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Many new concepts have entered our lives with the development of technology and the spread of the internet. Really, would we believe it if they told us that we could see how a shoe or dress would look on our feet or on us before we buy it, thanks to an application on our mobile phone? Thanks to the development of artificial intelligence, these innovations that have entered our lives with such mobile phone applications or websites have been very useful, haven’t they? 🙂 On the other hand, some people think that artificial intelligence or technology will have fatal consequences in malicious hands. Of course, we need to respect them too. However, even before we come to the subject of OpenAI, we should say that, as a generation which destroyed by breaking the “Joysticks” of Amiga-500 or Atari, we kiss such technologies and hold them on our heads 🙂
In this point, we are sure that there are some words that have attracted your attention in the last two years. The words OpenAI and ChatGPT sound familiar, right 🙂 What about Sam Altman?
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, who was sensationally fired at the end of 2023, was reinstated by the board of directors under both public pressure and the threat of mass resignation from his employees. Naturally, everyone asked what was happening inside of the company the face of this situation.
So, what is the relationship with Elon Musk? Did you know that one of the founders of OpenAI is Elon Musk which has made a worldwide impact in the field of artificial intelligence?
OpenAI Whisper
On the other hand, it is clear that ChatGPT has become richer with each new version and started to become more involved in our daily lives. Some people ask it for delicious recipes and some ask support for homework, right? Recently, there are people who are trying to improve their English-speaking skills by speaking English with the application thanks to its voice feature OpenAI Whisper.
Isn’t technology a beautiful thing? 🙂 So, it would be great if we had at least a little knowledge about OpenAI and ChatGPT, which are so involved in our daily lives. Do you think we wouldn’t feel embarrassed if we couldn’t answer a question about artificial intelligence, ChatGPT or Sam Altman in any job interview?
In other words, using computers and mastering office programs will no longer be enough for us anymore to work in the software industry or technology companies. Accordingly, as stated by Noah Harari in his book Homo Deus, in the near future, as the average human lifespan becomes longer, a person will have to transform and have more than one profession throughout his life.
Open AI: Who Owns it?
As we mentioned before, there are also people who say that it would be very dangerous if artificial intelligence was used for evil purposes. In this context, it can be stated that; OpenAI is an artificial intelligence research and development organization dedicated to the responsible development of artificial intelligence. The name of the company literally translates as “open artificial intelligence” from the combination of the words open and artificial intelligence. OpenAI was founded on a cold December day in 2015 by Elon Musk and Sam Altman with $1 billion donation. Furthermore, this company, which was a non-profit foundation when it was founded, determined its main purpose as the fair and systematic development of artificial intelligence.
On the other hand, by 2018, Microsoft became a partner of the artificial intelligence research organization, which has now become a commercial organization, with an investment of 10 billion dollars. We think that if we say that, in addition to Microsoft, world-famous billionaire businessman Jeff Bezos is also among his investors, we will give an idea about the potential of the business.
Elon Musk and OpenAI
We mentioned that Elon Musk was among its founders. The institution, which was a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO), turned into a for-profit company after the departure of Elon Musk in 2018. Since then, Musk has not completely left this artificial intelligence-based company and continues his support as a donor and follows the project.
We all know Elon Musk’s fondness and interest in technology. At this point, there is no guarantee that he will not become a partner of OpenAI again in the future 🙂 In line with that, he will probably not be able to sit still and want to become an investor or partner in this artificial intelligence-based research firm again.
Dall-E 2 and OpenAI
OpenAI, which aims to provide free artificial intelligence to all humanity, has studies in many areas from education to health, from natural language processing to language learning. The most popular and well-known application is ChatGPT, which is also a chat application and is available for free.
Moreover, they have also launched the artificial intelligence-based DALL-E 2 program, which creates high-quality and high-resolution images from texts written on the basis of natural language processing technology. In this context, thanks to DALL-E 2, the program that understands written texts and creates images based on this text has become very popular in a short time.
- Text processing with ChatGPT,
- Creating images from texts with DALL-E 2,
- Perhaps it will be possible to practice speaking English with ChatGPT-4.
- Additionally, there are serious studies in the field of education and health in this context.
- You can make music with artificial intelligence with JukeBox 😊
- With Codex, you have the chance to code without knowing the coding language 🙂
- It is possible to work on meta learning robots with RoboSumo.
Sam Altman: The CEO
Samuel Harris Altman, born in 1985, was introduced to computers when he was 8 years old and was quickly discovered by his close family thanks to his talents. The interesting thing is that he left the computer education he received at Stanford University at the end of his first year 🙂 In other words, he threw himself into the centre of the market by saying that he did not need a diploma. At this point, we would like to point out here that not everyone may be as lucky as him 🙂
Sam Altman, who founded the mobile social networking application Loopt before he was even 20 years old, succeeded up to a point, and then sold his company with a good exit and became a partner in Y Combinator. Sam Altman, who was the CEO of Reddit for a short time, albeit for eight days, then left Y Combinator in 2020 and started working as the CEO of OpenAI.
Although it was announced that he left office on November 17, 2023, he was reinstated 1 week later, as we will share the details shortly. This process was quite painful and people who did not want Sam on the new board of directors were purged and dismissed.
Why was Sam Altman fired?
Although the details are unknown, a so-called project called the Q project is mentioned which is based on Artificial General Intelligence processing (AGI) and is determined to produce autonomous and robotic systems that will almost completely replace humans. At the end of the process, which started with a letter written to the board of directors by employees who were disturbed by this project, Sam Altman was fired from his position as the CEO of OpenAI. According to some, they were just looking for an excuse for Sam Altman’s firing due to his efforts to turn artificial intelligence into a commercial product before data security and responsible artificial intelligence tests were completed. However, it was a huge contradiction that Microsoft, one of the company’s major investors, immediately made an offer to Altman after he was fired and asked him to become the head of Microsoft’s artificial intelligence team.
On the other hand, shortly after his firing, 77 thousand employees of OpenAI wrote a letter to the board of directors and stated that “if Sam Altman is not reinstated, they will collectively move to the Microsoft artificial intelligence team in a short time.”
After all these developments, Adam Saltman was reinstated almost a week after he was fired and became the CEO of OpenAI again. Aren’t these intricate and complicated relationships? J
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella stated that Altman returned to his position in a much more stable and stronger manner with renewed board of directors and that he would step into innovations with much more enthusiasm.
At this point, it is time to give some information about the company’s most powerful product, ChatGPT. What are the main features and usage areas of the most powerful and most popular application of the real institution? Now let’s move on to this topic.
ChatGPT-4 : What is ChatGPT?
ChatGPT, which broke a record that is very difficult to break by reaching 100 million users worldwide at the end of its first two months on the market, has reached its 4th version with version renewals over time. The areas where ChatGPT is used and its importance, which is the subject of an article in itself, are very common. It is a chat bot or robot developed with natural language processing that can be used from correcting errors in the text to solving mathematical problems.
To put it in plainer and simpler language, when you enter some websites, you will automatically be asked “Hello, how can I help you?” in the bottom right corner. That person is an artificial intelligence-based bot and tries to guide you in the right direction depending on the answer you give. On the other hand, robots have recently become very popular in bank applications.
In other words, when you enter a bank’s application, a chat bot asks you about your transaction and tries to direct you to the correct menu. It should be noted at this point that all of these chats or bots are artificial intelligence-based natural language processing robots or chat bots such as ChatGPT.
What done with ChatGPT?
Some areas where ChatGPT is used can be listed as follows;
- Completing missing texts,
- Solving mathematical problems,
- Homework preparation support,
- Getting support in business-related correspondence,
- Getting help in project preparation,
- Getting support for English correspondence,
- Doing practice in speaking English out loud with ChatGPT-4
Developed by OpenAI, ChatGPT is quite different from the fixed and boring chat robots created to date, with its feature of giving humanoid and interesting answers. In some cases, you may even suspect that you are dealing with a living human being rather than an artificial intelligence robot 🙂
In this context, the risk that data security and automation robots pose a threat to the future of people remains on the agenda. Even Sam Altman stated that this is a very important issue and that as a company, they attach importance to data security and responsible artificial intelligence and that they pay attention to this issue in their work. Ultimately, it should be noted that; At the point where technology has come, it is not possible to escape from technology and applications such as OpenAI and ChatGPT and it is necessary to keep up with the times.
Meanwhile, the most talked about topic of the last period is generative artificial intelligence. Thanks to generative AI, it can produce new ideas and offer you suggestions. Over time, we will hear about this feature much more.
