Hold onto your hats folks, because we’ve got some juicy news for you today. According to reports, Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, has slammed Steve Wozniak’s proposal for a six-month AI research halt. But wait, before you get all worked up, Altman did say that the letter was “missing most technical nuance about where we need the pause.” Burn.

Altman shared his thoughts during a video appearance at an MIT event that discussed business and AI. You know it’s going to be a good time when business and AI are in the same sentence. It’s like the peanut butter and jelly of the tech world, folks.

OpenAI is responsible for creating ChatGPT, an AI bot that can answer questions like a real human being. And let’s be real, if we wanted to talk to robots, we’d just call the customer service line. But ChatGPT kicked off an AI frenzy in the tech world. Microsoft uses OpenAI’s technology in its Bing chatbot and Google launched its competitor Bard. It’s like the Hunger Games, but for bots.

But Altman isn’t totally against caution when it comes to AI. “I think moving with caution and an increasing rigor for safety issues is really important,” said Altman. “The letter I don’t think was the optimal way to address it.” Yeah Steve, take that.

Back in March, Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak, and a whole bunch of academics called for an immediate pause to AI language models that were “more powerful than GPT-4.” Over 25,000 people hopped on board with this idea since then. And by the sounds of it, Altman was not impressed.

Think back to 2022 when ChatGPT launched and everyone lost their minds. Well, let’s be real, people are still losing their minds over it. OpenAI’s GPT technology is the backbone of Microsoft’s Bing AI chatbot and has prompted a whole bunch of AI investment. It’s like people can’t get enough of talking to bots. We’re starting to get a little anxious that they might take over soon.

A little bit scary? Yeah, we’d say so. Altman recently admitted that AI technology makes him a little bit scared, which feels like the understatement of the century. Safe and ethical AI use is now being questioned by pretty much everyone, including the White House, Capitol Hill, and boardrooms across America. Looks like we’re all in this AI thing together.

At the end of the day, Altman did agree that safety measures for AI need to increase as the technology gets more advanced. “We are 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,” said Altman. Sounds like Altman isn’t ready to hit pause just yet.

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