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☆ OpenAI announces new independent board oversight committee focused on safety
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-16 | by ( Hayden Field | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

OpenAI on Monday said its Safety and Security Committee, which the company introduced in May as it dealt with controversy over security processes, will become an independent board oversight committee. Other members include Adam D'Angelo, an OpenAI board member and co-founder of Quora, former NSA chief and board member Paul Nakasone, and Nicole Seligman, former executive vice president at Sony. The committee will oversee "the safety and security processes guiding OpenAI's model deployment and development," the company said. The company said the committee "reviewed the safety and security criteria that OpenAI used to assess OpenAI o1's fitness for launch," as well as safety evaluation results. Leike wrote in a post on X that OpenAI's "safety culture and processes have taken a backseat to shiny products."

Persons: Sam Altman, OpenAI, Zico Kolter, Adam D'Angelo, Quora, Paul Nakasone, Nicole Seligman, it's, Ilya Sutskever, Jan Leike, Leike Organizations: Microsoft, Security Committee, Carnegie Mellon University's, NSA, Sony, Tiger Global, Nvidia, Apple, OpenAI o1, Democratic Locations: Redmond , Washington, OpenAI

☆ We asked OpenAI's new o1 model what it thought about its own name. It didn't hold back.
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-14 | by ( Lauren Edmonds | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

OpenAI has introduced o1, a new model with "enhanced reasoning capabilities." BI tested the new model to see if it could reason its way to a better brand name. Even CEO Sam Altman has admitted OpenAI needs better product names. Go to newsletter preferences Thanks for signing up! AdvertisementOpenAI needs better product names.

Persons: OpenAI, Sam Altman, —, Trevor Noah's Organizations: BI, Service, OpenAI o1, Business

OpenAI stormed onto the scene with ChatGPT and upended the tech world in less than two years. But over the next few months, the artificial intelligence darling will face some of its biggest tests yet. A highly anticipated partnership with Apple will supercharge its reach, putting it in front of millions of users who may have never interacted with generative AI before. A massive valuation that is growing at breakneck pace has set the stakes higher than ever, especially with interest from investors including Apple and Nvidia . Watch this video to learn more.

Persons: OpenAI, ChatGPT, OpenAI's, Sam Altman Organizations: Apple, Nvidia, o1

☆ Sam Altman may be in his villain era, but no one seems to care
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-14 | by ( Madeline Berg | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

As one VC partner told Business Insider at the time: "Sam is bigger than Taylor Swift." But the bigger you are, the faster the fall, and a few months later, things began to unravel. Others simply said Altman was overhyped, that he didn't have all the answers that the public and investors seemed to expect of him. Thanks to good old-fashioned capitalism, Altman and OpenAI have enjoyed business win after win and held their positions as the leaders in the aggressive AI race. "I thought Sam Altman did a really good job in the special," she told The Washington Post in a discussion about her TV program on artificial intelligence.

Persons: —, Sam Altman, Taylor Swift, Altman, Oscar, Scarlett Johansson, Johansson, Ilya Sutskever, Jan Leike, Leike, Anthropic —, Greg Brockman, OpenAI, Siri, Goldman Sachs, OpenAI fanboys, Wharton, Ethan Mollick, Anderson Cooper, Josh Kushner —, Oprah Winfrey Organizations: Service, OpenAI, Business, —, Leike, Apple, Microsoft, Nvidia, tech's, o1, Washington Locations: OpenAI —, Valley

☆ OpenAI's o1 model is inching closer to human-like intelligence — but don't get carried away
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-13 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

AGI is a distance awayOpenAI's new o1 models make improvements in the ability of AI models to reason. AdvertisementIn some ways, the o1 models do enter OpenAI into a new paradigm. pic.twitter.com/niqRO9hhg1 — Noam Brown (@polynoamial) September 12, 2024Where previous AI models were bottlenecked by the data fed to them during the "pre-training" phase, Brown wrote, o1 models showed that "we can now scale inference". Related storiesJim Fan, a senior research scientist at Nvidia, noted that the technicalities underlying this are what have helped make this fundamental breakthrough of OpenAI's o1 models possible. Uncertainty hovers over how o1 models will perform more broadly.

Persons: —, OpenAI, Sam Altman, Noam Brown, niqRO9hhg1 — Noam Brown, Brown, Jim Fan, Fan, Altman, Will Depue, — Sam Altman, Ethan Mollick, it's Organizations: Service, Business, o1, International, pretraining, Nvidia, OpenAI's o1, Wharton Locations: San Francisco

☆ ChatGPT maker says its new AI model can reason and think ‘much like a person’
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-13 | by ( Olesya Dmitracova | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

London CNN —OpenAI has unveiled a new artificial intelligence model that it says can “reason” and solve harder problems in science, coding and math than its predecessors. The model, the first in a series called OpenAI o1, was released Thursday as a preview, with the firm saying it expects regular updates and improvements. “We trained these models to spend more time thinking through problems before they respond, much like a person would,” the maker of ChatGPT said on its website. The new OpenAI model doesn’t yet have many of the features “that make ChatGPT useful,” the firm said, like browsing the web for information, and uploading files and images. In tests, OpenAI o1 performs similarly to PhD students on difficult benchmark tasks in physics, chemistry and biology, according to the company.

Persons: London CNN — OpenAI, “, ChatGPT, OpenAI, Noam Brown, ”, Sam Altman, Ruth Porat, Dario Amodei Organizations: London CNN, White House, OpenAI, Google, CNN, OpenAI o1, International

☆ Sam Altman is on the charm offensive for AI
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-13 | by ( Lloyd Lee | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

For the past year, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has been trying to convince the world that he can be trusted to lead the people to the next frontier of artificial intelligence. In it, she speaks to key figures of the tech industry, including Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates, about the impacts of AI. AdvertisementThroughout the interview, Altman could be seen listening intently to Winfrey's simple but direct line of questioning. One of the points Winfrey pressed Altman on was that of public trust. Winfrey also asked Altman how he feels about being billed "the most powerful and perhaps most dangerous man on the planet."

Persons: Sam Altman, Oprah Winfrey, Altman, Bill Gates, Winfrey, Christopher, Marilynne Robinson, coy, it's, I'm, OpenAI Organizations: Service, Business, ABC, Microsoft, Bloomberg, Apple, Nvidia Locations: ChatGPT

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