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☆ Meta’s A.I. Assistant Is Fun to Use, but It Can’t Be Trusted
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-24 | by ( Brian X. Chen | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

In the last few days, you may have noticed something new inside Meta’s apps, including Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp: an artificially intelligent chatbot. This is Meta’s response to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, the chatbot that upended the tech industry in 2022, and similar bots including Google’s Gemini and Microsoft’s Bing AI. The Meta bot’s image generator also competes with A.I. Unlike other chatbots and image generators, Meta’s A.I. assistant is a free tool baked into apps that billions of people use every day, making it the most aggressive push yet from a big tech company to bring this flavor of artificial intelligence — known as generative A.I.

Persons: ”, OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Bing, A.I, — Organizations: corgi, Meta Locations: New York, San Francisco

☆ Microsoft Makes a New Push Into Smaller A.I. Systems
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-23 | by ( Karen Weise | Cade Metz | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

systems, the tech industry’s mantra has been bigger is better, no matter the price tag. Now tech companies are starting to embrace smaller A.I. On Tuesday, Microsoft introduced three smaller A.I. The smallest Phi-3 model can fit on a smartphone, so it can be used even if it’s not connected to the internet. And it can run on the kinds of chips that power regular computers, rather than more expensive processors made by Nvidia.

Organizations: Microsoft, Phi, Nvidia

☆ Now Hiring: Sophisticated (but Part-Time) Chatbot Tutors
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-10 | by ( Yiwen Lu | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

After her second child was born, Chelsea Becker took an unpaid, yearlong leave from her full-time job as a flight attendant. After watching a video on TikTok, she found a side hustle: training artificial intelligence models for a website called Data Annotation Tech. For a few hours every day, Ms. Becker, 33, who lives in Schwenksville, Pa., would sit at her laptop and interact with an A.I.-powered chatbot. technology has put a more sophisticated spin on a kind of gig work that doesn’t require leaving the house. The growth of large language models like the technology powering OpenAI’s ChatGPT has fueled the need for trainers like Ms. Becker, fluent English speakers who can produce quality writing.

Persons: Chelsea Becker, yearlong, Becker Locations: Schwenksville, Pa

☆ Opinion: Google’s AI blunder over images reveals a much bigger problem
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-09 | by ( Rizwan Virk | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

When asked, Gemini politely refused in some instances to generate images of historically White people, such as the Vikings. In the image space, if you asked previous AI image generators for an image of a CEO or a doctor, they initially almost always showed images of White males. Google announced its Gemini AI chatbot was pausing the generation of people in images after concerns were raised that it was creating historically inaccurate images. What makes censorship and manipulation worse with AI is that today’s AI already has a well-known hallucination problem. It may be a portent of what’s to come with AI and Big Tech leading us into Orwellian territory.

Persons: Rizwan Virk, X, Dave, I’m, OpenAI’s, Gemini, Google’s, Pope, Sundar Pichai, we’ve, ”, didn’t, Michael M, George Orwell’s “, “ Organizations: Labs, MIT, Physics, Eastern, Arizona State University’s College of Global Futures, Center for Science, CNN, HAL, Google, Vikings, Fox News Digital, Gemini, Getty, Big Tech, Microsoft, Apple Locations: zenentrepreneur.com, White, German

☆ OpenAI says it’s working on AI that mimics human voices
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-01 | by ( Clare Duffy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

New York CNN —OpenAI has unveiled a new artificial intelligence tool that can mimic human voices with startling accuracy. Users can then provide a paragraph of text and the tool will read it in the AI-generated voice. There are several AI-generated voices services already available to the public but, as it did with the breakout chatbot ChatGPT, OpenAI has proven particularly adept at garnering widespread adoption of AI tools. Voice Engine can use a voice sample in one language to create a replica voice that can speak in multiple other languages. The preview of Voice Engine comes as users await the public release of Sora, the AI-generated video tool that OpenAI teased last month.

Persons: New York CNN — OpenAI, OpenAI, ” OpenAI, Sora, OpenAI’s Organizations: New, New York CNN Locations: New York

☆ Digital humans: the relatable face of artificial intelligence?
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-19 | by ( Evan John | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

The company is now developing digital humans that can “listen” to people’s questions and converse in real time. According to CEO and founder Rob Sims, digital humans can help bridge the gap between AI technology and people. “What we’ve found is when people start working with and conversing with a digital human, they very quickly suspend disbelief,” Sims tells CNN. “However, alongside, this fear of replacement is bubbling up more and more.”Harris, however, points to new opportunities within digital human design and development. “We’ll move into a stage where digital humans will start to become just another member of the team, with added benefits for that team, and obviously the customers they serve.”

Persons: Dex you’ll, ”, Dex, “ She’s, Denise Harris, Prada, Louis Vuitton, “, “ Arif ”, Rob Sims, ” Sims, ChatGPT, Anthropic, Claude, Jennifer Ding, Alan Turing, ” Harris Organizations: London CNN, Liverpool, CNN, Google, Qatar Airways ’, Microsoft, Alan, Alan Turing Institute Locations: New York, Paris, Milan, New Zealand

☆ EU approves landmark AI law, leapfrogging US to regulate worrying new technology
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-13 | by ( Brian Fung | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —European Union lawmakers gave final approval Wednesday to a landmark law governing artificial intelligence, leapfrogging the United States once again on the regulation of a critical and disruptive technology. The first-of-its-kind law is poised to reshape how businesses and organizations in Europe use AI for everything from health care decisions to policing. It imposes blanket bans on some “unacceptable” uses of the technology while enacting stiff guardrails for other applications deemed “high-risk.”For example, the EU AI Act outlaws social scoring systems powered by AI and any biometric-based tools used to guess a person’s race, political leanings or sexual orientation. Meanwhile, the law outlines a separate category of “high-risk” uses of AI, particularly for education, hiring and access to government services, and imposes a separate set of transparency and other obligations on them. Companies such as OpenAI that produce powerful, complex and widely used AI models will also be subject to new disclosure requirements under the law.

Persons: Chuck Schumer Organizations: CNN — European Union, EU Locations: United States, Europe

Here’s a look at the world's first comprehensive set of AI rules:HOW DOES THE AI ACT WORK? The law’s early drafts focused on AI systems carrying out narrowly limited tasks, like scanning resumes and job applications. The astonishing rise of general purpose AI models, exemplified by OpenAI’s ChatGPT, sent EU policymakers scrambling to keep up. Rules for general purpose AI systems like chatbots will start applying a year after the law takes effect. Meanwhile, Brussels will create an AI Office tasked with enforcing and supervising the law for general purpose AI systems.

Persons: Dragos Tudorache, Sam Altman, OpenAI’s ChatGPT, it’s, ”, Joe Biden, that’s, Xi Jinping, they've Organizations: —, Union, Lawmakers, Artificial Intelligence, Big, ACT, EU, Google, Companies, Global AI, Initiative, United Nations, Group Locations: Romanian, Europe, Brussels, U.S, China, Brazil, Japan

☆ Premarket: Investors are obsessed with this AI stock you may never have heard of
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-07 | by ( Krystal Hur | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

New York CNN —Nvidia isn’t the only stock capturing the attention of AI enthusiasts these days. Nvidia closed above a $2 trillion market cap on March 1, joining an elite cohort including Apple and Microsoft. Supermicro’s stock gained even more momentum in January, after the company reported second-quarter results that blew past expectations and raised its full-year revenue forecast. Supermicro’s stock was one of the most popular names bought by Charles Schwab clients in February, according to the firm’s latest trading activity index. New York Community Bank gets $1 billion ‘lifeline’Beleaguered regional lender New York Community Bank is receiving a more than $1 billion equity investment, reports my colleague Elisabeth Buchwald.

Persons: Charles Schwab, ChatGPT, “, ”, Supermicro, Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs, Elisabeth Buchwald, Steven Mnuchin’s, NYCB, ” David Chiaverini, Joseph Otting, Alessandro DiNello, DiNello, Read, Jeremy Hunt, Hanna Ziady, Hunt, ” Hunt, Rishi Sunak’s Organizations: CNN Business, Bell, New York CNN, Nvidia, Apple, Microsoft, Micro, Devices, Federal Reserve, Victoria Bills, Banrion Capital Management, Bank of America, Goldman, New York Community Bank, New, Community Bank, Liberty Strategic Capital, Citadel Global, Street Journal, Wedbush Securities, CNN, Bank of England, International Monetary Fund, Hunt’s Conservative Party, Labour Party Locations: New York, San Jose, United States, Hudson Bay, NYCB

☆ Top AI photo generators produce misleading election-related images, study finds
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-06 | by ( Clare Duffy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

CCDH researchers tested AI image generators Midjourney, Stability AI’s DreamStudio, OpenAI’s ChatGPT Plus and Microsoft Image Creator. They found that each tool could be prompted to create misleading images related to either US presidential candidates or voting security. The researchers also used common “jailbreaking” techniques to try to get around any potential restrictions on creating misleading images. Overall, researchers say they found that the AI image generators created election disinformation in 41% of their test runs. Overall, the platforms were more likely to produce misleading images related to voting and ballots than of candidates.

Persons: David Holz, Donald Trump, CCDH, Trump, Joe Biden, Midjourney, Biden, ” DreamStudio, ”, ’ Organizations: New, New York CNN, CNN, Microsoft, BBC, Trump, ” Locations: New York, United States, American

☆ Nvidia Says Growth Will Continue as A.I. Hits ‘Tipping Point’
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-21 | by ( Don Clark | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Nvidia, the kingpin of chips powering artificial intelligence, on Wednesday released quarterly financial results that reinforced how the company has become one of the biggest winners of the artificial intelligence boom, and it said demand for its products would fuel continued sales growth. Nvidia has become known as one of the “Magnificent Seven” tech stocks, which along with others like Amazon, Apple and Microsoft have helped power the stock market. Last week, the company briefly eclipsed the market values of Amazon and Alphabet before receding to the fifth-most-valuable tech company. Its stock market gains are largely a result of repeatedly exceeding analysts’ expectations for growth, a feat that is becoming more difficult as they keep raising their predictions. Revenue was well above the $20 billion the company predicted in November and above Wall Street estimates of $20.4 billion.

Organizations: Nvidia, Wednesday, Apple, Microsoft, Revenue

And the rise of generative AI chatbots is giving people new and different ways to look up information. A recent study by German researchers suggests the quality of results from Google, Bing and DuckDuckGo is indeed declining. But they have their own issues: Because the tech is so new, there are concerns about AI chatbots’ accuracy and reliability. If you want to try the AI way, here's a how-to:Photos You Should See View All 33 ImagesWHERE DO I FIND AI SEARCH TOOLS? A slew of startup AI search sites have emerged, but they aren't as easy to find.

Persons: — It's, Bing, Bard, There’s, Andi, Phind, “, Taylor Swift, Perplexity, Microsoft's Copilot, —, Aston Martin —, AskAI, they’re, HuggingChat, Gemini Organizations: Google, Komo, Gemini, Microsoft Locations: U.S, Britain, Switzerland, Europe, You.com, Canada, London, New York

NEW YORK (AP) — The maker of ChatGPT is now diving into AI-generated video. The model can also generate video from an existing still image. Getting an AI system to generate videos is newer and more challenging but relies on some of the same technology. Still, industry analysts stress the apparent quality and and impressive length of Sora videos shared so far. Although Sora's abilities have astounded observers since Thursday's launch, anxiety over ethical and societal implications of AI-generated video uses also remains.

Persons: Sora —, Sora isn't, Sam Altman, OpenAI, “, Sora isn’t, Fred Havemeyer, ” Havemeyer, “ You’re, — Forrester, Rowan Curran, Curran, “ We’re, Sora, ” OpenAI’s, Anna Makanju, Sora “, ________________ O'Brien Organizations: San Francisco, Meta, Associated Press, ” Tech, European Union, Munich Security Conference, OpenAI, Microsoft, The New York Times Locations: San, Macquarie, Providence , Rhode Island

☆ Wall Street just can't get enough of Nvidia
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-16 | by ( George Glover | Theron Mohamed | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Wall Street's excitement about Nvidia has reached a fever pitch as its valuation soars. NEW LOOK Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. AdvertisementExcitement on Wall Street about Nvidia is reaching a fever pitch after the chipmaker’s market value surpassed both Amazon and Google owner Alphabet this week. Nvidia is set to report its earnings for the final three months of 2023 on Wednesday. “If AI is the next industrial revolution, then absolutely we could see Nvidia’s valuation surge continuing,” Katherine Brooks of online broker XTB, told Business Insider.

Persons: Ray Dalio, Paul Tudor Jones, David Tepper, —, Ray Dalio’s, Kenneth Fisher’s Fisher, Jim Chanos, Steve Cohen’s Point72, It’s, Jensen, ” Katherine Brooks, XTB Organizations: Nvidia, Carolina Panthers, Service, Google, Traders, Reuters, Ray Dalio’s Bridgewater Associates, Kenneth Fisher’s Fisher Investments, Paul Tudor Jones ’ Investment Corp, Big Tech

☆ The gloves are off among Silicon Valley CEOs
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-15 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Silicon Valley CEOs are doing battle in public. AdvertisementThe Silicon Valley elite have been at each other's throats a little more than usual lately. AdvertisementThe latest example of this came this week when Mark Zuckerberg derided Apple's Vision Pro headset in an Instagram video. The Vision Pro is a direct competitor to Meta's Quest Pro but Zuckerberg does not appear concerned for now. “If you go back to the PC era, Microsoft’s open model was the winner, and in this next generation Meta is going to be the open model, and I really want to make sure that the open model wins out again.”Zuckerberg has good reason to be on the offense.

Persons: Mark Zuckerberg, —, Apple's, Zuckerberg, Justin Sullivan, it’s, ” Zuckerberg, OpenAI’s, Bill Gates, ” Elon Musk, Sam Altman, chatbot Grok, Elon Musk, Leon Neal, Satya Nadella, OpenAI, Y, Paul Graham, Tim Cook, Steve Jobs, ”, “ Organizations: Vision, Service, Tech, Meta's, Apple, Reality Labs, Microsoft, Google Locations: OpenAI, Zuck

☆ The White House wants to 'cryptographically verify' videos of Joe Biden so viewers don't mistake them for deep fakes
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-08 | by ( Kali Hays | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

The White House is increasingly aware that the American public needs a way to tell that statements from President Joe Biden and related information are real in the new age of easy-to-use generative artificial intelligence. People in the White House have been looking into AI and generative AI since Joe Biden became president in 2020, but in the last year, the use of generative AI exploded with the release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Yet, there is no end in sight for more sophisticated new generative AI tools that make it easy for people with little to no technical know-how to create images, videos, and calls that seem authentic while being entirely fake. AdvertisementBuchanan said the aim is to “essentially cryptographically verify” everything that comes from the White House, be it a statement or a video. While last year’s executive order on AI created an AI Safety Institute at the Department of Commerce, which is tasked with creating standards for watermarking content to show provenance, the effort to verify White House communications is separate.

Persons: Joe Biden, Ben Buchanan, Buchanan, it’s, ”, Biden, ” Buchanan, “ We're, Kali Hays Organizations: Big Tech, Meta, Google, Microsoft, Federal Communications Comission, Artificial Intelligence, White, Department of Commerce Locations: Biden’s, khays@insider.com

☆ Generative A.I.’s Biggest Impact Will Be in Banking and Tech, Report Says
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-01 | by ( Steve Lohr | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A new generation of artificial intelligence is poised to turn old assumptions about technology on their head. For years, people working in warehouses or fast food restaurants worried that automation could eliminate their jobs. But new research suggests that generative A.I. — the kind used in chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT — will have its biggest impact on white-collar workers with high-paying jobs in industries like banking and tech. “There’s no question the workers who will be impacted most are those with college degrees, and those are the people who always thought they were safe,” said Matt Sigelman, president of the Burning Glass Institute.

Persons: “, ”, Matt Sigelman Organizations: Burning Glass, Society for Human Resource Management, Glass Institute

☆ Bill Gates explains how AI will change our lives in 5 years
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-16 | by ( Jordan Valinsky | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

The rise of AI has elicited fear that the technology will eliminate millions of jobs around the world. The International Monetary Fund this week reported that about 40% of jobs around the world could be affected by the rise of AI. Gates doesn’t necessarily disagree with that notion, but he believes history shows with every new technology comes fear and then new opportunity. “I have more than enough money for my own consumption,” Gates said when Zakaria asked how philanthropic efforts are going. At a rate of $9 billion a year, Gates anticipates he’ll have given away all of his money in about 20 years.

Persons: New York CNN —, Bill Gates, Gates, ” Gates, CNN’s Fareed Zakaria, OpenAI’s, ”, Zakaria, hadn’t, “ I’m, I’ll, Melinda French Gates, he’s, Warren Buffett, CNN’s “ Fareed Zakaria Organizations: New, New York CNN, Monetary Fund, Microsoft, OpenAI, Gates, World Economic, CNN Locations: New York, Davos, Africa

☆ OpenAI Bans Use of AI Tools for Campaigning, Voter Suppression
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-15 | by ( Asa Fitch | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland on Monday. Photo: Hollie Adams/Bloomberg NewsOpenAI outlined limits on using its tools in politics during the run-up to elections in 2024, amid mounting concern that artificial-intelligence systems could mass-produce misinformation and sway voters in high-profile races. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Dall-E are some of the most powerful AI chatbot and image-generation applications available. The growth of such tools has raised worry that software made by OpenAI and its peers could be used to manipulate voters with false news stories and computer-generated images and video.

Persons: Sam Altman, Hollie Adams, OpenAI’s ChatGPT Organizations: Economic, Bloomberg, OpenAI Locations: Switzerland

☆ Media executives urge Congress to enact legislation to prevent AI models from training on ‘stolen goods’
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-10 | by ( Liam Reilly | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

Roger Lynch, Condé Nast’s chief executive, told senators that current AI models were built using “stolen goods,” with chatbots scraping and displaying news articles from publishers without their permission or compensation. News organizations, Lynch said, seldom have a say in whether their content is used to train AI or is output by the models. To avoid the pilfering of news publishers’ content and, thereby, their coffers, Lynch proposed AI companies use licensed content and compensate publishers for content being used for training and output. Coffey also noted AI models have introduced inaccuracies and produced so-called hallucinations after scraping content from less-than-reputable sources — which runs the risk of misinforming the public or ruining a publication’s reputation. “The risk of low-quality [generative] AI content dominating the internet is amplified by the drastic economic decline of news publications over the past two decades,” Coffey said.

Persons: ChatGPT, Roger Lynch, Condé, Lynch, ”, they’ve, Sarah Silverman, Margaret Atwood, Dan Brown, Michael Chabon, Jonathan Franzen, George R, Martin, ” Lynch, Danielle Coffey, Coffey, ” Coffey, ” Curtis LeGeyt, ” LeGeyt Organizations: CNN, The New York Times, News Media Alliance, National Association of Broadcasters

☆ AI defined 2023. Bullets and ballots will shape 2024
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-04 | by ( Simon Robinson | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

In that spirit, I asked OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Bard – two of the most popular generative AI tools – to do the job for me. It missed the war between Hamas and Israel. In 2024, expect more progress and more news on regulators scrambling to keep up. Next year will also be defined by bullets and ballots. Like many newsrooms, Reuters is experimenting with how AI can help us package, produce and deliver our journalism.

Persons: OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Bard –, ChatGPT, “, ”, Bard, –, Donald Trump, Narendra Modi, machismo, Claudia Sheinbaum, Vladimir Putin, Joseph Stalin’s, What’s, Taylor, Edward Tobin Organizations: United Nations, Gaza Health Ministry, Brussels –, Ukraine –, Washington, U.S, Mexico City, Reuters, Thomson Locations: Russia, Ukraine, Israel, Gaza, Ukrainian, Ukraine’s, Washington, Brussels, Moscow, Kyiv, Beijing, Taiwan, U.S, India, Mexico, United States

☆ Amazon's AWS appeals to corporate customers with new chatbot, AI safety measures
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-28 | by ( Greg Bensinger | Thomson Reuters | Greg Bensinger Joined Reuters As A Technology Correspondent In Focusing On The World'S Largest Technology Companies. He Was Previously A Member Of The New York Times Editorial Board | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

The new software arrives roughly a year after OpenAI’s ChatGPT burst onto the scene, setting off a frenzy of investment in generative AI startups. AWS CEO Adam Selipsky, at Amazon’s annual cloud computing conference in Las Vegas, announced a new safeguard against objectionable content on generative AI applications, called Guardrails for Bedrock. Because generative AI is trained on publicly available content, offensive words or other objectionable content can slip through into results from users’ prompts. Selipsky said the new service was important for customers to put limits they see fit on the generative AI they use. Also at the conference, Amazon announced it would indemnify its customers against lawsuits based on the misuse of copyrighted materials.

Persons: Vincent West, Slack, OpenAI’s, Adam Selipsky, Selipsky, ”, Greg Bensinger, Marguerita Choy Organizations: REUTERS, Facebook, Amazon, Getty, Thomson Locations: Trapagaran, Spain, Las Vegas, Seattle

☆ OpenAI’s Cast of Characters
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-22 | by ( Jennifer Korn | Paul Glader | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

Before OpenAI, Altman was president of Y Combinator, mentoring a host of founders and expanding his network in Silicon Valley. “We are encouraged by the changes to the OpenAI board,” he wrote on X on Wednesday. Mira MuratiNamed by the OpenAI board as Altman’s interim successor on Friday, Murati was replaced by Shear before the weekend was done. In September, she joined the board of directors of Shield AI, a defense technology company building AI pilot technology for aircraft. Will HurdAfter joining the OpenAI board in 2021, Hurd was the third director to exit in 2023.

Persons: OpenAI, Sam Altman, Altman, Elon, Satya Nadella, OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Kiko, Emmett Shear, Y, Nadella, ”, Mira Murati, Murati, Shear, “ Mira, ” Nadella, Ilya Sutskever, Brockman, Sutskever, “, we’ve, Adam D’Angelo D’Angelo, Mark Zuckerberg, D’Angelo, Forbes, ” Bret Taylor, Bret Taylor, Elon Musk, Taylor, Justin Kan, Tasha McCauley McCauley, Joseph Gordon, Levitt, McCauley, Greg Brockman Greg Brockman, Peter Thiel, Musk, Helen Toner Toner, AI’s, Toner, Joshua Kushner Kushner, Kushner, Jared Kushner, Karlie Kloss, Charles Kushner, Donald Trump, Larry Summers Summers, Obama, Clinton, Summers, Shivon Zilis, Zilis, Walter Isaacson, Will Hurd, Hurd, Nikki Haley, Reid Hoffman, Hoffman, OpenAI . Hoffman, He’s Organizations: CNN, Stanford University, Microsoft, OpenAI, Colby College, Dartmouth University, Tesla, Time, Phillips Exeter Academy, California Institute of Technology, Facebook, Twitter, Google, Yale University, Justin.tv, GeoSim Systems, Rand Corporation, Centre, Bard College, University of Southern, Harvard University, MIT, Elon, Georgetown’s Center for Security, Emerging Technology, Open, Oscar Health, Memphis Grizzlies, Harvard College, Harvard Business School, Republican, CIA, Allen & Company, Texas, M University, Reid Hoffman LinkedIn, PayPal, LinkedIn, Greylock Partners, SpaceX, Boring Company Locations: Silicon Valley, St, Louis , Missouri, OpenAI, Seattle , Washington, Israel, University of Southern California, North Dakota, Beijing, Georgetown, Canada, United States, Texas, Oxford

☆ OpenAI’s wild week explained: How the Sam Altman story unfolded
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-22 | by ( Diksha Madhok | Clare Duffy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

ET, OpenAI publicly announced that it had fired Altman over concerns that he was not always truthful with the board. Sam Altman, left, appears onstage with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella at OpenAI's first developer conference, on Nov. 6, 2023, in San Francisco. OpenAI’s board was also reportedly having second thoughts and considering asking the ousted CEO to return. Ultimately, Microsoft and Altman appear to be the big winners from the dust-up: Altman will continue leading the firm he helped to found. “We are encouraged by the changes to the OpenAI board,” Nadella said on X.

Persons: Elon, Sam Altman —, —, OpenAI, ChatGPT, Altman, Ilya Sutskever, Greg Brockman, Mira Murati, Altman’s, “, what’s, ” Brockman, Kara Swisher, Sam Altman, Satya Nadella, Barbara Ortutay, Nadella, Brockman, Emmett Shear, Murati, ” Nadella, ”, Justin Sullivan, Bret Taylor, Larry Summers, Adam D’Angelo, Shear, … Organizations: New Delhi CNN, Valley Bank, Google, Microsoft, OpenAI's, Sunday, OpenAI, CNBC, Twitter Locations: New York, New Delhi, OpenAI, San Francisco, San Francisco , California

☆ Sam Altman's firing at OpenAI reflects schism over future of AI development
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-20 | by ( Greg Bensinger | Thomson Reuters | Greg Bensinger Joined Reuters As A Technology Correspondent In Focusing On The World'S Largest Technology Companies. He Was Previously A Member Of The New York Times Editorial Board | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

To many, he was considered the human face of generative AI. Those worries over generative AI came to a head with the surprise ousting of Altman, who was also OpenAI's cofounder. “Does the future then belong to the machines?”Sutskever reportedly felt Altman was pushing OpenAI’s software too quickly into users’ hands, potentially compromising safety. The fate of OpenAI is viewed by many technologists as critical to the development of AI. He advocated on social media in September for a "slowing down" of AI development.

Persons: Sam Altman, Altman, Ilya Sutskever, –, ”, Connor Leahy, Sutskever, OpenAI, Biden, Emmett Shear, Greg Bensinger, Kenneth Li, Matthew Lewis Organizations: FRANCISCO, Microsoft, European Union, Thomson Locations: OpenAI, San Francisco

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