Until the ouster of OpenAI co-founder and CEO Sam Altman, Mira Murati was the company's "secretive" CTO. But while Altman was the public face of OpenAI, Murati was the real star of the tech company.
In addition to leading the teams that develop tools like ChatGPT and Dall-E, Murati's job is to make sure those products stay on track, don't mislead people, show bias, or eliminate humanity.
Mira Murati, interim CEO of OpenAI. (Photo: Wired)
In an interview with Wired, Mira Murati said her background is in engineering and she has experience working in aerospace, automotive (developing the Model X for Tesla), VR and AR.
The 34-year-old CEO believes that artificial general intelligence (AGI) will be the most important technology, so she decided to join OpenAI in 2018. From there, she began researching supercomputing strategy and managing several research teams.
AI research has traditionally been done in labs, but Murati is keen to test these products with the public. She believes that building artificial general intelligence (AGI) solely in the lab could have a larger impact on society when it actually emerges, which would be destructible. Fine-tuning large language models through reinforcement learning and human feedback is a more effective way to tackle any AI challenge, and a way to get the public involved in the conversation.
Murati shared her most memorable moment at OpenAI when she discovered GPT-3's ability to translate languages fluently. "I speak Italian, Albanian, and English. I remember once asking GPT to translate English to Italian and surprisingly, even though I had never trained it in Italian, it did a pretty good job," she said.
Since OpenAI released its products, there have been many questions about their immediate impact on issues like copyright, plagiarism, and employment.
Mira Murati says it's important to figure out how to release the tool in a safe and responsible way, and help people integrate it into their workflows. AI tools will change the entire industry, and there's no point in resisting them. “I think it's important to embrace it and see how well it goes,” she says.
ChatGPT has huge potential to “expand opportunity for everyone,” Murati says. Generative AI isn't just a way for students to cheat on deadlines. Instead, it could be a tool to help plan lessons and help students learn in new ways.
"With ChatGPT, you can have this limitless interaction and it teaches you complex knowledge in a way that is contextual to you. It's like a personal tutor," she said.
Asked about OpenAI's move from a purely nonprofit to a "limited profit" company that raises capital to train more advanced AI systems, Mira Murati said it was no easy task.
“To make our models better and safer, you need to deploy them at scale, which costs a lot of money,” she said. “It requires you to have a business plan, because nonprofit funders aren't going to put up billions of dollars like investors.”
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