AI is advancing at a rapid pace as more and more companies throw their hats inside the proverbial ring.
While competition often drives innovation, it shouldn’t come with certain trade-offs.
Case in point, public trust.
OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, recently saw the leader of its “superalignment” team Ilya Sutskever move to Anthropic. According to him, OpenAI’s leadership had changed, prioritizing “shiny products” regardless of public safety.
Just like that, OpenAI was no longer seen as an AI safety advocate overnight.
But, OpenAI isn’t alone. Google’s AI Overviews, which debuted in May, has received numerous complaints for, among other things, telling users to put glue on their pizza or to eat rocks.
It’s become clear that as competition ramps up, companies are starting to feel the need to innovate at a much more rapid pace. The result is that they’re rolling out features they haven’t fully figured out yet. Instead of launching complete products, they’re beta testing out in the public and audiences are catching on.
Most were already sceptical about the use of AI technology. Although certain advancements in the past year have made a positive impact, the current situation is several steps back for the industry.
As companies struggle to roll out complete and fully functional products, the public will continue to wait and see when the next update will inevitably fail until proven otherwise.