Sam Altman, CEO of Open AI, the company behind ChatGPT, has opened up on future plans for the company and denied rumours about GPT-4, the company’s unreleased language model and successor to GPT-3.

In an interview with StrictlyVC, Altman said that the release date for GPT-4 is uncertain and will only happen when they are confident they can do it “safely and responsibly”.

“People are begging to be disappointed and they will be,” said Altman, while calling a viral chart that purportedly compared the parameters in GPT-3 (175 billion) to GPT-4 (100 trillion), “complete bullshit”.

“The GPT-4 rumour mill is a ridiculous thing. I don’t know where it all comes from,” he pointed out.

Altman explained that people are expecting GPT-4 as a successor to function as artificial general intelligence (AGI), which is an AI with human-equivalent capabilities across many domains.

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