Greater than 1,000 general audiences gathered on the event attended by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, showing off its popularity. It is understood that 1000’s of individuals have booked to take part in the event in two days.

Open AI and Softbank Ventures held ‘Fireside Chat with Open AI’ in Yeouido, Seoul on the ninth.

The event was attended by greater than 1,000 people within the industry, including domestic artificial intelligence (AI) developers and researchers, in addition to entrepreneurs, founders, and university students. Softbank Ventures announced that it had closed the appliance early as several times the variety of applications it had initially expected, inside two days after it began accepting applications for the event.

Actually, a protracted line of spectators formed across the venue a few hours before the beginning, and the spectators enthusiastically cheered for the position of Open AI officials similar to Altman.

On the identical day, Softbank Ventures held a roundtable with OpenAI and 30 domestic AI developers to debate domestic use cases of ChatGPT and plans for technical cooperation.

Specifically, CEO Sam Altman and OpenAI development managers shared opinions with developers in regards to the usability and improvement tasks of the ChatGPT API and plug-ins, which were unveiled in March.

The event was attended by top AI leaders in Korea, including developers from major domestic AI startups similar to Upstage, Masspresso, Scatterlab, and Lunasoft, in addition to large language model (LLM) firms similar to Naver and Kakao.

On the ‘Fireside Chet with Open AI’ event that followed, Softbank Ventures CEO Lee Joon-pyo and AI natural language processing professor Jo Kyung-hyeon from Recent York University within the US had a conversation with Altman CEO and Greg Brockman co-founder.

CEO Lee Jun-pyo asked questions on the AI ​​ecosystem pursued by OpenAI and the opportunity of collaboration and advice on the Korean AI industry. Professor Cho Kyung-hyun gave a chat on the subject of AI service regulation and social responsibility, which have turn into a hot topic on the recent U.S. Senate Judiciary and Judiciary Subcommittee hearing. The talk was followed by an issue and answer session from the overall audience.

Lee Joon-pyo, CEO of Softbank Ventures, who hosted the event, said, “I hope this event can be a meaningful time for AI startups, industry officials, and everybody living within the AI ​​era.”

Reporter Juyoung Lee juyoung09@aitimes.com