FUTURE PROGRAMMING

AI can be used to generate code based on a set of inputs and desired outputs. For example, an AI system might be able to generate code that sorts a list of numbers in ascending order. An AI system could also be used analyse an example of code that solves a particular problem, and then generate new code that solves a similar problem.

AI can be used to optimise code for efficiency and performance. An AI system might be able to identify sections of code that could be rewritten to run faster, or can suggest changes to the code that could improve performance, such as using a different algorithm or optimising loops.

AI can be used to automate the testing process by generating test cases and evaluating the output of a program. According to software company Parasoft, through the application of reasoning, problem solving, and machine learning, AI can be used to help automate and reduce mundane and tedious tasks in development and testing.

Sam Altman is a technology entrepreneur and investor.

Born in St. Louis, Missouri, he is the CEO of OpenAI, a research organisation that aims to advance artificial intelligence in a responsible and safe manner.

After dropping out of Stanford University as a computer science student in 2005, Altman co-founded the location-based social networking company Loopt, which provided a service for smartphone users that allowed them to share their location selectively with other people and was acquired by Green Dot Corporation in 2012.

He then served as the CEO of the technology incubator Y Combinator from 2014 to 2017. During his tenure, Y Combinator funded and supported many successful startups, including Airbnb, Dropbox, and Reddit.

Altman has also been an investor in various technology companies through his investment firm, Altman Ventures. He has served on the boards of directors of companies

such as OpenGov and Optimizely, and has advised numerous other startups.

As an advocate of nuclear energy, Altman is also chairman of the board for Helion and Oklo, two nuclear energy companies.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Altman helped fund and create Project Covalence which aimed to help researchers rapidly launch clinical trials in partnership with TrialSpark a clinical trial startup.

With all his hard work at Y Combinator and YC Group, Altman was recognised as a top investor under 30 by Forbes in 2015.

US$43.4mn

Loopt sold to Green Dot Corporation in 2012

Setting his sights on founding his own company, Altman co-founded OpenAI in 2015 with Elon Musk and other entrepreneurs. To fully focus on his new company. Altman transitioned to Chairman of YC in 2019.

2015:

Formation of OpenAI announced by Altman, Elon Musk, Greg Brockman, Reid Hoffman, Jessica Livingston, Peter Thiel, Amazon Web Services, Infosys, and YC Research

Since OpenAI’s founding, Altman and his team have released GPT-3, a language model trained on trillions of words from the Internet, the image creating tool DALLE 2, and last year released to the public the ultra powerful AI chat bot ChatGPT.

GPT-3 (short for "Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3") is one of the largest and most powerful language models currently available, with a capacity of 175 billion parameters. GPT-3 can be fine-tuned for a variety of language tasks, such as translation, summarisation, and question answering, and has been used to generate human-like text in a variety of settings. It has received significant attention in the media and the technology industry due to its impressive performance and potential to revolutionise natural language processing.

Unlike previous iterations of the GPT model, ChatGPT is specifically designed to serve a chatbot function. However, unlike other chatbots or intelligent software assistants, ChatGPT is much more adept at engaging in dialogue with its users and can even respond to feedback, request clarification, and iterate on its answers based on a user's response.

Please provide a creative idea for a magazine cover that would illustrate the huge popularity of ChatGPT at the start of 2023 and how the world needs to be ready for artificial intelligence everywhere.

In a tweet in December, Altman said it would be "a mistake to be relying on it for anything important" and that it's currently merely "a preview of progress" rather than the finished product.

“ChatGPT is incredibly limited but good enough at some things to create a misleading impression of greatness,” he said. “It's a mistake to be relying on it for anything important right now. It’s a preview of progress; we have lots of work to do on robustness and truthfulness.”

Microsoft backed OpenAI with $1bn in investment back in 2019. The two companies formed a multi-year partnership to develop artificial intelligence supercomputing technologies with the help of Microsoft's Azure cloud computing infrastructure.

Following ChatGPT’s launch, Altman said artificial general intelligence (AGI) will be the next major technological breakthrough, offering “amazing” upsides but also major challenges.

“There will be scary moments as we move towards AGI-level systems, and significant disruptions, but the upsides can be so amazing that it’s well worth overcoming the great challenges to get there,” he wrote.

“And we’ll see great benefits all along the way – they will make ChatGPT look like a boring toy. In particular, there are going to be significant problems with the use of OpenAI tech over time; we will do our best but will not successfully anticipate every issue.”