OpenAI Now Starts $100,000 Grants For Ideas On AI Governance

(Reuters) – OpenAI, the startup behind the wildly well-liked ChatGPT synthetic intelligence chatbot, stated Thursday it should award 10 equal grants from a fund of $1 million for experiments that discover democratic processes to find out how AI software program ought to be ruled to deal with bias and different elements.

The $100,000 grants will go to recipients who current compelling frameworks for answering such questions as whether or not AI should criticize public figures and what it ought to contemplate the “median individual” on the planet, in keeping with a weblog publish saying the fund.

Critics of AI methods, like ChatGPT, say they’ve inherent bias as a result of inputs used to form their views. Users have discovered examples of racist or sexist outputs from AI software program, relying on which queries they’re answering. Concerns are rising that AI working alongside search engines like google like Alphabet Inc’s Google and Microsoft Corp’s Bing might produce incorrect data in a convincing trend.

OpenAI, backed by $10 billion from Microsoft, has been main the decision for regulation of AI. Yet it not too long ago threatened to tug out of the European Union over proposed guidelines that it stated could also be too onerous.

“The current draft of the EU AI Act would be over-regulating, but we have heard it’s going to get pulled back,” OpenAI’s chief government Sam Altman instructed Reuters. “They are still talking about it.”

The startup’s grants wouldn’t go far towards funding a lot AI analysis. Salaries for AI engineers and others working within the red-hot sector simply high $100,000 and may run as excessive as $300,000 or extra.

AI methods “ought to profit all of humanity and be formed to be as inclusive as doable,” OpenAI said in the blog post. “We are launching this grant program to take a primary step on this path.”

The San Francisco startup said results of the funding could shape its own views on AI governance, though it said no recommendations would be “binding.”

(This story has not been edited by News18 staff and is published from a syndicated news agency feed – Reuters)