Last Updated: May 26, 2023, 13:24 IST
OpenAI is seeking to construct AI with correct ethics in place
OpenAI, the startup behind the wildly in style ChatGPT synthetic intelligence chatbot, mentioned Thursday it would award 10 equal grants from a fund of $1 million for these experiments.
(Reuters) – OpenAI, the startup behind the wildly in style ChatGPT synthetic intelligence chatbot, mentioned Thursday it would award 10 equal grants from a fund of $1 million for experiments that discover democratic processes to find out how AI software program ought to be ruled to handle bias and different elements.
The $100,000 grants will go to recipients who current compelling frameworks for answering such questions as whether or not AI should criticize public figures and what it ought to think about the “median individual” on this planet, based on a weblog put up asserting the fund.
Critics of AI techniques, like ChatGPT, say they’ve inherent bias because of the inputs used to form their views. Users have discovered examples of racist or sexist outputs from AI software program, relying on which queries they’re answering. Concerns are rising that AI working alongside search engines like google like Alphabet Inc’s Google and Microsoft Corp’s Bing might produce incorrect data in a convincing trend.
OpenAI, backed by $10 billion from Microsoft, has been main the decision for regulation of AI. Yet it just lately threatened to drag out of the European Union over proposed guidelines that it mentioned could also be too onerous.
“The current draft of the EU AI Act would be over-regulating, but we have heard it’s going to get pulled back,” OpenAI’s chief government Sam Altman advised Reuters. “They are still talking about it.”
The startup’s grants wouldn’t go far towards funding a lot AI analysis. Salaries for AI engineers and others working within the red-hot sector simply prime $100,000 and might run as excessive as $300,000 or extra.
AI techniques “ought to profit all of humanity and be formed to be as inclusive as attainable,” OpenAI said in the blog post. “We are launching this grant program to take a primary step on this route.”
The San Francisco startup said results of the funding could shape its own views on AI governance, though it said no recommendations would be “binding.”
(This story has not been edited by News18 staff and is published from a syndicated news agency feed – Reuters)
