Who are OpenAI & What is ChatGPT? Meet the Experts on the Future of AI

In a world that is dominated by technology, each and every day there continue to be advancements in artificial intelligence – making the impossible possible. From self-driving cars to facial detection, the realms of artificial intelligence know no bounds, with over £16.7 billion spent on AI technologies in 2020. With AI adoption expected to reach over 1.3 million businesses by 2040, it is important for businesses to welcome the concept of using AI in order to stay ahead of the curve.

An exciting new development in the realm of artificial intelligence has emerged from the company OpenAI, an artificial intelligence research laboratory in America with the intention of creating a friendly AI. Launched in 2022, ChatGPT is a revolutionary chatbot developed by OpenAI. Read this post to discover more about this innovative form of artificial intelligence.

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Who Are OpenAI?

Launched in 2015, OpenAI is a leading artificial intelligence research laboratory, that consists of its non-profit arm, OpenAI Incorporated, and its for-profit arm, OpenAI Limited Partnership. Dedicated to creating a friendly AI, artificial intelligence that has a positive effect on humanity, OpenAI was created by Sam Altman, Reid Hoffman, Jessica Livingston, Elon Musk, Ilya Sutskever and Peter Thiel.

From the Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of LinkedIn to the CEO of SpaceX, the creators of Open AI all have a decorated career history in technology, joining forces to create one of the most powerful AI networks of the modern day.

What is ChatGPT?

Having launched its GPT platform, OpenAI continued to develop its artificial intelligence to launch ChatGPT in November 2022. A chatbot developed by OpenAI, ChatGPT is built on top of OpenAI’s family of language models, and allows users to mimic human conversation, delivering a range of articulate answers to a variety of questions.

ChatGPT is a generative pre-trained transformer, a form of AI that is fine-tuned using supervised learning and reinforcement learning, allowing the AI to mimic human conversation and behaviour. By using both methods of learning, the AI is able to improve performance and better impersonate human behaviour.

Features of ChatGPT:

ChatGPT was designed to function as a chatbot that can mimic human conversation, however, that is just one of the many features that this revolutionary form of AI can perform.

It can also do the following:

• Write and de-bug computer programmes
• Compose essays, music and stories
• Stimulate an entire chat room
• Play games such as Tic-Tac-Toe
• Answer test questions

What Are The Limitations of ChatGPT?

Artificial intelligence is a never-ending operation of trial, error and innovation. Despite its many advancements in the realm of AI, ChatGPT has its limitations. One of ChatGPT’s major limitations is that it can return ‘incorrect or nonsensical answers’ – often referred to as ‘artificial intelligence hallucination’.

Other limitations of ChatGPT are that the AI has limited information regarding events that happened post-2021, meaning that they have little knowledge of current events, and it can also suffer from algorithmic bias – systematic errors that can generate an ‘unfair’ outcome.

What Are The Implications of ChatGPT?

Due to ChatGPT’s ability to replicate human conversation, there are perceived implications of this artificial intelligence.

It is believed that ChatGPT could be used to write phishing emails and malware, which could lead to threats to cyber security. It is also believed that ChatGPT could be used by students in education, allowing them to generate essays without writing any of the content personally. The New York City Department of Education has taken the steps to restrict access to ChatGPT from their public school internet devices. There has also been software developed that assesses how much text is generated by an AI tool, combatting the possibility of academic plagiarism.

Who Is The CEO of OpenAI?

Sam Altman

Co-Founder and former CEO of Loopt, former President of Y Combinator, CEO of OpenAI & Co-Founder of Worldcoin.

A decorated entrepreneur, investor and computer programmer, Sam Altman has forged a respectable career as a pioneer of artificial intelligence. Renowned as the CEO of OpenAI, an American artificial intelligence research laboratory, Sam is determined to spearhead the next generation of friendly AI. Currently working to develop OpenAI, Sam has been in the Silicon Valley spotlight for over two decades, speaking on advancements in artificial intelligence, the pros and cons of using artificial intelligence and the danger of artificial intelligence.

Aged just 19, Sam became the Co-Founder of Loopt, a social networking mobile app using location-based technology. Despite gaining over $30 million in venture capital, Sam was forced to close Loopt after it failed to gain traction with users. Despite this setback, Sam remained determined to succeed as a technology entrepreneur, and later went on to become a partner of Y Combinator – a technology start-up accelerator. Promoted to become the President of Y Combinator in 2014, Sam worked at the helm of a company that had over $65 billion in investments and worked with clients such as Dropbox and Airbnb. After transitioning to Chairman of Y Combinator in 2019, Sam left Y Combinator in 2020. Since then, Sam has dedicated his interests to angel investing, investing in companies such as Pinterest, Asana and Reddit.

As the CEO of OpenAI, Sam is on a mission to advance artificial intelligence in a way that will benefit humanity as a whole. With an avid interest in artificial intelligence and technology, Sam has also become the Co-Founder of Worldcoin – a company that is committed to giving every human on Earth access to digital money through iris recognition. Aside from his interests in artificial intelligence, Sam is also involved in the nuclear energy industry, currently working as the Chairman of the Board for Helion and Oklo, often speaking on how ‘nuclear energy is one of the most important areas of technological development’.

With such a prominent career in artificial intelligence to his name, Sam is now highly sought after to speak on his expertise surrounding AI. Encouraging the adoption of AI, Sam details how companies can use artificial intelligence to accelerate their business and stay ahead of the curve. A seasoned speaker, Sam has previously spoken at London Tech Week in 2022, and delivered the Talks At Google speech The Winding Path of Progress. When looking for an expert to speak on the positives of the adoption of AI, there are few speakers with such expertise as Sam Altman – having also been named the Top Investor Under 30 by Forbes and as one of the Best Young Entrepreneurs in Technology by Businessweek.

Conferences Sam Altman Has Spoken At:

Sam Altman has formerly spoken at the following conferences:

• London Tech Week 2022
• Big Compute Conference
• Hope Global Forums
• MUN Impact Global Summit

Speaking on the following topics:

• Applying moonshot thinking
• Artificial intelligence
• OpenAi
• ChatGPT

Who Is The President of OpenAI?

Greg Brockman

President and Chairman of OpenAI, former CTO of Stripe.

Greg Brockman is a revered figure in the world of AI, having dedicated his career to empowering the adoption of artificial intelligence and spreading its positives. Famed as the President and Chairman of OpenAI, Greg has made his mark on some of the company’s largest models from Gym to API and OpenAI Five. Having also administered and built systems for the Harvard Computer Society during his studies at Harvard University, Greg has a breadth of knowledge that spreads across all aspects of technology, artificial intelligence and computing. Highly sought after to deliver a range of talks and conferences on his expertise, Greg has formerly spoken at the likes of CoinSummit, HNLondon and QConSF.

Having earned degrees in Mathematics and Computer Science at Harvard University and Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Greg began his career working as the Chief Technology Officer of Stripe. A leading financial infrastructure, Greg sat at the helm of a company used by the world’s largest enterprises to accept payments and accelerate new business opportunities. On a mission to increase the GDP of the internet, Greg worked as the CTO of Stripe for five years, before becoming the Co-Founder, President and Chairman of OpenAI. Believing that artificial intelligence has the power to change humanity, Greg is dedicated to ensuring that all companies are able to integrate AI into their organisations.

Named in the 30 Under 30 in Enterprise Technology by Forbes in 2018, Greg’s impact on the world of technology and artificial intelligence has been exemplary. A leading figure in Silicon Valley, Greg is now regularly sought as a speaker for the biggest technology, computing and artificial intelligence conferences across the globe. He has previously spoken at CoinSummit, speaking on what a Bitcoin for the mainstream may look like, and at the 2014 Monkigras talk on building better software through mathematics. He has also spoken at QConSF about building a culture where software projects get done, solidifying his reputation as an expert in the realms of technology.

Conferences Greg Brockman Has Spoken At:

Greg Brockman has formerly spoken at the following conferences:

• Artificial Intelligence Conference
• CoinSummit
• HNLondon
• QConSF
• Scale TransformX Conference

Speaking on the following topics:

• OpenAI and the path towards safe AGI
• Artificial intelligence
• OpenAI & ChatGPT

Who is the Chief Scientist of OpenAI?

Ilya Sutskever

Co-Founder and Chief Scientist of OpenAI

Ilya Sutskever is a revered computer scientist, pioneering machine learning and the field of deep learning. Famed as one of the Co-Founders and the Chief Scientist of OpenAI, Ilya has worked tirelessly to pioneer the development of artificial intelligence and integrate it into businesses across the globe. Elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society, Ilya is highly sought after to share his expertise at some of the world’s biggest conferences, having previously spoken as a keynote speaker at NVIDIA NTECH during the 2018 Al Frontiers Conference.

Achieving a Bachelor’s Degree in Mathematics and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Toronto, Ilya began his illustrious career working as a Postdoc at Stanford University. In 2012, Ilya became the Co-Founder of DNNResearch, a leading research company that was eventually acquired by Google. In 2013, after DNNResearch’s acquisition, Ilya was hired as a Research Scientist at Google, pioneering research for one of the world’s leading digital companies. After two years working for Google, Ilya became the Co-Founder and Research Director of OpenAI, before being promoted to Chief Scientist in 2018.

Renowned across the industry, Ilya was honoured with recognition in the MIT Technology Review 35 Innovators Under 35. Prior to his work with OpenAI, Ilya was the Co-Inventor of AlexNet, a convolutional neural network, and was also one of the authors of the AlphaGo paper. Highly sought for his expertise in AI adoption, Ilya has formerly spoken at the Machine Learning Conference and the Scale TransformX Conference. When hired as a speaker, Ilya speaks on the importance of adopting artificial intelligence to generate business growth and stay ahead of the curve.

Conferences Ilya Sutskever Has Spoken At:

Ilya Sutskever has spoken at the following conferences:

• Machine Learning Conference
• Conference Cast
• Scale TransformX Conference
• RE.WORK Deep Learning Summit

Speaking on the following topics:

• Machine learning and the market for intelligence
• OpenAI
• What’s next for AI systems and language models
• Recent advances from OpenAI

What is the Importance of Adopting AI?

With 35% of companies reporting using AI in their business and 42% of businesses exploring the use of AI, it is highly important to adopt the use of AI to stay ahead of the curve. It is also believed that AI can save crucial time for executives, with 30% of global IT professionals stating that using AI tools saves them time.

It is also expected that AI will help companies to achieve their sustainability goals, with 66% of companies either executing or exploring AI to address their sustainability policies.

Source: IBM

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