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☆ Google contractors who helped train the Bard AI chatbot vote to unionize
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-07 | by ( Caroline Haskins | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

AdvertisementAdvertisementGoogle contractors with Accenture, who write Google Help articles and review AI-generated content from the Bard chatbot, voted on Monday to unionize with the Alphabet Workers Union, which represents Google employees and contractors. The vote comes after a coalition of 118 Accenture workers announced their union in June. Google is currently appealing the NLRB's September ruling that it is joint employer of Accenture contractors. Accenture contractors worked on BardGoogle rushed its release of Bard in an effort to make a product to compete with OpenAI's ChatGPT. Other Google contractors have unionizedMonday's vote marks the second time this year that contractors for Google successfully voted to unionize with the NLRB.

Persons: Cognizant, —, Bard chatbot, Monday's, Bard, Organizers, Jen Hill, Courtenay Mencini, Bard Google, OpenAI's, Hill, Laura Greene, Greene, OpenAI Organizations: Accenture, Service, Alphabet Workers Union, Google, National Labor Relations, Alphabet Workers, Bloomberg, Workers, . Workers, Meta Locations: Manila

☆ Exclusive: Meta to bar political advertisers from using generative AI ads tools
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-06 | by ( Katie Paul | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

Meta AI logo is seen in this illustration taken September 28, 2023. Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google, the biggest digital advertising company, announced the launch of similar image-customizing generative AI ads tools last week. Snapchat owner Snap (SNAP.N) and TikTok both bar political ads, while X, previously known as Twitter, has not rolled out any generative AI advertising tools. Meta's top policy executive, Nick Clegg, said last month that the use of generative AI in political advertising was "clearly an area where we need to update our rules." Earlier, Clegg told Reuters that Meta was blocking its user-facing Meta AI virtual assistant from creating photo-realistic images of public figures.

Persons: Dado Ruvic, Meta, Nick Clegg, Clegg, Joe Biden, Katie Paul, Kenneth Li, Matthew Lewis Organizations: REUTERS, Meta, Google, Reuters, San, Thomson Locations: United Kingdom, San Francisco

OpenAI is calling the customized AI apps "GPTs", which the company said are early versions of AI assistants that perform real-world tasks, such as booking flights, on behalf of a user. In addition to GPTs, OpenAI also released a slew of developer-focused updates, including significant cost slashing, an announcement met with loud cheers from the audience. For its 2 million developers, OpenAI announced a new GPT-4 Turbo model, which compared to its predecessor GPT-4 is several orders of magnitude cheaper and processes much more data. It also launched a beta program for developers to fine-tune GPT-4 models. To address the concerns of big enterprises, OpenAI launched its Custom Models program, offering to create custom GPT-4 models at an "expensive" price.

Persons: OpenAI, Sam Altman, Altman, It's, you'll, Flo Crivello, Crivello, Lindy, Satya Nadella, Krystal Hu, Anna Tong, Paul Simao, Stephen Coates Organizations: FRANCISCO, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, Thomson Locations: San Francisco, OpenAI

☆ Black workers could be disproportionately harmed by AI in the workplace, a study says. They are feeling the heat — and trying to fix it.
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-06 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Black workers are more afraid of being replaced by AI than white workers, a new survey found. That may be because Black workers have a fraught history with the technology, experts say. Black workers are feeling the pressure, new research suggests. Even before the rise of generative AI, Black workers in low-wage jobs faced a greater risk of being replaced by automation technologies, Goligoski said. "It is insufficient to relegate the responsibility of protecting Black workers from the harms of AI to businesses alone," Hayes said.

Persons: —, Emily Goligoski, Goligoski, Myaisha Hayes, Richard Baldwin, Hayes, " Hayes Organizations: Service, McKinsey, Black, Amazon, Companies

☆ Microsoft-backed OpenAI announces GPT-4 Turbo, its most powerful AI yet
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-06 | by ( Hayden Field | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

ChatGPT, which broke records as the fastest-growing consumer app in history months after its launch, now has about 100 million weekly active users, OpenAI said Monday. And when it comes to GPT-5, Altman told reporters, "We want to do it, but we don't have a timeline." GPT-4 Turbo can. While earlier versions limited you to about 3,000 words, the GPT-4 Turbo accepts inputs of up to 300 pages in length. OpenAI said GPT-4 Turbo is available in preview for developers now and will be released to all in the coming weeks.

Persons: Sam Altman, Altman, Justin Sullivan, OpenAI, It's, Mira Murati, Satya Nadella, Nadella, Andreessen Horowitz, GPT, it's, Tony Stark's J.A.R.V.I.S, Pam, Anthropic's Claude, chatbot Organizations: Google, Fortune, Microsoft, Sequoia Capital, Bowl, Marvel, Smart Locations: San Francisco , California, OpenAI

☆ Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has nothing but praise for Sam Altman and OpenAI
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-06 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella discussed the companies' partnership at OpenAI's DevDay. AdvertisementAdvertisementMicrosoft CEO Satya Nadella took the stage at OpenAI's first-ever developer conference and had nothing but praise for the company and its CEO Sam Altman. During OpenAI's DevDay, Altman invited Nadella on stage to discuss OpenAI's ongoing partnership with Microsoft. The Microsoft CEO showered Altman and his work with approval. Through the partnership, Microsoft has been able to build its own AI products using OpenAI's language models.

Persons: Sam Altman, Satya Nadella, Nadella, OpenAI, —, OpenAI's DevDay, Altman, OpenAI didn't Organizations: Microsoft, OpenAI's, Service, OpenAI

ChatGPT, launched in November 2022, now has 100 million weekly active users, Altman said. Even before event attendees were allowed to check in at 8:30 a.m. PST, hundreds had lined up around the block in the Mid-Market neighborhood in downtown San Francisco. For its 2 million developers, OpenAI announced a new GPT-4 Turbo model and slashed the cost by over 50%. To address data and price concerns of big enterprises, OpenAI launched its Custom Models program, offering a dedicated group of researchers to train custom GPT-4 for them. Reporting by Krystal Hu and Anna Tong in San Francisco Editing by Richard Chang and Matthew LewisOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Sam Altman, Altman, ChatGPT, you'll, Satya Nadella, OpenAI, Krystal Hu, Anna Tong, Richard Chang, Matthew Lewis Organizations: FRANCISCO, San, Microsoft, Anthropic, Google, Thomson Locations: San Francisco, OpenAI

It also touted a new version of its AI model called GPT-4 with vision, or GPT-4V, that enables the chatbot to analyze images. ChatGPT has more than 100 million weekly active users and 2 million developers, spread “entirely by word of mouth," Altman said. The conference comes a week after President Joe Biden signed an executive order that will set some of the first U.S. guardrails on AI technology. The order built on voluntary commitments set by the White House that leading AI developers made earlier this year. OpenAI also faces competition from developers of so-called open source models that publicly release their code and other aspects of the system for free.

Persons: ChatGPT, you’ll, ”, Sam Altman, Altman, Alyssa Hwang, Hwang, ” Hwang, OpenAI, DevDay, Joe Biden, Satya Nadella, Nadella, ” Altman, Microsoft's Bing, Bard, Claude, Tesla, Elon Musk, Musk, “ Elon's, Arun Chandrasekaran, Chandrasekaran, Goldman Sachs, — — O'Brien, — Organizations: FRANCISCO, Apple, Honda, University of Pennsylvania, Microsoft, Google, White, Twitter, ”, Associated Press Locations: OpenAI's, San Francisco, U.S, Providence , Rhode Island

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella made a surprise appearance at OpenAI's developer conference on Monday with a message: Come build with us. 1 is to build the best system, so that you can build the best models and then make that all available to developers," Nadella told OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, on stage at DevDay in San Francisco. Azure has become Microsoft's key growth engine in recent years and has helped revive the company's brand among developers. Microsoft boasts an exclusive license on OpenAI's GPT-4 large language model that can generate human-like prose in response to a few words of text. Developers who are building on top of OpenAI can look to the Azure Marketplace to "get to market rapidly," Nadella said.

Persons: Satya Nadella, Nadella, Sam Altman, OpenAI, ChatGPT, It's, Altman Organizations: Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, Google, OpenAI's, Street, Windows Locations: DevDay, San Francisco

☆ No one's been this pumped for a keynote since Steve Jobs launched the iPhone
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-06 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The buzz among developers is reminiscent of the iPhone and App Store launches. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementAdvertisementThe AI developer community is so hyped for an upcoming keynote that it's giving Steve Jobs-launches-the-iPhone energy all over again. ChatGPT developer OpenAI is kicking off its first developer conference in San Francisco on Monday, almost a year after releasing the chatbot publicly for free. Ultimately, the App Store changed software development and became a major revenue spinner for Apple.

Persons: —, Steve Jobs, OpenAI, Sam Altman, NCENOGzcq5, 4EjZo7huFQ, Brian Roemmele, Charley Ma, Yasser Elsaid, Altman Organizations: Service, Apple Locations: San Francisco, OpenAI, ChatGPT

☆ ChatGPT is getting an upgrade that will make it more up to date
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-06 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

ChatGPT users will soon have access to more up-to-date information. The announcement was made by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman at its first developer day. AdvertisementAdvertisementThe update will only be available to paying users of GPT-4 Turbo model — OpenAI's latest, most advanced large language model to date. The expansion of ChatGPT's knowledge base is just one of many new features Altman announced around OpenAI's GPT-4 Turbo model. A preview of GPT-4 Turbo is available for paying developers, and the final model will be available in the coming weeks.

Persons: Sam Altman, —, ChatGPT, Sam Bankman, Altman, Bing, OpenAI's Organizations: Service

☆ Elon Musk's new AI chatbot sure sounds like a foul-mouthed Twitter troll
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-06 | by ( Tom Carter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Elon Musk's artificial intelligence startup xAI released its first model, named Grok, on Saturday. AdvertisementAdvertisementElon Musk's new AI chatbot launched on Saturday — and it appears to have the personality of a foul-mouthed Twitter troll. Musk's startup xAI released its first AI model , Grok, over the weekend to a select group of users. AdvertisementAdvertisementGrok's trolling marks a departure from other AI models, which mostly adopt a carefully neutral tone and have tight controls around explicit content. He said the AI chatbot would be made available to all X Premium users once it is out of its early Beta.

Persons: XAI, —, Elon, chatbot, Grok, Christopher Stanley, Stanley, Claude, Toby Pohlen, Microsoft's Tay, Musk Organizations: Elon, Service, X Locations: OpenAI

☆ Is Sam Altman bad at typing? A short investigation.
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-06 | by ( Katie Notopoulos | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

In the keynote of OpenAI's DevDay event, CEO Sam Altman demoed ChatGPT's new custom GPT feature. Is it possible Sam Altman needs Mavis Beacon? AdvertisementAdvertisementOpenAI held its DevDay conference on Monday, with CEO Sam Altman giving a highly-anticipated keynote address in the wake of its huge success with ChatGPT. As Altman typed into the ChatGPT box, he made … typos. I recognize my own kind, and I smell it all over Sam Altman: He's a bad typist.

Persons: OpenAI's, Sam Altman demoed, Sam Altman, Mavis Beacon, —, ChatGPT, Altman, Satya Nadella, He's Organizations: Service, Microsoft

☆ AI bot performed insider trading and lied about its actions, study shows
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-04 | by ( Polly Thompson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

An AI bot proved it was capable of insider trading and lying about its actions, researchers found. The AI model deceived users "without being instructed to do so," Apollo Research said. AdvertisementAdvertisementAn AI bot on OpenAI's GPT-4 large language model showed it was capable of making illegal financial trades and lying about its actions. But when prompted that the company was counting on Alpha to avoid the effects of a financial downturn, the bot concluded that "the risk associated with not acting seems to outweigh the insider trading risk." Brijesh Goel, a former investment banker at Goldman Sachs, was sentenced on Wednesday to 36 months in prison and fined $75,000 for insider trading.

Persons: —, Apollo, Marius Hobbhahn, Hobbhahn, Brijesh Goel, Goldman Sachs Organizations: Safety, Research, Service, Apollo Research, Alpha, BBC

☆ Don't let Big Tech write the AI rules, warns AI godfather
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-04 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

An AI godfather says we should all be worried about the concentration of power in the AI sector. Bengio said the control of powerful AI systems was a central question for democracy. NEW LOOK Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. AdvertisementAdvertisementThe concentration of power in the AI arena is one of the main risks facing the industry, an AI godfather says. Regulation, at least in its current form, will not be the boost for big tech companies that some industry experts have suggested it could be, he added.

Persons: Yoshua Bengio, Bengio, —, Yoshua, I've, Yann LeCun, OpenAI's Sam Altman, LeCun, Anthropic's Dario Amodei, Benigo Organizations: Service Locations: Canadian, ChatGPT

☆ How ChatGPT Enterprise has helped Canva save hours of time and build better tools
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-04 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

The graphic design platform used the software to build its own AI tools, Canva's head of AI told Insider. Here's what ChatGPT Enterprise has automated — and what it still has to work on. AdvertisementAdvertisementOpenAI, one of the most influential artificial intelligence firms, rolled out ChatGPT Enterprise, a version of ChatGPT designed for businesses, at the end of August. AdvertisementAdvertisementEngineers used ChatGPT Enterprise to review Canva's blocklist and flag artist names that were similar to dictionary words for human review. While the company expects to keep using ChatGPT Enterprise moving forward, it doesn't plan on shrinking Canva's workforce.

Persons: Canva, —, ChatGPT, Danny Wu, Estée Lauder, Wu, Mark Muro, Thomas Hexton, Andy Warhol, OpenAI's chatbot, They're, OpenAI Organizations: Enterprise, ChatGPT Enterprise, Service, Software, Brookings Institute, Engineers Locations: Sydney

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak attends an in-conversation event with Tesla and SpaceX's CEO Elon Musk in London, Britain, Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023. Risks around rapidly-developing AI have been an increasingly high priority for policymakers since Microsoft-backed Open AI (MSFT.O) released ChatGPT to the public last year. "It was fascinating that just as we announced our AI safety institute, the Americans announced theirs," said attendee Nigel Toon, CEO of British AI firm Graphcore. China’s vice minister of science and technology said the country was willing to work with all sides on AI governance. Yoshua Bengio, an AI pioneer appointed to lead a "state of the science" report commissioned as part of the Bletchley Declaration, told Reuters the risks of open-source AI were a high priority.

Persons: Rishi Sunak, Tesla, Elon Musk, Kirsty Wigglesworth, Sam Altman, Kamala Harris, Ursula von der Leyen, China –, Sunak, Finance Bruno Le Maire, Vera Jourova, Jourova, Harris, Nigel Toon, Wu Zhaohui, Musk, you’ve, Martin Coulter, Paul Sandle, Matt Scuffham, Louise Heavens Organizations: British, Elon, U.S, European Commission, Microsoft, of, Finance, EU, Reuters, Thomson Locations: London, Britain, China, Bletchley, U.S, South Korea, France, United States

☆ OpenAI just taught little-guy developers an ugly lesson
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-03 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | Riddhi Kanetkar | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

One founder building ChatGPT add-ons says he's "bracing" for other changes from OpenAI. Little-guy developers building complementary services to OpenAI's ChatGPT chatbot have just found this out the hard way. As several techies noticed, that's pretty much killed off a bunch of startups that build "ChatGPT wrapper" apps that did precisely that. Other wrapper apps can create ad copy, sales materials, and social media posts. As one anonymous venture capitalist, who has backed a ChatGPT wrapper startup put it to Insider: "Just wait until ChatGPT has an outage and see which emperors have no clothes."

Persons: —, Sam Altman, Kevin Dietsch, Dominik Lohle, Joel Liu, Liu, Claude, Damon Chen, PDF.ai, h9KnROaWtI — Damon Chen, Nvidia's, Jin Fan, ChatGPT Organizations: Service, Google, Boston, Microsoft

[1/3] A keyboard is placed in front of a displayed OpenAI logo in this illustration taken February 21, 2023. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsNov 3 - ChatGPT maker OpenAI is expected to announce product enhancements that will make its AI models cheaper, with more functionality, in its first-ever developer conference on Monday. Generative AI can, using past data, create brand new content like fully formed text, images and software code. OpenAI is expected to announce updates focused on slashing costs for its developers, as well as new vision capabilities, Reuters previously reported. Cost-cutting addresses a major concern for partners whose spending on OpenAI's powerful models could pile up quickly as they try to build sustainable businesses by developing and selling AI software.

Persons: Dado Ruvic, OpenAI, Sam Altman, Altman, Anna Tong, Krystal Hu, Richard Chang Organizations: REUTERS, Microsoft, Reuters, Thomson Locations: San Francisco, City Hall, Francisco's, Silicon

☆ 'Bracing for the impact': Founders who built on ChatGPT find out the hard way Big Tech can torpedo their work
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-03 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | Riddhi Kanetkar | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

☆ Elon Musk says xAI is ready to release its first AI model to a 'select group'
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-03 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Elon Musk says xAI is about to release its first AI model. He said the model would be available to a "select group" on Saturday. AdvertisementAdvertisementElon Musk's xAI is gearing up to release its first AI model. In a post on X, formerly Twitter, Musk announced his company was set to release the model to a "select group" on Saturday. It's unclear who is part of the "select group" to gain access to the model.

Persons: Elon Musk, xAI, —, Elon, Musk, He's, GPT, Manuel Kroiss, Igor Babuschkin Organizations: Service, Twitter

☆ Musk's xAI set to launch first AI model to select group
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-03 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

Tesla and SpaceX's CEO Elon Musk pauses during an in-conversation event with British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in London, Britain, Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023. Kirsty Wigglesworth/Pool via REUTERS Acquire Licensing RightsNov 3 (Reuters) - Elon Musk's artificial intelligence startup xAI will release its first AI model to a select group on Saturday, the billionaire and Tesla (TSLA.O) CEO said on Friday. The team behind xAI, which launched in July this year, comes from Google's DeepMind, the Windows parent, and other top AI research firms. Though Musk-owned X, the social media firm formerly known as Twitter, and xAI are separate, the companies work closely together. Larry Ellison, co-founder of Oracle (ORCL.N) and a self-described close friend of Musk, said in September that xAI had signed a contract to train its AI model on Oracle's cloud.

Persons: Tesla, Elon Musk, Rishi Sunak, Kirsty Wigglesworth, OpenAI's ChatGPT, Google's, Bard, Microsoft's, Bing, Google's DeepMind, XAI, Larry Ellison, Musk, xAI, Akash Sriram, Shinjini Organizations: British, REUTERS Acquire, Elon, Twitter, Oracle, Thomson Locations: London, Britain, Bengaluru

☆ Elon Musk says his new startup xAI will debut its artificial intelligence Saturday
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-03 | by ( Hayden Field | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Elon Musk announced his new company xAI which he says has the goal to understand the true nature of the universe. Elon Musk said Friday that his AI company, xAI, will debut its technology on Saturday. "Tomorrow, xAI will release its first AI to a select group," Musk posted on X, formerly known as Twitter. In August, xAI seemed to be hiring, according to posts on social media by multiple members of the company. Musk incorporated xAI in Nevada in March, according to filings.

Persons: Elon Musk, xAI, Musk, Bard, Claude, Tesla, DeepMind's AlphaCode, OpenAI's, Greg Yang, Toby Pohlen, Dan Hendrycks Organizations: Google, Nvidia, Team, DeepMind, Google Research, Microsoft Research, Twitter, CNBC, Fox News Channel, xAI, X, X Corp, Center, AI Safety Locations: Nevada, San Francisco

☆ Firms like Meta and A16z admit having to pay billions for training data would ruin their generative-AI plans as they fight new copyright rules
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-03 | by ( Kali Hays | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

"Generative AI models need not only a massive quantity of content, but also a large diversity of content," Meta wrote in its comment. But those kinds of deals would provide AI developers with the rights to only a minuscule fraction of the data they need to train their models. And it would be impossible for AI developers to license the rights to other critical categories of works." None of the companies denied using copyrighted material without authorization from rights holders. Instead, they generally argued that putting copyrighted material on the internet makes it "publicly available" and therefore fair game for use.

Persons: Andreessen Horowitz, Google's Bard, OpenAI's, Meta, OpenAI, Bard, A16z, Vince Gilligan, doesn't, Kali Hays Organizations: US, Meta, Microsoft, Google, Apple, News Corp, Getty Locations: khays@insider.com

☆ LinkedIn's new AI chatbot wants to help you get a job
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-01 | by ( Hayden Field | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

LinkedIn debuted an artificial intelligence-powered chatbot Wednesday that it's billing as a "job seeker coach," and unveiled other generative AI tools for Premium members. The new AI chatbot, which aims in part to help users gauge whether a job application is worth their time, is powered by OpenAI's GPT-4 and began rolling out to some Premium users Wednesday. "We had to build a lot of stuff on our end to work around that and to make this a snappy experience," Berger told CNBC in an interview. The chatbot will also point to potential gaps in a user's experience that could hurt them in the job application process. In the past, many uses of AI in hiring or job applications have faced criticism for bias against marginalized communities.

Persons: OpenAI's GPT, Erran Berger, Berger, We've, we've, Jordan Novet Organizations: LinkedIn, Microsoft, CNBC, Harvard Business, Tech, Qualcomm

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