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Sam Altman Says OpenAI Doesn’t Fully Understand How GPT Works Despite Rapid Progress


“It does seem to me that the more we can understand what’s happening in these models, the better,” Altman said at an A.I. conference today.

In a live interview today (May 30) with Nicholas Thompson, the CEO of The Atlantic, at the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva, Switzerland, Altman spoke about A.I. Earlier this month, OpenAI released GPT-4o and announced this week that it has “recently begun training its next frontier model and we anticipate the resulting systems to bring us to the next level of capabilities on our path to AGI [artificial general intelligence].” Earlier this week, former OpenAI board members Helen Toner and Tasha McCauley published a joint opinion piece in the Economist on this decision, writing, “We believe that self-governance cannot reliably withstand the pressure of profit incentives.”

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