OpenAI CEO Sam Altman does not trust ChatGPT's answers, reveals plans of building AI startups in India

By Divyanshi SharmaIn November 2022, ChatGPT was launched by Sam-Altman led OpenAI. The AI took quickly gained popularity for its human-like responses and unique abilities like solving code, simplifying complex statements, generating content ideas, composing music and writing essays etc. Soon, ChatGPT was being used by users for all sorts of things, and they all shared their experiences on social media. Sam Altman, the man behind it all, also shot to fame and the entire world came to know about the young start-up founder who knew how to program a macintosh at the age of 8 years.

Sam is currently in India and reportedly met with PM Narendra Modi earlier today to discuss AI and its potential. The OpenAI CEO later interacted with the media at Indraprasth Institute of Technology, New Delhi. While speaking to Business Today at the event, Sam Altman revealed that he doesn’t really trust ChatGPT’s answers and that AI is limited by hardware for now.

Sam Altman does not trust ChatGPT

“I trust answers generated by ChatGPT less than anybody else on Earth,” Altman said during the event, as per Business Today. ChatGPT has often been called out for its inaccurate responses. The AI chatbot also has a tendency to hallucinate and incidents of ChatGPT creating fake scenarios have surfaced more than once. The chatbot, in April, had falsely accused a US-based professor of sexually harassing a student when such an incident had never occurred. More recently, last month, a lawyer landed in legal trouble after ChatGPT cited fake cases in its research.

Sam Altman, during the event, also said that for now, AI is limited by hardware. ChatGPT requires massive resources for training. Reports had earlier revealed that OpenAI had used around 10,000 GPUs developed by Nvidia to train ChatGPT.

Coming to India,many people have been using ChatGPT for quite some time now. Talking about the same, Sam Altman said that it is ‘amazing to watch India embrace AI’ and that OpenAI plans on ‘building AI startups in India’. The OpenAI CEO, talking about India’s position when it comes to AI, said that the country is at the ‘centre of AI innovation’.

Altman also talked about regulating artificial intelligence and said that it should be done in a way that important innovation doesn’t get hampered.

“AI will be most transformative technology,” he said and added that it is “important to put guardrails on open source projects because they have been evolving exponentially. Will be very difficult for government’s, policymakers and regulators to regulate it. But it is important to ensure innovation is not stopped in the long run by over regulating.”

Union Minister on AI regulation

Sam Altman had made headlines last month when he appeared before a Senate Panel in the US and called for AI regulation. He had also called for the need of a governing body that would monitor AI across the world. Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar had reacted to Sam Altman’s statement. The Union Minister, according to a Moneycontrol report, had said that even though Sam Altman ‘is a smart man’ and has ideas about AI regulation, India has its own views on the same.

He was quoted saying by the publication, “Sam Altman is obviously a smart man. He has his own ideas about how AI should be regulated. We certainly think we have some smart brains in India as well and we have our own views on how AI should have guardrails.”

He added, “If there is eventually a United Nations of AI – as Sam Altman wants – more power to it. But that does not stop us from doing what is right for our digital nagriks (citizens) and keeping the internet safe and trusted.”