OpenAI CEO Sam Altman replied Twitter CEO Elon Musk and other tech leaders who recently signed a letter calling for a six-month freeze Research on artificial intelligence.

speaking at one case Last week at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Altman said he agreed with parts of that Open letter signed by Musk, Steve Wozniak and over 1000 other signatories, but noted that the letter must include technical nuances specifically addressing which areas of AI research need to be paused.

“I think it’s really important to proceed with caution and an increasing rigor on security issues,” Altman said. “The letter, I don’t think, was the best way to address it.”

“There are parts … I really agree with. We spent more than six months after completing the GPT-4 training before releasing it, so we took the time to really study the safety of the model – to really try to understand what’s going on and mitigate as much as possible – is important,” he added.

Altman said that an earlier version of the letter claimed OpenAI was currently training GPT-5, but he refuted the notion, claiming, “We won’t, won’t for a while, so it was kind of silly in that sense.” “

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Altman added that OpenAI will continue to be as honest as possible about its AI developments and encouraged the public to participate in testing and learn more about it.

“We believe that we will engage everyone in the discussion and take these systems out into the world – deeply imperfect even as they are in their current state – for people to experience them, think about them, understand the pros and cons. It’s worth the compromise, although we tend to embarrass ourselves in public and often have to change our minds with new data,” he said.

In the meantime, Microsoft Corporation co-founder Bill Gates And Google CEO Sundar Pichai called a break at AI…