" \/>Optimists and \u2018doomers\u2019 are fighting over the direction of AI research \u2013 and those who want speed may have won this round<br \/>\nIn November 2022, OpenAI launched ChatGPT, a consumer-facing artificial intelligence tool that could hold a conversation with users, answer questions, and generate anything from poems to computer code to health advice. The initial technology was not perfect \u2013 it would sometimes \u201challucinate\u201d, producing convincing but inaccurate information \u2013 but its potential generated enormous attention.<br \/>\nA year later, ChatGPT\u2019s popularity has continued, with 100 million people using it on a weekly basis, and over 92% of Fortune 500 companies and several competitor firms looking to cash in or improve on the technology. But that\u2019s not why ChatGPT\u2019s creator, OpenAI, was in the news this week. Instead, OpenAI was the center of a fierce philosophical debate about what it means to develop artificial general intelligence for the benefit of humanity.<br \/>\nSarah Kreps is a professor of government at Cornell University and the director of the Tech Policy Institute Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Optimists and \u2018doomers\u2019 are fighting over the direction of AI research \u2013 and those who want speed may have won this round In November 2022, OpenAI launched ChatGPT, a consumer-facing artificial intelligence tool that could hold a conversation with users, answer questions, and generate anything from poems to computer code to health advice. The initial &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/22\/the-openai-meltdown-will-only-accelerate-the-artificial-intelligence-race-sarah-kreps\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The OpenAI meltdown will only accelerate the artificial intelligence race | Sarah Kreps<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":12350,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12349"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}