Former OpenAI executive Mira Murati They say it may take decades, but aye The system will eventually perform a wide range of cognitive tasks just like humans do – a potential technological milestone widely known as artificial general intelligence, or AGI.
“Right now, it seems quite achievable,” Muratti said at WIRED's The Big Interview event in San Francisco on Tuesday. In his first interview since Resignation from the post of Chief Technology Officer of OpenAI In September, Murati told WIRED's Steven Levy that he is not too concerned about recent talk in the AI industry that developing more powerful generative AI models is proving challenging.
“Current evidence suggests that progress will likely continue,” Muratti said. “There is not a lot of evidence to the contrary. Whether we need new ideas to reach AGI-level systems is uncertain. “I am very optimistic that progress will continue.”
The comments reflect his enduring interest in trying to find a way to bring increasingly capable AI systems to the world despite his separation from OpenAI. Reuters reported In October Murati founded his own AI startup to develop proprietary models and could raise more than $100 million in venture capital funding. On Tuesday, Murati declined to elaborate on the venture.
“I'm figuring out what that's going to look like,” she said. “I'm in the middle of it.”
Muratti started in aerospace and then at Elon Musk's Tesla, where he worked on the Model S and Model X electric cars. He also oversaw product and engineering and helped manage services at virtual reality startup Leap Motion before joining OpenAI in 2018. chatgpt And Dall-eeHe Became one of OpenAI's top executives And was in charge for a short time last year While the board members Wrestled with the fate of CEO Sam Altman,
Mira Muratti and Steven Levy in The Big InterviewPhotograph: Tristan DeBrouwere
When Muratti resigned, Altman credited him for providing support during difficult times and considered him instrumental in the development of OpenAI.
Muratti did not publicly explain why he left OpenAI, except that it was the right time to pursue personal exploration. Dozens of early OpenAI employees has left non profitable In recent years, some have been frustrated by Altman's increasing focus on generating revenue rather than pursuing purely academic research. Muratti told WIRED's Levy that there was “too much obsession” with the departures and not enough attention to the essence of AI development.
He pointed to work on producing synthetic data to train models and increasing investment in computing infrastructure as important areas to pursue. Breakthroughs in those areas will someday enable AGI, he said. But it's not all technical. “This technology is not intrinsically good or bad,” she said. “It comes with both sides.” It's up to society to collectively nudge the models toward the good, Muratti said — so we're well prepared for the day AGI comes.