2024-03-17 14:00:00
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, attended the cooperation program between Korean artificial intelligence (AI) startups and OpenAI held at OpenAI headquarters in San Francisco on the 13th (local time). Open AI “I visited (Korea) twice in the past six months and had great meetings with ‘two fantastic companies.’ I hope to create semiconductors together (with Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix).”
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, the world’s best artificial intelligence (AI) company that services ChatGPT, met with Korean Silicon Valley correspondents at its headquarters in San Francisco on the 13th (local time) and said this. He answered reporters’ question, ‘Do you have any plans to manufacture semiconductors with Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix?’ Previously, CEO Altman visited Korea on the 26th of last month and met with top executives of Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix. This is the first time that the position on this has been publicly mentioned to the Korean media.
CEO Altman made a surprise appearance at the ‘K Startup-Open AI Collaboration’ event held at the Open AI headquarters by the Ministry of SMEs and Startups on this day and answered questions from reporters and startups in detail. On this day, OpenAI unveiled its headquarters in Hays Valley, San Francisco, to Korean reporters for the first time. In the past, Elon Musk and Sam Altman co-founded OpenAI and held an event for the Ministry of SMEs and Startups at the ‘Pioneer Building’, which had been used as the headquarters since 2015, and interviews with correspondents were conducted at the new office about two blocks away.
When asked, ‘Do you have any plans to build your own semiconductors?’ he said, “We really want to create artificial general intelligence (AGI). We will do anything to reach AGI, whether we build something ourselves or not. “We will use all possible methods, whether we build it with partners or not,” he emphasized. AGI refers to AI that has the ability to think, learn, reason, and solve problems like humans. Pioneers in this field, such as Bill Gates, Elon Musk, and Jensen Huang, believe that the AGI era will arrive within 5 to 10 years.
It appears that the company is still in the process of looking for a global partner. He added, “However, we want to minimize the ancillary work required to build AGI, and we will decide whether to build our own AGI semiconductor team (silicon team) based on this basic philosophy.” He again indicated that he intends to collaborate with companies specializing in this field, such as Samsung Electronics or SK Hynix, rather than developing semiconductors on his own within Open AI.
He did not say anything about the release date of GPT-5, the next version of GPT-4 currently used in ChatGPT. But he was confident in its performance. “I don’t know exactly when it will be released or how good it will be, but I expect to see great progress in the next model,” Altman said. He also said, “There was a question about whether GPT has any limitations, and I can confidently say that it is not. I am very excited about the advanced inference function.”
The industry predicts that GPT-5’s reasoning ability has evolved remarkably to the point of surpassing the ‘singularity’. Recently, the humanoid robot demonstration video that this company collaborated with the humanoid robot company Figure AI became a hot topic. The robot shocked the audience by accurately picking up an apple and handing it to them when asked to “give me something to eat,” and even explaining the background of why it decided to give the apple.
When asked, ‘What are you most looking forward to when the AGI era begins, where AI has human-level intelligence?’ CEO Altman said, “Personally, there are many good things, but what I am most looking forward to is scientific discovery.” He added, “The AI model will lead to scientific discovery.” “It will really help us get up to speed.” He also said, “(Scientific discovery through AI) is the only sustainable driver of sustainable long-term economic growth.”
It was also predicted that AI learning speed is so fast that human-generated data will one day not be able to keep up. “At some point, we may reach a data barrier. We may or may not be able to break through it,” Altman said. “But in the long term, it is clear that human-generated data will not be enough. More with less data.” “We need a model that can learn things,” he said. However, the emergence of ‘AI agents’ that understand people’s words and do their work for them is still considered a thing in the distant future. “(AI agents) will eventually be forced to perform more and more tasks on the network,” he said.
OpenAI is currently the company that uses GPUs (graphics processing units) the most in the world. ChatGPT is used by 100 million people every week, and the video creation AI ‘Sora’, which will be released to general users within the year, is expected to require much more computing power than ChatGPT.
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