OpenAI won’t be developing GPT-5 “for some time” after requesting a break from entrepreneurs and experts

Sam AltmanCEO and co-founder of Open AIhas confirmed that his company will not be developing GPT-5, the presumed successor to its artificial intelligence chatbot GPT-4, “for some time”, after a group of tech entrepreneurs and experts from around the world called for it to stop . the systems for six months AI “more powerful than GPT-4”.

Altman has said the petition “missed most of the technical nuances of where we need the break” at a conference held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), which he attended via video conference.

Likewise, he has assured that his company is not developing a GPT-5, so the letter – which has already been signed by more than 25,000 people– seemed a bit “ridiculous”.

Although he agrees with the idea that OpenAI should “act with caution” as there is “increasing rigor in security issues” and that is “really important”.

“I also agree that as capabilities become increasingly serious, the security bar needs to be raised,” Altman said at the institution’s event.

However, the fact that OpenAI doesn’t work on GPT-5 doesn’t mean it doesn’t extend the capabilities of GPT-4.

For those most concerned about the rapid growth of this AI technologiesAltman’s announcement that OpenAI isn’t developing GPT-5 is hardly any consolation, as the company expands GPT-4’s potential by, for example, connecting it to the Internet and also providing a GPT-4.5as he did with GPT-3.5.

Likewise OpenAI it’s not the only one company that works on these kinds of tools.