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18Jun/23Off

OpenAI’s Mira Murati: the woman charged with pushing generative AI into the real world


https://www.ft.com/content/73f9686e-12cd-47bc-aa6e-52054708b3b3

... “Our mission is to get to artificial general intelligence and figure out how to deploy that safely,” she said, referring to a future software that could perform a range of cognitive tasks at human level. “And so we’re always very careful not to lose sight of that.” Meanwhile, the company is reshaping the tech industry.

The launch of ChatGPT, which has about 100mn users a month according to SimilarWeb, led tech giants such as Google to redraw their AI strategy and rush out rival chatbots. Businesses around the world have begun to experiment with the technology in the belief it could transform industries from media, finance, law and professional services. ...

Murati said she supported the use of technical “guardrails” to reduce, erase or even prevent some of these dangers. 

“Progress is happening very fast, obviously,” she said. “But today, we use these systems more like assistive tools. We don’t rely on them blindly, or entirely. They’re more like tools that enhance our productivity [and] creativity.”

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