Is OpenAI's interim CEO Mira Murati an Indian? Here is what we know about her

Mira Murati was brieflyappointed as the interim Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of OpenAI soon after its co-founder Sam Altman was ousted from the company behind Artificial Intelligence-powered chatbot ChatGPT.

Murati was working as the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at OpenAI but after Sam Altman was fired from his position as CEO on November 18, shewas appointed as the interim CEO.

Murati was born in San Francisco in 1988, and was raised in America.

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Previously, she held the position of senior product manager at Tesla, after having received her Bachelor of Engineering degree from The Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth.

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Mira also served as OpenAI's SVP of Research, Product, and Partnerships.

Earlier, in an interview with Time magazine, she expressed her concerns over the misuse of Artificial Intelligence."AI can be misused, or it can be used by bad actors. So, then there are questions about how you govern the use of this technology globally. How do you govern the use of AI in a way that’s aligned with human values?," Mira Murati told the magazine.

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She also stressed that the company (OpenAI) will need help from different sources, including governments, regulators, and everyone else.

“But we're a small group of people and we need a tonne more inputs in this system and a lot more input that goes beyond the technologies—definitely regulators and governments and everyone else," Murati noted.

Is Mira Murati Indian?

Contrary to several reports in sections of media, Mira Murati is not Indian. She was born in Albania to Albanian parents, andeducated in Canada.

Murati is a mechanical engineer by training who built a hybrid race car as an undergraduate student at Dartmouth College. Before joiningOpenAI in 2018, she hadworked at Tesla, where she played a key role in the development of the Model X car, and Leap Motion, a startup that developed a computing system to track hand and finger motions.

Murati said that her work at Tesla exposed her to AI and inspired her to look for a job in that field. OpenAI hired her as its vice president of applied AI and partnerships.

What is ChatGPT?

The AI chatbot ChatGPT was created by San Francisco-based OpenAI, a startup that does AI research. The applicationwas made available in November 2022. It is able to converse about anything from history to philosophy, produce lyrics, and provide changes to computer programme code.

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It is trained on a sizable collection of articles, websites, and social media postings in addition to real-time talks, mostly in English, with human contractors employed by OpenAI. It picks up on the writing's syntax and organisation and learns to reflect commonly used expressions. The chatbot's correctness isn't always reliable because its sources aren't fact-checked and it depends on user input to get better.

(With inputs from agencies)