OpenAI eager on supporting startups, training in India

OpenAI chief government Sam Altman, who’s on a go to to India, mentioned that the corporate is dedicated to backing startups within the nation, with conversations are already underway to facilitate this initiative. He additionally mentioned that training is without doubt one of the areas that he’s most enthusiastic about.

The OpenAI CEO mentioned that backing startups in India takes increased precedence than opening an workplace in India for the time being. “The vitality we’ve seen from startups right here, we’re very excited to determine how we will help them,” he said, adding “We had some conversations yesterday with Indian startups and we would love to invest in Indian startups.”

Altman met with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday and mentioned alternatives for synthetic intelligence in India, he mentioned whereas talking at an occasion within the Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Delhi.

“We talked concerning the alternatives for AI in India and likewise the necessity to consider international regulation,” Altman said, during the fireside chat hours after the meeting with the PM. He said that he is most excited about education. “We had a chat with the PM on it (education) earlier today and we would love to work with India on this,” he mentioned.

Altman additionally reiterated the significance of regulation in AI and the necessity to transition to scrub vitality for coaching these fashions. “We need to be web zero instantly. We are a whole lot of cooling concepts that don’t evaporate recent water.”

The ChatGPT maker raised $175 million to launch a startup fund to again startups which might be engaged on pushing the boundaries of AI final month. The agency has been backing AI startups for some time. In November 2022, it mentioned that it’ll present $1 million every to 10 AI startups and likewise give them early entry to its techniques. However, Indian startups have to date not obtained backing from OpenAI, although many have adopted ChatGPT and GPT-4 (the underlying platform of ChatGPT) shortly.

According to Stanford University’s annual AI Index report, printed in April, India obtained the fifth highest funding in AI startups on the earth in 2022 after the US, China, UK and Israel. Indian AI startups raised $3.24 billion final yr.

The Chennai-based conversational AI startup Uniphore raised $400 million in February, the biggest by an Indian AI startup, taking its valuation to $2.5 billion.

“We are designing techniques now which have important vitality utilization,” Altman mentioned, including that the business ought to push {hardware} as a lot as it might probably, whereas concurrently pushing for optimization of fashions.

OpenAI is a San Francisco-based AI startup, which created highly effective giant language fashions (LLMs) reminiscent of GPT-3.5 and GPT4.

The Microsoft-backed startup raised $300 million at a valuation of $29 billion in April. Its largest investor Microsoft has reportedly invested near $10 billion in it and has used its know-how to supply new companies and merchandise reminiscent of Azure OpenAI, Microsoft 365 Copilot and Bing Chat.

Last Month, Sam Altman mentioned in his testimony earlier than a US Senate committee that governments ought to create an oversight company to control and licence AI firms. He additionally mentioned that AI firms like his personal must be independently audited. Altman additionally signed an open letter, printed by Center for AI Safety, which warned that AI poses a danger of extinction to people. The letter was additionally signed by a number of different business executives and scientists together with Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, AI scientist Geoffrey Hinton, Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott, and Stability AI CEO Emad Mustaque.

Altman’s testimony comes at a time when there’s a rising concern concerning the potential dangers of AI, particularly generative AI, which may use information to generate human-like content material, reminiscent of photos, textual content, and music in seconds. Its draw back is that it’s liable to hallucination and might generate deceptive and dangerous content material.

In March, a number of executives led by Elon Musk have additionally known as for a six-month moratorium on the event of extra superior AI fashions.

Early this week, India’s IT business physique Nasscom launched tips to determine widespread requirements for the accountable analysis, improvement, and use of generative AI in India. The tips intention to assist the business use generative AI for societal good and construct belief within the know-how.

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Updated: 08 Jun 2023, 10:30 PM IST