01. The road ahead
When you are immersed in the disruptive and refreshing experience that ChatGPT brings, have you ever thought that it was not ChatGPT that disrupted our work model, but its founder Altman who pulled us into the world of artificial intelligence.
It is the good-looking man below, who is the person who developed ChatGPT, also known as the "father of ChatGPT".
Sam Altman, who studied computer science at Stanford University, later founded a location-based social networking company called Loopt. In 2005, the company entered Y Combinator, the most famous startup incubator in the United States, and became one of the first startups. Soon, Altman sold the company and used the money he earned to enter the venture capital world, becoming a young entrepreneur and venture capitalist. Later, Y Combinator hired him to manage the incubator.
Altman sees that as technology develops, the road ahead leads to Artifical General Intelligence. Artificial general intelligence has the ability to reason, use strategies, solve problems, and make decisions when there are uncertain factors; the ability to represent knowledge, including common sense knowledge; planning capacity; ability to learn; the ability to communicate using natural language; The ability to integrate the above capabilities to achieve a set goal.
Once developed, it can do anything. So, in 2014, Google did something big, it acquired an artificial intelligence company, DeepMind. The company soon developed the artificial intelligence Go software AlphaGo.
Subsequently, Internet users knew about the next two big events: on March 9, 2016, AlphaGo fought Go champion Lee Sedol and won 4:1. A year later, the new version of AlphaGo defeated Go champion Ke Jie 3-0. The later AlphaZero, which was released, taught itself three different board games: chess, Go and Japanese shogun chess in three days without human intervention.
At this point, everyone realized: artificial intelligence has developed to a kind of intelligence that humans have never seen before.
02. Layout
As a technologist and venture capitalist, Altman saw Google's ambition and strength back in 2015, and he believes Google will soon have a monopoly on the technology. In order to break this monopoly, he began to lay out.
So one night in July 2015, Altman hosted a private party at the luxury ranch-style Rosewood Sand Hill in the heart of Menlo Park's Silicon Valley venture capital industry.
In addition to Altman, there were Musk, Brockman and others attending the banquet, all of whom were experienced artificial intelligence researchers. They all believe AGI is viable. To make sure that Google's monopoly on general artificial intelligence doesn't happen, they are talking about forming a lab to compete with Google, which is OpenAI, the artificial intelligence research company that has recently become popular around the world.
On December 11, 2015, OpenAI, founded by Altman, Musk, and Peter Thiel, co-founder of the global online payment platform PayPal, and other Silicon Valley technology tycoons, was established. It is a non-profit organization operated with a clear commitment to democratizing the benefits of advanced AI.
To this end, Musk also specifically posted this message on the Internet:
Over the next few years, under Altman's leadership, OpenAI's technical team developed by leaps and bounds:
In 2016, OpenAI launched Gym, a platform that allows researchers to develop and compare reinforcement learning systems that teach AI to make decisions with the best cumulative return.
That same year, OpenAI also released Universe, an open-source platform that measures and trains AI's general intelligence in almost any environment, with the goal of enabling AI agents to use computers like humans.
In June 2018, OpenAI launched a GPT-1 model with 117 million parameters.
In 2019, the OpenAI team launched the GPT-2 model.
In 2020, the OpenAI team launched the GPT-3 model, which has attracted widespread attention and research in the field of natural language processing and is considered to be one of the most advanced natural language processing technologies at present.
03. Subversion
In the following years, netizens were pulled by the epidemic and paid little attention to the new things in the technology world. Until November 30, 2022.
On this day, the people of the earth are reveling. The mainland manned space project has been recorded in history, indicating that the mainland's science and technology have developed to a height unmatched on the earth, and the people of the whole country are cheering.
It was also on this day that the internet in the West was also reveling, as OpenAI's CEO Altman tweeted: "Today we launched ChatGPT, try to talk to it here", followed by a link where anyone can sign up for an account and start talking to OpenAI's new chatbot, ChatGPT, for free. It heralds the entry of artificial intelligence into the world of every netizen and will subvert people's working patterns.
The impact of ChatGPT continues to this day. Everyone is getting close to this "super baby" in various ways. Everyone is speculating about what this super baby will look like in the future. Everyone is more expectant and excited. As a developer of ChatGPT, Altman, the father of ChatGPT, is full of hidden worries about the future.
After the release of GPT-4, Altman admitted in an interview that he was "a little scared" of ChatGPT and warned that it could reshape society and "wipe out" many jobs
No matter what ChatGPT looks like in the future, whether it subverts human society or humans control it, this is an afterthought.
What we need to know today is that its founder, Altman, was destined to become a person written into the history of science and technology because of the layout eight years ago.