Launched on November 30, 2022, Open AI’s ChatGPT has broken out of the gate at lightning speed.
The artificial intelligence-based information-sharing technology already has 173 million active users as of April 30, 2023. ChatGPT also saw a 576.6% rise in visits from December 2022 to April 2023.
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Now, even Microsoft (MSFT)-owned OpenAI may be looking to slow things down and take a deeper look into how artificial intelligence applications should be used with tools like ChatGPT.
That review process picked up steam at AI Forward, an artificial intelligence industry conference held in San Francisco this week.
The event, hosted by investment banking giant Goldman Sachs and SV Angel, a San Francisco-based venture capital firm, saw OpenAI senior executives reimagining where artificial intelligence is heading with chatbot technology.
One route to a more guardrail-oriented AI route is through a Wikipedia-like collectivist approach to gathering and sharing the raw information that shows up on ChatGPT and other AI chatbots.
"We’re not just sitting in Silicon Valley thinking we can write these rules for everyone," said Greg Brockman, president of OpenAI, to conference attendees. “We’re starting to think about democratic decision-making."
Brockman alluded to a Wikimedia-modeled approach to AI, where a unilateral decision-making process on what information is fed to AI chatbots gives way to a more collectivist approach, with many diverse hands on AI’s steering wheel.
“The governance of the most powerful systems, as well as decisions regarding their deployment, must have strong public oversight,” Brockman wrote in a separate May 22 blog post on OpenAI, along with company executives Sam Altman and Ilya Sutskever. “We believe people around the world should democratically decide on the bounds and defaults of AI systems.”
The blog post noted that OpenAI “doesn’t yet know how to design such a mechanism”, but said the company plans to “experiment with its development.”
“We continue to think that, within these wide bounds, individual users should have a lot of control over how the AI they use behaves,” the authors stated.
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