On Friday, the Artificial Intelligence Board's behemoth OpenAI Suddenly shot The company's legendary CEO, Sam Altman, said Altman was “not consistently honest in his communications” and “no longer has confidence in his leadership of OpenAI.”
While the board said a search is underway for Altman's permanent replacement, it appointed OpenAI's chief technical officer, Mira Murathi, as interim CEO.
Altman has built a solid public image for himself through the countless events and government hearings he's attended since ChatGPT's debut last December, while Murathi is a far less well-known figure. Who is she and how can she lead the world's most famous AI company at a critical time for emerging technology?
Murati, an Albanian engineer who immigrated to Canada as a teenager, is the engineer primarily responsible for overseeing the development of several OpenAI products to date, including ChatGPT, the photo generator Dall-E, and the coding generator Codex. In the year Before joining OpenAI in 2018, she worked at several other tech startups, including Elon Musk's Tesla, where she helped develop the Model X crossover SUV.
Murthy seems to share the same views as her predecessor, Altman, regarding the need for meaningful AI regulation and the potential for apocalyptic harm to humanity if AI advances are left unchecked.
“There is a chance for truly horrific things, even horrific events,” Murthy said. Chance In an interview last month. “Also, you know, there's an existential threat that it's basically the end of civilization.
That said, Murthy expressed his opposition to slowing OpenAI's steady development clip and product launch in the name of preventing such dire outcomes.
Earlier this year, a gathering of more than 1,100 prominent tech experts and public figures, including Musk, Steve Wozniak and Andrew Yang He published an open letter When he asked AI companies to agree to a six-month freeze on advanced development in the name of public safety, Murthy pushed back on the request as naive.
Regarding the letter, Muratti said: “The idea of a pause assumes that we have deployed these models without much care and irresponsibility, but this is not the case,” Muratti said in the report. Fast company.
In the end, he appeared as Murat In the lock With Altman on the importance of working with governments and regulators to create AI regulation, she emphasized her belief that the world-changing technologies she's helping to reach their full potential only if they're allowed to grow and interact with the public.
“It's hard to build these technologies in a vacuum without interacting with the real world,” Murat said in April. Feedback is important to “make the model stronger and safer,” she said.
Edited by Andrew Hayward.
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