Murati, who has a background in aerospace and worked at Tesla and Leap Motion before joining OpenAI, emphasized the importance of synthetic data production and investment in computing infrastructure for AI development. She also highlighted the dual nature of AI technology, stating it's neither intrinsically good nor bad, and stressed the need for society to steer AI models towards beneficial outcomes in preparation for the advent of AGI.
Key takeaways:
- Former OpenAI executive Mira Murati believes that AI systems will eventually perform cognitive tasks as well as humans, a milestone known as artificial general intelligence (AGI), and that this is achievable despite current challenges in developing more powerful generative AI models.
- Murati, who resigned as OpenAI’s CTO in September, is founding her own AI startup to develop proprietary models, which could raise over $100 million in venture capital funding.
- She emphasized the importance of work on producing synthetic data to train models and the growing investment in computing infrastructure to power them as key areas in enabling AGI.
- Murati stressed that AI technology is not intrinsically good or bad, and it's up to society to steer the models toward good to be well prepared for the advent of AGI.