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☆ Signal CEO: OpenAI's ScarJo stunt is some 'edge lord' nonsense
  + stars: | 2024-05-24 | by ( Grace Eliza Goodwin | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
download the appSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. Signal's CEO has weighed in on the OpenAI-Scarlett Johansson controversy, accusing the buzzy AI company of having a "dorm room" culture. OpenAI unveiled the "Sky" artificial intelligence voice option last week alongside an announcement about the company's new GPT-4o large language model. On Monday, Johansson released a statement alleging that Altman had previously approached her about voicing Sky, which she declined. AdvertisementThe company has paused using the Sky voice in its products, OpenAI said.
Persons: —, Meredith Whittaker isn't, Scarlett Johansson, Whittaker, Sam Altman, Johansson, they're, OpenAI, Altman Organizations: Service, OpenAI, TechCrunch, Business
☆ In the battle of Telegram vs Signal, Elon Musk casts doubt on the security of the app he once championed
  + stars: | 2024-05-13 | by ( Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +8 min
Elon Musk once championed encrypted messaging app Signal, promoting its user privacy protections. Signal has been sharply criticized recently by a conservative activist and a rival app, Telegram. AdvertisementThe encryption wars brewing between the messaging apps Telegram and Signal have attracted the commentary of a high-profile critic: Elon Musk. In response to Rufo's post, Musk wrote cryptically, "There are known vulnerabilities with Signal that are not being addressed. Green, as well as Musk, Signal, and Telegram representatives, did not immediately respond to requests for comment from Business Insider.
Persons: Elon Musk, Musk, —, Elon, Pavel Durov, Durov, Tucker Carlson, Vladimir Putin, Jeff Bezos, Christopher Rufo —, Katherine Maher, Rufo, Maher, Edward Snowden, Meredith Whittaker, Whittaker, haven’t, IbXREWVaPL — Meredith Whittaker, @mer__edith, Jack Dorsey, — Elon, Johns Hopkins, Matthew Green, Green Organizations: Service, Fox News, NSA, Amazon, Elon, Telegram, Business Locations: Moscow
☆ Surveillance business model of the internet fuels today's tech industry: Signal president
  + stars: | 2024-01-17 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: 1 min
Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailSurveillance business model of the internet fuels today's tech industry: Signal presidentOnly a few actors, mostly in the U.S. followed by China, have the recourses to commercialize what we are calling AI and we need to understand AI as a derivative of the surveillance business model which threats our privacy, said Signal's President Meredith Whittaker.
Persons: Meredith Whittaker Locations: U.S, China
☆ A growing number of tech execs think AI is giving Big Tech 'inordinate' power
  + stars: | 2023-11-22 | by ( Arjun Kharpal | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +5 min
"Right now, there are only a handful of companies with the resources needed to create these large-scale AI models and deploy them at scale. McCourt also thinks AI could give too much power to tech giants. The inventor of the web, Tim Berners Lee, has also raised concerns about the concentration of power among the tech giants. On AI, however, he feels that while the technology giants now are leading the way, there is space for disruption. These are AI models that are not owned by a single entity, such as Google or Microsoft, and instead can be developed and added to by anyone.
Persons: OpenAI's ChatGPT, Meredith Whittaker, Whittaker, Maven, Frank McCourt, McCourt, Tim Berners Lee, Jimmy Wales, that's Organizations: Tech, Microsoft, Google, CNBC, Department of Defense, Los Angeles Dodgers, team, Liberty, Wales Locations: U.S, China, Wales
☆ Signal president 'concerned with surveillance across the board'
  + stars: | 2023-11-14 | by ( Arjun Kharpal | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: 1 min
Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailSignal president 'concerned with surveillance across the board'Meredith Whittaker, president of messaging app Signal, discusses the fight over the future of encryption and the power of Big Tech.
Persons: Meredith Whittaker Organizations: Email, Big Tech
☆ AI giving Big Tech 'inordinate power' over our lives, Signal president says
  + stars: | 2023-11-14 | by ( Arjun Kharpal | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: 1 min
Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailAI giving Big Tech 'inordinate power' over our lives, Signal president saysMeredith Whittaker, president of messaging app Signal, says that artificial intelligence today is "derivative of centralised corporate power and control." Whittaker said that AI is being developed on the "concentrated resources that accrued to a handful of large tech corporations."
Persons: Meredith Whittaker, Whittaker Organizations: Big Tech
☆ AI's most famous leaders are in a huge fight after one said Big Tech is cynically exaggerating the risk of AI wiping out humanity
  + stars: | 2023-11-01 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
Andrew Ng, formerly of Google Brain, said Big Tech is exaggerating the risk of AI wiping out humans. NEW LOOK Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. AdvertisementAdvertisementSome of the biggest figures in artificial intelligence are publicly arguing whether AI is really an extinction risk, after AI scientist Andrew Ng said such claims were a cynical play by Big Tech. Andew Ng , a cofounder of Google Brain, suggested to The Australian Financial Review that Big Tech was seeking to inflate fears around AI for its own benefit. — Geoffrey Hinton (@geoffreyhinton) October 31, 2023Meta's chief AI scientist Yann LeCun , also known as an AI godfather for his work with Hinton, sided with Ng.
Persons: Andrew Ng, OpenAI's Sam Altman, —, Andew Ng, Ng, It's, Elon Musk, Sam Altman, DeepMind, Demis Hassabis, Googler Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua, godfathers, — Geoffrey Hinton, Yann LeCun, Hinton, LeCun, Meredith Whittaker, Whittaker Organizations: Google, Big Tech, AI's, Service, Australian Financial Locations: Hinton, British, Canadian, @geoffreyhinton
☆ Signal's president doubts Elon Musk can successfully turn Twitter into a 'super app' like WeChat
  + stars: | 2023-09-04 | by ( Kali Hays | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
The leader of tech's favorite texting app suspects there will never be a WeChat in the U.S.Elon Musk is attempting to turn Twitter, renamed X, into just such an app. AdvertisementAdvertisementThe odds of Elon Musk turning Twitter into the next "super app" are slim, according to the president of Signal. Signal is a fully encrypted app for calls and texts that is widely used in the tech industry, including by Musk. "People have been talking about it for years, and we still don't have a super app," she said in an interview with Swiss magazine Schweizer Monat. Meta, formerly known as Facebook, has also been attempting for a couple of years to build WhatsApp into something akin to a super app.
Persons: Elon Musk, Meredith Whittaker, Signal's, Whittaker, Schweizer, Musk, Linda Yaccarino, Mark Zuckerberg, Dara Khosrowshahi, Uber Organizations: U.S, Elon, Twitter, Morning, Google, Swiss, Facebook Locations: China, Asia, WeChat, Japan, Kakao, Korea, U.S, West
☆ Washington crowned a bunch of rich dudes the most important people in AI
  + stars: | 2023-08-31 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Sen. Chuck Schumer is hosting sessions to help lawmakers understand and shape future rules on AI. AdvertisementAdvertisementMeredith Whittaker, president of messaging app Signal and former director of AI think tank the AI Now Institute, posted on X: "This is the room you pull together when your staffers want pictures with tech industry AI celebrities. It's not the room you'd assemble when you want to better understand what AI is, how (and for whom) it functions, and what to do about it." This is the room you pull together when your staffers want pictures with tech industry AI celebrities. It's not the room you'd assemble when you want to better understand what AI is, how (and for whom) it functions, and what to do about it.
Persons: Sen, Chuck Schumer, Axios, Mark Zuckerberg —, Sam Altman, Sundar Pichai, Satya Nadella, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Per, Maria Curi, Rumman Chowdhury, Deborah Raji, Tristan Harris, b9mJhW39NW — Maria Cristina Curi, OpenAI, Alex Karp, Jack Clark, Clement Delangue, Meredith Whittaker, It's, UM1EhFNb1H — Meredith Whittaker, Face's Delangue Organizations: Morning, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla, Center of Humane, Meta, Nvidia Locations: Washington
☆ After OpenAI hearing, A.I. experts urge Congress to listen to more diverse voices on regulation
  + stars: | 2023-05-19 | by ( Lauren Feiner | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +11 min
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman testifies before a Senate Judiciary Privacy, Technology, and the Law Subcommittee hearing titled 'Oversight of A.I. But at Tuesday's hearing on AI oversight including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, lawmakers seemed notably more welcoming toward the ChatGPT maker. watch nowAt Tuesday's Senate hearing, lawmakers made comparisons to the social media era, noting their surprise that industry executives showed up asking for regulation. Experts cautioned that the kinds of regulation Altman suggested, like an agency to oversee AI, could actually stall regulation and entrench incumbents. Diversity of voicesA key message AI experts have for lawmakers and government officials is to include a wider array of voices, both in personal background and field of experience.
☆ Google employees who tested its ChatGPT rival Bard reportedly called it 'cringeworthy' and a 'pathological liar,' and said the AI's responses could 'result in serious injury or death'
  + stars: | 2023-04-19 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Google employees who tested Bard called it "cringeworthy" and a "pathological liar," per Bloomberg. Google employees tasked with testing their employer's AI chatbot Bard were not all that pleased by what they found, according to Bloomberg. After testing the bot, one employee reportedly called Bard "cringeworthy," and another called it a "pathological liar," according to screenshots of internal discussions obtained by Bloomberg. Google employees called the announcement "rushed" and "botched." Read Bloomberg's full report on Google employees' responses to Bard here
☆ Signal President Meredith Whittaker learned what not to do from working at Google
  + stars: | 2023-03-31 | by ( Jonathan Vanian | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +7 min
Meredith Whittaker, a former Google Manager who is now president at Signal. Whittaker has real-world reasons to be skeptical of for-profit companies and their use of data — she previously spent 13 years at Google . Signal app SignalAt Signal, Whittaker gets to focus on the mission without worrying about sales. Beyond just the confusing structure of OpenAI, Whittaker is out on the ChatGPT hype. And she definitely wants people to know that Signal has absolutely no plans to incorporate ChatGPT into its service.
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