It looks like Sam Altman had a ‘fan following moment’, as Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI, made it very clear that he admires OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, as reported by The Verge.
Reportedly, during an interview at the Aspen Ideas Festival on Tuesday, Mustafa Suleyman said that he admires Sam Altman.
“I think it’s a great thing that technologists and entrepreneurs and CEOs of companies like myself and Sam, who I love dearly and think is awesome, are talking about regulation. He is not cynical, he is sincere. He believes it genuinely,” says Mustafa Suleyman.
Mustafa Suleyman further added that “Maybe it’s because I’m a Brit with European tendencies, but I don’t fear regulation in the way that sort of everyone seems to by default,” describing all of this finger pointing by the former employees as a “healthy dialogue.”
Reportedly, a group of former OpenAI employees had signed a letter earlier this month mentioning their fears that OpenAI and other AI companies are not taking safety seriously enough. In the light of this, Suleyman seems to have proclaimed his love and trust for Altman.
The ‘AI race’ ahead
CNBC’s Andrew Ross Sorkin had asked what the plan will be when Microsoft’s enormous AI future isn’t so closely dependent on OpenAI, using a metaphor of winning a bicycling race. As reported by The Verge, Suleyman had sidestepped and disagreed with the fact that there is an ‘AI race.’ “I don’t buy the metaphor that there is a finish line. This is another false frame,” Suleyman said.
“We have to stop framing everything as a ferocious race. It is true that we have ferocious competition with them,” Suleyman said about OpenAI. He also explained that he wants to see both regulation and a slower pace of AI adoption.
Furthermore, “They are an independent company. We don’t own or control them. We don’t even have any board members. So they do entirely their own thing. But we have a deep partnership. I’m very good friends with Sam, have huge respect and, trust and faith in what they’ve done. And that’s how it’s going to roll for many, many years to come,” Suleyman highlighted.
He also said that China is “building their own technology ecosystem, and they’re spreading that around the world. We should really pay close attention.” Reportedly he believes that we need to find ways to cooperate, be respectful of them, whilst also acknowledging that we have a different set of values.
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