OpenAI CEO and co-founder Sam Altman says the company hasn't started developing GPT-5, the next generation of its GPT series of large language models.
Altman confirmed the news during an MIT event yesterday when he was asked about an open letter calling for a pause on large-scale AI systems development.
The letter called for a six-month break or longer on the training of any systems that are more powerful than GPT-4, citing worries that these projects pose "profound risks to society and humanity."
- On Thursday, Altman said OpenAI would not develop GPT-5 "for some time" after it released GPT-4 in March.
- Altman said the letter, signed by figureheads such as Steve Wozniak and Elon Musk, was "missing most technical nuance about where we need the pause."
- He said OpenAI is "doing other things on top of GPT-4 that I think have all sorts of safety issues that are important to address and were totally left out of the letter."
GPT-4, OpenAI's latest and most advanced large language model, accepts both text and images.
- For example, a user could upload a photo or image, and GPT-4 will respond with a text description or caption for what it "sees."
- It's available to the public through OpenAI's ChatGPT Plus paid subscription. OpenAI has also launched a waitlist for a GPT-4 API for developers.
