Sam urges legislators to the regulations that can “slow” in the artificial intelligence race against China

Sam Al -Tamman stressed the importance of the “Iira’s AI’s” efforts that slowed down through the unsuccessful regulations, as the CEO of Openai at Capitol Hill witnessed Thursday for the first time in two years and faced a large audience of friendly legislators.

The hearing, which focused on winning the race against China to control artificial intelligence in the world, focused the first appearance in Congress in Taman since his prominent testimony in May 2023, which prompted him to the global theater and sparked widespread media coverage just six months after the launch of ChatGPT.

Wearing your clothes in a dark gray suit, a blue tie, and a white shirt on Thursday, Altman faced little on the path of hostile questions or rush from American Senate members.

In response to Senator Ted Cruz, who asked about the extent of China’s proximity to the capabilities of the United States in artificial intelligence, the Germans replied, “It is difficult to determine the extent of our time, but I do not say a great deal of time.” He said he believed that models of Openai and Google and others are “the best models in the world”, but he added that continuing to win will require a “reasonable organization” “that does not slow us down.”

This spirit of innovation and entrepreneurship is a unique American, and continued, with the focus that “anything of this is missile science. We just need to continue doing the things that have worked for a long time and not making a ridiculous mistake.”

Oh, what a two -year difference. Altman’s testimony was far from its appearance of 2023, when the primary focus of the legislators was the safety and organization of artificial intelligence. Altman urged itself Congress at the time to implement the regulations of artificial intelligence techniques, while emphasizing potential risks if left without deterrence. He suggested establishing a new federal agency responsible for licensing artificial intelligence models and review, especially those that have capabilities that could pose great risks.

In order to be fair, the Thursday session, which Altman, CEO of AMD, Lisa Soo, CERWEAVE CEO, Michael Inrazer, and Microsoft President Brad Smith, was all related to geopolitical dangers to play in the era of artificial intelligence today, that is, his victory in the race to control the AI ​​worldwide by enhancing American capabilities and enhancement.

Altman’s ideal opportunity to expand Openai for countries has provided the global expansion of the Stargate Mega Data Center, which costs $ 500 million. “It can be almost unimaginable, but only if we take concrete steps to ensure that a copy of American democratic intelligence is based on democratic values ​​such as freedom and transparency, they prevail over one of the drawings,” said the future of artificial public intelligence (AGI), in his previously written testimony. This is especially important, as he emphasized, as artificial intelligence systems become more capable and people want to use more.

He said that meeting this request “requires more chips, training data, energy and super computers.”

“The infrastructure is the fate, and we need a lot of it.”

Many questions that pressured Altman deviated from Openai’s policies and commercial practices, but legislators dealt with Altman unlike the barbecue that other senior executives received at Capitol Hill. For example, Senator Amy Klopochar, who said she had never heard of “hallucinations” of artificial intelligence (although it was widely reported since the launch of ChatGPT), and it seems satisfied when Altman said that although Openai models are not 100 % accurate, “smart users” – meaning that people understand what they can do and what they cannot do With it. ”

When Senator Lisa Rochester gently asked Altman about the timing of Openai’s efforts to restructure her profitable work, Altman said it is grateful for an opportunity to explain “something complicated I think it has been distorted.” He explained that the company’s plan has always been to have a strong non -profit institution: “We hope that it will be one of the best profitable institutions, perhaps one day, the best non -profit resource in the world.” He added: “The restructuring of the arm -to -profit arm as a company of general interest with the same task,” It is possible for us to raise the capital needed to provide these tools and services at the level of quality and the level of availability that people want to use in our mission. “

However, there was a noticeable absence of signs to the integrity of artificial intelligence in Altman’s testimony, which was in a flagrant contradiction with his comments for the year 2023, which mentioned dozens of safety from artificial intelligence.

But Openai turned beyond recognition from the artificial intelligence research laboratory that broke into public awareness when Chatgpt first appeared. As of last summer, half of the Openai employees, who once focused on the long -term risks of the super print, left the company, including the founder and chief scientist Elia Soskfar. almost 20 % of the company It is now working in sales. Only yesterday, the CEO of Instacart Fidji Simo joined Openai as applications executive, supervising the company’s products offers and work operations.

Al -Tamman said in his previously written testimony: “Openai is not an ordinary company and will never be.” But it seemed completely reliable by concluding with an optimistic personal story about growth in Saint -Louis and obtaining the first Mac computer when he was eight years old, which he called a “division line” in his life.

“I can draw a straight line from that to the founding of Openai”. “I am a child of the Internet Revolution and I am proud to be one of the many fathers of the many artificial intelligence revolution.” On a recent visit to Saint Louis, he remembered his old home and looked at the upper floor window.

“The light was running, and I thought, I hope there would be some children there late at night, play with Chatgpt, with discovering how any company will come after that, and anything else will happen after artificial intelligence here as well. This is, for me, the magic of this country.”

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