OpenAI will not develop GPT-5 “for some time” after the request for a pause from experts around the world

sam altmanCEO and Co-Founder of Open AIhas confirmed that his company will not develop 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 be discontinued. for six months the systems AI “more powerful than GPT-4”.

Altman has said that the petition was “missing most of the technical nuances of where we need the pause” during a conference held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), which he has attended by videoconference.

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

Although he has agreed with the idea that OpenAI has to “move with caution”, since there is “increasing rigor in security issues” and that is “really important”.

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

However, the fact that OpenAI is not working on GPT-5 does not mean that it is not expanding the capabilities of GPT-4.

For those most concerned about the rapid growth of these AI technologiesAltman’s announcement that OpenAI is not developing GPT-5 is hardly consoling, as the company is extending the potential of GPT-4 by connecting it to the Internet, for example, and could also release a GPT-4.5as he did with GPT-3.5.

Likewise, OpenAI it’s not the only one company that is working on this type of tools.