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☆ OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman returns after three months of leave
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-12 | by ( Hayden Field | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Greg Brockman speaks onstage at "OpenAI Co-founder on ChatGPT, DALL·E, and the Impact of Generative AI" during 2023 SXSW Conference and Festivals at Austin Convention Center on March 10, 2023 in Austin, Texas. OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman has returned to the company as president, three months after announcing he would take a sabbatical "through end of year." In late September, OpenAI Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati announced she would depart the company after six and a half years. The same day, research chief Bob McGrew and Barret Zoph, a research vice president, said they were leaving. OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever and former safety leader Jan Leike announced their departures in May, with Leike joining rival Anthropic.

Persons: Greg Brockman, OpenAI, Mira Murati, Bob McGrew, Barret Zoph, Ilya Sutskever, Jan Leike, Anthropic ., John Schulman, Lilian Weng, Brockman, Sam Altman, Altman, Altman's Organizations: Austin Convention Center, OpenAI, Leike, Anthropic, Google Locations: Austin , Texas

☆ OpenAI Taps VP Lilian Weng to Lead Risk Management for AI Models
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-24 | by ( Darius Rafieyan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: 1 min

Weng joined OpenAI in 2018 after working as a data scientist and software engineer at major Silicon Valley companies, including Meta (then Facebook), Dropbox, and Affirm. Weng, part of Business Insider's 2024 AI Power List, took over the preparedness team after its former leader Aleksander Madry was reassigned in July. It's part of a broader effort within the company to consolidate safety research under Weng, who also serves on the board's safety and security committee. As policymakers and consumers focus more attention on the security implications of high-powered AI models, Weng's role within the company is likely to become even more important. See Business Insider's full AI Power List

Persons: Weng, OpenAI, Aleksander Madry Organizations: Meta, Facebook

☆ OpenAI's power players: Meet the 20 leaders helping shape the future of the AI giant
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-18 | by ( Darius Rafieyan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +18 min

Last November, the sudden ouster of CEO Sam Altman and the resulting revolt by most of its employees cast doubts on the future of the world's most prominent AI company. While by no means a comprehensive list, below are some of the key power players who are helping to determine OpenAI's future. He took over for his former boss, Jason Kwon, who has since become the company's chief strategy officer. She's also been referred to as OpenAI's "minister of truth" for her efforts to ensure the company's AI products aren't deceptive or biased. ResearchJakub Pachocki, Chief ScientistRelated storiesPachocki joined OpenAI's research in 2017 after completing a PhD in computer science at Carnegie Mellon University.

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☆ An OpenAI staffer who had 'personal, emotional' conversations with ChatGPT has sparked a massive debate about using AI chatbots for therapy
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-27 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

On Tuesday, Lilian Weng, head of safety systems at OpenAI, wrote on X that she "just had a quite emotional, personal conversation" with ChatGPT in voice mode. Try it especially if you usually just use it as a productivity tool," Weng wrote. AdvertisementAdvertisementJust had a quite emotional, personal conversation w/ ChatGPT in voice mode, talking about stress, work-life balance. OpenAI and Weng did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment made outside of normal working hours. Mehtab Khan, fellow at Harvard University's Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, described Weng's post as "a dangerous characterization of an AI tool, and also yet another example of anthropomorphizing AI without thinking about how existing rules apply/don't apply."

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☆ The world's most-powerful AI model suddenly got 'lazier' and 'dumber.' A radical redesign of OpenAI's GPT-4 could be behind the decline in performance.
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-12 | by ( Alistair Barr | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Lately, the giant AI model has become faster, but performance has declined. The world's most-powerful AI model has become, well, less powerful. It's considered the most-powerful AI model available broadly and is multimodal, which means it can understand images as well as text inputs. They think OpenAI is creating several smaller GPT-4 models that act similarly to the large model but are less expensive to run. This week, several AI experts posted what they claimed were details of GPT-4's architecture on Twitter.

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