The boss of OpenAI, Sam Altman, has been on a global tour to charm national leaders and powerbrokers. ChatGPT burst into the spotlight late last year, demonstrating an ability to generate essays, poems and conversations from the briefest of prompts. "I disagree with almost all of that, but I will try to avoid a food fight here," said Altman. A major criticism of his products is that the firm does not publish the sources it uses to train its models. But Altman argued the bottom line was that critics wanted to know whether the models themselves were racist.

Source: The Star May 26, 2023 17:32 UTC