CTO OpenAI Was Worried About The Release Of ChatGPT To The Public, Why?

OpenAI Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Mira Murati. (Doc. OpenAI)

JAKARTA - OpenAI's Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Mira Murati, did not expect that her "child", ChatGPT, would be greeted enthusiastically when it was released last November. However, she was worried that the chatbot would be misused.

"We don't anticipate the level of joy from placing our child in the world. In fact, we are even afraid to put it there," said Murati, who is also the leader of the ChatGPT development team, in an interview with Time Magazine.

Murati did not explain how afraid was, however, she added, this Artificial Intelligence (AI) tool must be regulated because it can be used by bad actors.

In addition, ChatGPT may fabricate facts confidently spreading lies without the slightest being careful, the same as other AI-powered tools based on language models.

"Tantangan dengan (ChatGPT) adalah tantangan serupa yang kita lihat dengan model bahasa dasar yang besar, itu mungkin membuatkan fakta," tegas Murati.

ChatGPT has recently received various positive and negative responses from some circles as the future of everything, from search to education, and the problem of making it up will indeed be an important reason to have mixed feelings about launching it to the public.

"It is important for OpenAI and companies like us to bring this to public awareness in a controlled and responsible way," Murati said.

Then, of course, the threat of propaganda made by AI is cheap and effective and the barrier fence which is generally not strong is also not helpful, as quoted from Futurism, Wednesday, February 8.

Murati's comments also follow a report by the NYTimes revealing that OpenAI actually made the decision to release ChatGPT suddenly, giving employees only two weeks to prepare for the bot and launch it.

It is claimed, this is in an effort to ensure that the company, which was founded as a non-profit organization and focused on AI security, before switching to a non-profit model for the first time entering the market.

"This is a unique moment where we have an agency in shaping society. And it applies in two ways, technology forms us and we form it. There are many difficult problems to solve," Murati said.

He stressed, however, that OpenAI would need all the help it could get, including from regulators, governments, and everyone else. "It's not too early to set it up," Murati concluded.