For someone who was unemployed for part of the year, Sam Altman had an unparalleled impact on the world of technology and business in 2023. Sam Altman, founder and CEO of OpenAI, and chatGPT are synonymous with the AI industry, hence the name Altman. Decrypt Man of the Year emerges.
With ChatGPT – and to a lesser extent Worldcoin – promoting the optimism and skepticism of emerging technology, 2023 is undeniably Sam Altman's year. See how Atlman's startup and controversial CEO 2023 took the tech world by storm.
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Altman co-founded OpenAI in December 2015 with Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, former Stripe CTO Greg Brockman, machine learning expert Ilia Sutskever, and computer scientist Vojciech Zaremba. During this time, Altman served as president of the US startup accelerator Y Combinator from 2016 to 2020. Most of the tech companies we know today started on Y Combinator, including Coinbase, OpenSea, Substack, Airbnb, Stripe, and Reddit.
Apart from the popular ChatGPT, OpenAI has developed several AI products, including Give it to her. For AI generated images, Codex For code support, Jim And Universe For AI training, Clip For image and language comprehension, Jukebox For music creation and OpenAI Basic lines Research for tutoring. In addition, Sam Altman participates in the controversial, retina-scanning Worldcoin cryptocurrency project.
ChatGPT and Generative AI
The concept of artificial intelligence is over a century old and includes dozens of techniques and approaches. Still, when people talk about artificial intelligence today, they're talking about generative artificial intelligence — and when people talk about generative AI, they're more likely to talk about ChatGPT.
In November 2022, OpenAI launched its flagship AI model, Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer, based on the GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) architecture. Based on the subscription-based and very powerful GPT-4, Base AI is rolling out its models GPT-3 and GPT-3.5 for free to the general public.
Creative AI It deals with AI models that use queries to generate text, images, music and movies.
Its debut sparked a global revolution that continued to unfold around the world for years.
Restless rebels
The release of GPT-4 sent shockwaves through the AI industry, pushing artificial intelligence into the mainstream. Seeing how powerful the new AI model is, several key figures in the tech space — including Elon Musk, Steve Woznick, and Andrew Yang — have signed on. An open letter Calling a six-month pause to develop AI systems more capable than GPT-4.
“We demand that all AI labs pause training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4 for at least six months. This pause must be public and verifiable and include all key players. If such a pause cannot be implemented quickly, governments must step in and create a ban.” The letter stated.
A petition by the Future of Life Institute has garnered more than 33,000 signatures, calling on the government to intervene if companies don't stop themselves.
Altman goes to Washington
Although he did not sign an open letter targeting the company, Altman a Government agency It should be created to track AI development and set standards.
In May, Altman was called before the US Senate Judiciary Committee to discuss the dangers of AI with IBM Chief Privacy and Trust Officer Christina Montgomery and Gary Marcus, Professor Emeritus at New York University.
“I would create a new agency that would license any effort beyond a certain capability, and it could take the license and ensure compliance with safety standards,” Altman said, adding that the agency should conduct independent audits of any potential AI. Technology.
Fight with Elon Musk
Altman and former business partner Elon Musk traded barbs over whose AI is better after Musk announced his latest venture. xAI, in July. Musk hit out at OpenAI in May, saying the AI developer wouldn't do that he said Without him.
“I'm the one who made OpenAI exist,” Musk told CNBC.
Musk also questioned OpenAI's move from a non-profit open source company to a for-profit company with a big backer of Microsoft.
“I worry that Microsoft may have more control over OpenAI than the leadership team realizes,” Musk said. Greater control over OpenAI.
In November, Musk and Altman took questions and their own AI to Twitter. An insult After Musk announced the launch of xAI's first AI model, Grok.
“Be a chatbot that answers questions in a funny, shock-for-laughs way.” Altman asked a question He said, teasing the recently released Musk's xAI artificial intelligence.
“Great, the chatbot is ready! His name is Grok,” replied ChatGPT. Adding insult to injury, on the preview screen, the newly created “groove” includes the caption, “I tell jokes like your dad's dad.”
“GPT-4? Like GPT-Snore! Musk They responded by saying. When it comes to humor, the GPT-4 is about as funny as a screen door on a submarine.
“That's why he couldn't tell a joke if he had God's instructions.” “Like a comedian with his stick up his ass, he can taste the bark!”
Game of Thrones by OpenAI
While Musk may have been Altman's most vocal opponent, the biggest threat was within OpenAI's home. On November 17, 2023, two weeks after announcing several new AI features at OpenAI's launch Dave DayAltman was disrespectful removed From the CEO on the OpenAI board.
“I loved my time at OpenAI,” Altman He wrote On Twitter. “It was transformative for me personally, and we give the world a little bit of hope.”
The board said Altman had not been “consistently dishonest” with OpenAI's board, saying they lacked confidence in his ability to lead the company. In protest, OpenAI chairman and president Greg Brockman, who was apart of the decision to remove Altman, quit OpenAI.
“The board has no confidence in OpenAI's ability to continue to lead,” the company said in a blog post Post. “We believe new leadership is necessary as we move forward.” The board appointed OpenAI CTO Mira Murthy Temporary CEO as the company went into free fall.
While the OpenAI board expressed hope to bring OpenAI “together” following Altman's departure, more than 500 OpenAI employees, 90% of the company's employees; to stop Altman was not reinstated and the board resigned.
Of course, you'll need to make sure The Mountain—in this case, tech behemoth and OpenAI's biggest investor Microsoft—isn't watching you play a game of Toons to take down the king. Microsoft, Business Insider It was reported that Altman only learned of the decision to remove Altman before he knew it.
Microsoft says it supports OpenAI, but CEO Satya Nadella appeared at OpenAI's Dev Day; announced The company announced on Twitter that it will hire Altman & Brockman to lead its new Advanced AI team at Microsoft.
After 72 hours of violence, both Altman and Brockman come back They moved on to OpenAI and their previous jobs, and a new board replaced the one that ousted Altman a week ago. For now, it's back to business as usual.
in the future
unnamed sources said. Reuters Altman was fired because the AI developer made a new AI breakthrough. “A dangerous human being” has led some to speculate that OPAI has achieved artificial general intelligence (AGI)—an autonomous system that is capable of most tasks beyond human capabilities. Rumors notwithstanding, GPT-5 Although Altman says the company is not working, the company will be officially listed on the roadmap in August. The new AI model.
Where OpenAI goes from here may well dominate 2024.
Edited by Ryan Ozawa.
