$100,000 Grants for Ideas on OpenAI, AI Governance, Telecom News and ET Telecom

By Greg Bensinger

OpenAI, the startup behind the popular artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT, announced Thursday that it will invest 1 million people in a democratic process to experiment with determining how AI software should be managed to combat bias and other factors. announced that it would give 10 equal grants from the dollar fund.

According to the blog post announcing the fund, the $100,000 grant is a persuasion to answer questions such as whether AI should criticize public figures and how it should consider the world’s “median individual”. It is said that it will be given to the recipient who presents a powerful framework.

Critics say AI systems like ChatGPT have inherent biases due to the inputs used to form the view. Users have found examples of racist or sexist output from AI software. Concerns are growing that AI, which works with search engines like Alphabet’s Google and Microsoft’s Bing, will produce convincingly false information.

Backed by $10 billion from Microsoft, OpenAI has led the call for regulation of AI. But it recently threatened to leave the European Union over proposed rules.

“The current draft EU AI law would be over-regulatory, but we hear it will be withdrawn,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told Reuters. “They are still talking about it.”

Startup grants don’t fund as much AI research. Salaries in red-hot fields such as AI engineers can easily exceed $100,000 and in some cases exceed $300,000.

In a blog post, OpenAI said AI systems “should be shaped to benefit all of humanity and be as inclusive as possible.” “We are launching this grant program to take a first step in this direction.”

The San Francisco-based startup said the outcome of the funding could shape its views on AI governance, but said no recommendations are “binding.”

Altman is a leading figure in calling for regulation of AI, while simultaneously rolling out new updates to ChatGPT and image generation tool DALL-E. Earlier this month, he told a U.S. Senate subcommittee that “if this technology doesn’t work, we could be going pretty wrong.”

Microsoft, too, recently backed comprehensive regulation of AI and vowed to incorporate its technology into its own products, competing with OpenAI, Google and startups to bring AI to consumers and businesses. .

Nearly every industry will see increased efficiency and reduced labor costs, along with concerns that AI could spread misinformation, factual inaccuracies, and what industry insiders call “hallucinations.” I am interested in the possibilities of AI.

AI is already behind some widely believed impersonations. Recently, a fake viral image of an explosion near the Pentagon briefly affected the stock market.

Despite calls for more regulation, Congress has failed to pass new legislation to slash big tech.