New Delhi: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Friday said that he met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the national capital and discussed India’s incredible tech ecosystem with him.
Altman, who addressed students and others at the Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi (IIIT-Delhi) earlier this week, said he had a great conversation with Odi.
Altman tweeted, “Had a great conversation with @narendramodi discussing India’s incredible tech ecosystem and how AI can benefit the country.”
“Really enjoyed all my meetings with the people at PMOIndia,” he said.
Earlier, Altman said that the company behind ChatGPT is not currently training GPT5 – the successor to GPT4.
Altman told a conference organized by The Economic Times in Delhi, “We have a lot of work to do before GPT5. It takes a lot of time. We are not even close to it.”
“We are working on the new ideas we think we need, but we are no closer to beginning. There needs to be more security audits: I wish I could tell you the timeline for the next GPT,” he added.
Altman’s comments come amid growing concern among AI researchers and Big Tech executives about the speed at which the technology is developing.
In March, a number of top entrepreneurs and AI researchers, including Tesla and Twitter CEO Elon Musk and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, wrote an open letter urging all AI labs to immediately stop training AI systems more powerful than GPT-4. was asked for. At least six months.
More than 1,100 global AI researchers and executives signed an open letter calling for a halt to “all giant AI experiments”.
After a few weeks, Altman acknowledged that the letter lacked most technical specifics, but insisted that OpenAI had not started training GPT-5 and would not do so for “some time”.
In May, Altman acknowledged that generative AI technology can go horribly wrong if it gets it wrong, as US senators expressed their apprehensions about AI chatbots like ChatGPT.
Altman, who testified at a US Senate hearing in Washington, DC, said the AI industry needs to be regulated by the government as AI becomes “increasingly powerful”.