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Some tech experts in Nigeria think Nigeria should also join in the discussion to pause on further development of Open artificial intelligence, OpenAI, across the world, for six months, following profound risks it poses to the collective wellbeing of humans.
This is as big names in information technology, IT, like Founder of Tesla and owner of Twitter, Elon Musk; co-founder of Apple, Steve Wozniak and many others have all publicly expressed support for the call.
Since its release last year, OpenAI’s ChatGPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) program has prompted rivals to accelerate developing similar large language models, and companies to integrate generative artificial intelligence (AI) models into their products.
Earlier this month, the Microsoft-backed company unveiled the fourth iteration of ChatGPT, which has made users with its vast range of applications, from engaging users in human-like conversation to composing songs and summarizing lengthy documents.
Responding to this development and how it relates to developing countries like Nigeria, a tech expert, Mr Andy Obuoforibo said it is an important discussion to have in the country.
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