OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman Says We're Not Training GPT-5 And We Won't For Some Time

During a conversation about potential risks associated with AI systems, Sam Altman, co-founder and CEO of OpenAI, confirmed that the organization is not training GPT-5, the anticipated successor to its GPT-4 AI language model, which was released in March. Altman made this statement while speaking at an event held at MIT, where he was asked about an open letter circulated among the tech community. The letter requested that labs such as OpenAI must pause the development of AI systems that are "more powerful than GPT-4" due to concerns about the safety of future systems. However, the letter has been criticized by numerous industry professionals, including some of its signatories. Experts disagree on the level of threat posed by AI, as well as on how the industry can "pause" development in the first place. Altman stated that the letter "lacks most of the technical nuances about where we need the pause" and highlighted that an earlier version of the letter had claimed that OpenAI was currently training GPT-5.