ALBAWABA – In a virtual appearance at the World Governments Summit, Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, the startup behind CharGPT, spoke to the AI minister of UAE, Omar Al Olama, regarding the country’s growing progress in Artificial Intelligence, describing it as a “regulatory sandbox” that would serve as a frontier to test new AI technologies before leading global regulations that control their use, as reported by Bloomberg.
Last week, Wall Street Journal reported that Altman is looking to gather investments for an over-the-edge tech initiative estimated at $5-$7 trillion with UAE as a potential partaker, the project is aimed to overcome hardware challenges for OpenAI by focusing on boosting global chip production, thus easing and expanding the growth of AI projects, with UAE’s top firm G42 according to Bloomberg being one of the main potential investors.
In his talk with the minister, according to Bloomberg, Altman said that it would be an intriguing experience if he could offer people access to the future in a controlled manner so they could try it out and see what makes sense and what went wrong or well, explaining that it is challenging to get “get all the regulatory ideas right in a vacuum,” adding that a unified set of rules is needed globally for AI future to advance, believing that UAE could be at the forefront of these conversations.
Altman also shared new plans for OpenAI to release more of their Large Language Models as Open Source, noting they have yet to reach a conclusion on which ones though, adding that the company is aiming to develop tools that would support developing nations that cannot handle the financial burden of building AI systems, with offerings to help them provide AI services.
