The CEO of OpenAI, which enjoys the support of Microsoft, urges lawmakers to adopt new rules on technology. He warned that if the EU over-regulates their company's activities and the whole artificial intelligence industry, they may consider leaving the region.
In recent months, Altman has been meeting with politicians from various countries, with both British prime ministers and the French president, discussing the future of AI development ChatGPT, which is reaping success around the world. He believes the current regulatory bill is too restrictive and hopes for various revisions. EU industry chief Thierry Breton said the intended rules were not up for debate. OpenAI, according to the commission, does not meet European requirements for data governance, transparency, security and safety, its systems are not suitable for the European market, even considering such behaviour on the part of the company as a form of extortion. OpenAI has faced such problems before, when its operations were temporarily suspended in Italy for data protection violations and the use of copyrighted material to train its systems. Ultimately, it is unlikely that OpenAI will actually leave Europe, due to its significant economic market position, and plans to regulate AI are progressing steadily, with only minor possible changes.
The company has made ten grants of $100k each for experiments in democratic processes to see how AI software will handle bias, criticism of public figures, or global consideration of the "average individual." The grants are open to anyone who submits compelling frameworks to answer the questions. The problem with training AI is the data that serve as its source of information, as there are some racist and sexist statements. If it cooperates with the search engines Google and Bing in this process, it could produce convincingly incorrect information. With this grant, the company wants to bring in new ideas and have its own perspective influenced by the results.
A new player named Ernie 3.5 from Chinese company Baidu will soon enter the game for leadership in the AI sector, as an improved version of the Ernie bot, which hasn't exactly received enthusiastic responses, but at the same time has only been in the testing phase. However, it is questionable whether it will be able to compete with AI at the level of ChatGPT, but it can serve as an alternative that can keep the development of this technology moving forward.
