No Work In Progress For GPT-5 As Of Now, OpenAI CEO Confirms

OPENAI, the AI research that shot to fame with its AI language model ChatGPT. Currently, GPT-4 is the latest version that powers the AI engine. Amid concerns about the vulnerabilities that AI models like ChatGPT come with, Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, quashed rumours that GPT-5 is undergoing training.

During an event at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the CEO was questioned on an open letter signed by top tech executives to pause training of powerful systems than GPT-4 by AI labs due to the adjoining threats with these models. According to Altman, who joined via a live video, the letter was silent on peculiar details about where the firm should pause.

The memo was "missing most technical nuance about where we need the pause," the OpenAI boss said. Further, he refused the fact that GPT-5 was undergoing training, unlike what "an earlier version" of the letter claimed. "We are not and won't for some time," said Altman referring to GPT-5's training.

While the latest model is not in development, the tech firm is working to address "safety issues" that are important. "We are doing other things on top of GPT-4 that I think have all sorts of safety issues that are important to address and were totally left out of the letter," he adds. Further, the CEO reveals GPT-4 went public after over six months of conditioning.

Meanwhile, coming to the background of the open letter, top dignitaries like Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak and others supported the letter urging the AI firms to pause the training of powerful models backed by artificial intelligence. The possible threats posed by AI to jobs, personal data of users, misuse in the education sector and more are often flagged by experts.

For the unversed, ChatGPT is a language model developed by the AI research company OpenAI. It rose to fame because of its skill set to answer a diverse range of queries in a conversational form. At present, it witnesses over 100 million active users every month. It is powered by the GPT-4. GPT-4 is a large multimodal model launched last month, claiming to demonstrate human-like performance on several benchmarks.