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Sam Altman, chief executive officer of OpenAI, at the Hope Global Forums annual meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, US, on Monday, Dec. 11, 2023. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says concerns that artificial intelligence will one day become so powerful that it will dramatically reshape and disrupt the world are overblown. "It will change the world much less than we all think and it will change jobs much less than we all think," Altman said at a conversation organized by Bloomberg at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. "Yes, for sure, I think that's something to think about," Altman said. WATCH: OpenAI, Microsoft and NYT will likely reach a settlement

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☆ He's played chess with Peter Thiel, sparred with Elon Musk and once, supposedly, stopped a plane crash: Inside Sam Altman's world, where truth is stranger than fiction
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-27 | by ( Melia Russell | Julia Black | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +41 min

But, "you do at some point need to start having contact with reality," he told Insider. The plan was still only a rough sketch, Blania told Insider, but that didn't seem to matter to his host. "He always wanted to understand everything at a very deep level," Thrun told Insider in an email. (When asked about guns, Altman told Insider he'd been "happy to have one both times my home was broken into while I was there.") When asked about this, Altman told Insider in an email: "i can guess what that's about; these stories grow crazily inflated over the years of getting re-told!

☆ Sam Altman is building his utopia, whether you want it or not
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-27 | by ( Melia Russell | Julia Black | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +41 min

Altman told Insider, "We debate our approach frequently and carefully." "I don't think anyone can lose your dad young and wish he didn't have more time with him," Altman told Insider. Altman told Insider that his thinking had evolved since those posts. (When asked about guns, Altman told Insider he'd been "happy to have one both times my home was broken into while I was there.") When asked about this, Altman told Insider in an email: "i can guess what that's about; these stories grow crazily inflated over the years of getting re-told!

☆ OpenAI's GPT-4 upgrade will let you turn text into video, Microsoft exec says ahead of upcoming release
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-13 | by ( Pete Syme | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A Microsoft executive said OpenAI's new model will be released this week, per a German news outlet. GPT-4 will be able to turn text into video, a feature already included in Google and Meta AIs. Braun added that the more powerful AI will be introduced this week, putting an end to speculation over its release. The OpenAI CTO, Mira Murati, has also said "I think less hype would be good," but added it may "broaden opportunities," per FastCompany. Microsoft and OpenAI did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment, sent outside US working hours.

☆ Open AI's tech chief wants people to chill out about the next version of ChatGPT: 'Less hype would be good.'
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-01 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

OpenAI's chief tech officer wants less hype around GPT-4, an update to the model that powers ChatGPT. OpenAI has not said when it will release GPT-4, though Murati said it may "broaden opportunities." But Mira Murati, OpenAI's chief technology officer, wants the world to chill out a little. "I think less hype would be good," Murati told Fast Company when asked about GPT-4, an upgrade to GPT-3.5, the language processing model that currently runs ChatGPT. "With ChatGPT, you can have this infinite interaction and have it teach you about complex topics in a way that's based on your context," Murati told Fast Company.

☆ AI like ChatGPT amplifies 'darkest aspects of human nature,' Pinterest CEO warns
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-22 | by ( Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Pinterest CEO Bill Ready warned that emerging AI tech could accelerate the negative impact of social media on mental health. During an interview with "Good Morning America," the CEO said that AI amplifies the "darkest aspects of human nature." The Pinterest CEO made the comments during a recent interview with "Good Morning America." "Interestingly, the discussion has been that this is just human nature — the social media platforms are just reflecting human nature — but in reality AI has been amplifying the darkest aspects of human nature," he said. Ready is far from the first executive to sound the alarm on emerging AI technology.

☆ How to Spot Robots in a World of A.I.-Generated Text
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-17 | by ( Keith Collins | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +9 min

A detection tool that knew which words were on the special list would be able to tell the difference between generated text and text written by a person. That would be especially helpful for this generated text, as it includes several factual inaccuracies. By contrast, the detection tool OpenAI released requires a minimum of 1,000 characters. A person could repeatedly edit generated text and check it against a detection tool until the text is identified as human-written — and that process could potentially be automated. By that time, educators and researchers had already been calling for tools to help them identify generated text.

☆ ChatGPT created a lesson plan on the American Civil War, but educators who looked at it warned the subject might be more than AI can handle
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-16 | by ( Jordan Hart | Sam Tabahriti | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Insider asked ChatGPT to create a high school-level history lesson to test the accuracy of OpenAI's anti-cheating tool. The tool failed to detect the lesson plan created by AI, so we asked an education expert for his opinion. We asked ChatGPT to write a 45-minute lesson plan for high school students on the American Civil War. But even though Insider asked for a 45-minute lesson, ChatGPT provided a total of 55 minutes. "This exact lesson plan could be taught very differently depending on the teacher, so I am curious how a more robust lesson plan would look."

☆ CEO of ChatGPT maker OpenAI says AI will be 'the greatest force for economic empowerment' we've ever seen
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-15 | by ( Sarah Jackson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The popularity of AI chatbots like ChatGPT has people concerned that AI may steal their jobs. Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, the company that made ChatGPT. Altman says he thinks AI will be the "greatest force for economic empowerment" we've ever seen. "I think AI is going to be the greatest force for economic empowerment and a lot of people getting rich we have ever seen," Altman said in a tweet on Monday. In an interview last month with StrictlyVC's Connie Loizos, Altman was similarly asked for his predictions on the future of AI.

☆ All you need to know about ChatGPT, the A.I. chatbot that's got the world talking and tech giants clashing
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-08 | by ( Ryan Browne | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

ChatGPT is an AI chatbot developed by San Francisco-based startup OpenAI. These are tools that allow users to enter written prompts and receive new human-like text or images and videos generated by the AI. With a whopping 175 billion parameters, GPT-3 is one of the largest and most powerful language processing AI models to date. watch nowWhat makes ChatGPT so impressive is its ability to produce human-like responses, thanks in no small part to the vast amounts of data it is trained on. No generative AI application has quite managed to achieve the kind of influence and virality that ChatGPT has.

☆ Schools are banning ChatGPT but an OpenAI exec says the technology is a vital tool to improve learning in classrooms
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-05 | by ( Jordan Hart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

In an interview with Time magazine, Mira Murati — chief technology officer at OpenAI, the company behind the buzzy AI chatbot ChatGPT — said schools shouldn't rush to ban the technology on their campuses due to concerns over cheating. Instead, Murati said ChatGPT "has the potential to really revolutionize the way we learn," particularly in settings where not everyone has the same learning preferences or abilities. Still, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman echoed Murati, stating he also believes ChatGPT has a place in schools and considers it a more engaging way to learn. "I have used it to learn things myself and found it much more compelling than other ways I've learned things in the past," Altman told StrictlyVC. A digital-media lecturer at the University of Leeds, for example, told Insider she's used AI in her classroom since 2018.

☆ ChatGPT could be used by 'bad actors' and should be regulated, OpenAI's chief technology officer says
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-05 | by ( Sam Tabahriti | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

The chief technology officer at ChatGPT creator OpenAI said the tool could be used by "bad actors." "There are questions about how you govern the use of this technology globally," she added. She added ChatGPT may "make up facts," in common with other tools powered by AI based on a language model. One man used it, alongside another AI tool to create graphics, to write a children's book. Researchers went further and made ChatGPT pass all three parts of the United States medical licensing examination.

☆ 7 ways to use ChatGPT at work to boost your productivity, make your job easier, and save a ton of time
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-04 | by ( Jacob Zinkula | Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

With its impressive functions, the buzzy AI chatbot could give some workers a "productivity boost." Insider compiled a list of seven ways workers can use the AI tool to help do their jobs. But they can help workers across many industries – from tech to media – do their jobs better and more quickly. Workers should be careful when using AI tools, as the tech can be prone to misinformation, and it can remove the human touch from tasks like writing. Here's how you can use ChatGPT and AI to help make your work life easier.

☆ A Wharton business school professor is requiring his students to use ChatGPT
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-26 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

UPenn professor Ethan Mollick now requires his students to use ChatGPT in their studies, per NPR. While some schools banned ChatGPT, Mollick said that it can serve as a useful learning tool. Ethan Mollick, an entrepreneurship and innovation professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, told NPR on Thursday that he now requires his students to use ChatGPT to help with their classwork. His new AI policy — which NPR reviewed — calls AI usage an "emerging skill." During class this week, nearly all of his students used ChatGPT to help generate project ideas for an assignment.

☆ The CEO of the company behind AI chatbot ChatGPT says the worst-case scenario for artificial intelligence is 'lights out for all of us'
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-25 | by ( Sarah Jackson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, which made ChatGPT, thinks the best-case scenario for artificial intelligence is "unbelievably good" but fears the worst case is "lights out for all of us." In a recent interview, Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, which is the company behind ChatGPT, offered his take on the possible pros and cons of artificial intelligence. I think the good case is just so unbelievably good that you sound like a really crazy person to start talking about it." His thoughts on the worst case scenario, though, were pretty bleak. In the StrictlyVC interview, Altman pushed back on the concern of plagiarism, saying, "We adapted to calculators and changed what we tested for in math class, I imagine.

☆ OpenAI executives say releasing ChatGPT for public use was a last resort after running into multiple hurdles — and they're shocked by its popularity
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-25 | by ( Sarah Jackson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT has seen massive popularity since its public release in November. Executives at OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, told Fortune they're shocked by its popularity and that taking it to the public was kind of a last resort after earlier hiccups. "I'll admit that I was on the side of, like, I don't know if this is going to work," OpenAI president Greg Brockman told Fortune. Even executives at OpenAI, the company behind the viral chatbot, are shocked by its popularity. "I'll admit that I was on the side of, like, I don't know if this is going to work," OpenAI co-founder and president Greg Brockman told Fortune.

☆ Google isn't just afraid of competition from ChatGPT — the giant is scared ChatGPT will kill AI
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-20 | by ( Diamond Naga Siu | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

A perfect example of this is the viral technology ChatGPT. ChatGPT makes a lot of people nervous (here's everything you need to know about it, BTW). Or maybe one day ChatGPT will just teach the class — that's probably part of Google's AI nightmare. If ChatGPT runs rampant, the search giant fears it could ruin AI adoption for everyone. My colleague Hasan Chowdhury breaks down how so-called generative AI — not just ChatGPT — could derail an entire sector of emerging technology.

☆ CEO of ChatGPT maker responds to schools' plagiarism concerns: 'We adapted to calculators and changed what we tested in math class'
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-19 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

CEO Sam Altman said in an interview that OpenAI will devise ways to identity chatGPT plagiarism. But creating tools that perfectly detect AI plagiarism is fundamentally impossible, he said. Altman warns schools and policy makers to avoid relying on plagiarism detection tools. "There may be ways we can help teachers be a little more likely to detect output of a GPT-like system. "We adapted to calculators and changed what we tested for in math class, I imagine.

☆ Sequoia Capital cuts fees for new funds amid VC slowdown
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-13 | by ( Krystal Hu | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Jan 13 (Reuters) - Sequoia Capital has lowered management fees in its two recently-launched venture funds as it braces for a slower investment environment, partner Alfred Lin said on Thursday. Sequoia launched a $950 million ecosystem fund to back scouts and funds formed by Sequoia alums, and a $600 million crypto fund to invest in crypto companies and tokens. So far, 10% of the crypto fund has been deployed, Lin said. The move marks an unusual concession by the world’s top venture investor after U.S. venture capital deals fell from their 2021 peak by 31%. Lin said the firm remained committed to crypto investment.

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