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☆ 'We're not at the moon yet': Human-like A.I. is still some way off, early investor in Google's DeepMind says
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-04 | by ( Ryan Browne | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

"In terms of artificial general intelligence, OpenAI, ChatGPT stuff: it's like saying we're going to jump to the moon," Humayun Sheikh, a founding investor in AI startup DeepMind, which is now owned by Google , told CNBC in an interview. We are still some way off reaching human-level artificial intelligence despite rapid advances in the technology, according to an early investor in research laboratory DeepMind. His comments come as Google-parent Alphabet merges DeepMind with Google Brain, part of the U.S. internet giant's research division. Earlier this week, Demis Hassabis, the founder of DeepMind, told the Wall Street Journal that some form of AGI might be possible "in the next few years." How do we put that boundary around it and make sure AI doesn't go out of control?," Sheikh said.

☆ The Future of Everything Festival: AI’s Path Forward, Michelle Obama and More
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-04 | by ( Sunshine Contacts Ceo Marissa Mayer Believes Great Things Will Come Out Of Artificial Intelligence But Is Cautiously Optimistic. | Former Federal Reserve Vice Chair Richard Clarida Discussed The Challenge That Comes With The Fed Pausing Its Rate-Rise Campaign. | Google Deepmind Ceo Demis Hassabis Talked About Building Cognitive Function Within Ai. | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

“If you want to change the game, you can't just work from the outside. You’ve got to get inside.”Former first lady Michelle Obama on finding ways to change the food and beverage industry. Gary He for The Wall Street Journal

☆ The Future of Everything Festival: AI's Path Forward, Michelle Obama and More
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-04 | by ( Sunshine Contacts Ceo Marissa Mayer Believes Great Things Will Come Out Of Artificial Intelligence But Is Cautiously Optimistic. | Former Federal Reserve Vice Chair Richard Clarida Discussed The Challenge That Comes With The Fed Pausing Its Rate-Rise Campaign. | Google Deepmind Ceo Demis Hassabis Talked About Building Cognitive Function Within Ai. | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

☆ Google tells staff it plans to limit publishing AI research to 'compete and keep knowledge in house' as its rivalry with Microsoft's OpenAI heats up
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-04 | by ( Thomas Maxwell | Hugh Langley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Google told staff it will be more selective about the research it publishes. Recently, information like code and data has become accessible on a "much more on a need-to-know" basis, according to a Google AI staffer. LaMDA, a chatbot technology that forms the basis of Bard, was originally built as a 20 percent project within Google Brain. (The company has historically allowed employees to spend 20% of their working days exploring side projects that might turn into full-fledged Google products.) Google's AI division has faced other setbacks.

☆ Google DeepMind CEO Says Some Form of AGI Possible in a Few Years
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-03 | by ( Miles Kruppa | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Demis Hassabis at The Wall Street Journal’s Future of Everything Festival in New York on Tuesday. Photo: Gary He for The Wall Street Journal

☆ Google DeepMind boss predicts AI as powerful as the human brain could arrive within the next few years, report says
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-03 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

DeepMind boss Demis Hassabis believes AI as smart as humans might not be far off. He made the comments at a Wall Street Journal conference. AI that is as powerful as the human brain could arrive within the next few years, according to the boss of Google-owned AI lab DeepMind. The Wall Street Journal reported the news. Speaking at a Wall Street Journal conference, Hassabis acknowledged that "progress in the last few years has been pretty incredible."

☆ My Weekend With an Emotional Support A.I. Companion
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-03 | by ( Erin Griffith | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Adam Miner, a Stanford University researcher who studies chatbots, said the ease of talking to A.I. Mustafa Suleyman, Inflection’s chief executive, said his start-up, which is structured as a public benefit corporation, aims to build honest and trustworthy A.I. As a result, Pi must express uncertainty and “know what it does not know,” he said. “It shouldn’t try to pretend that it’s human or pretend that it is anything that it isn’t.”Mr. Suleyman, who also founded the A.I. He also said Pi did not use any personally identifiable information to train the algorithm that drives Inflection’s technology.

☆ Reid Hoffman's new AI startup Inflection launches ChatGPT-like chatbot
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-02 | by ( Krystal Hu | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

May 2 (Reuters) - Inflection AI, the AI startup founded by LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and former Deepmind (GOOGL.O) researcher Mustafa Suleyman, has released its first AI chatbot product, the company said on Tuesday. Similar to the viral chatbot ChatGPT, Inflection's AI chatbot, named Pi, uses generative AI technology to interact with users through conversations, in which people can ask questions and share interests. Inflection AI said it developed the technology in-house and its Pi chatbot is built on prioritizing human conversations with a high level of emotional intelligence. Pi uses user data, including conversational content, to train its AI systems, according to its terms of service. Chatbot powered by generative AI technology has become a crowded field since OpenAI's ChatGPT burst into the scene last November.

☆ Elon Musk once tried to buy DeepMind because he thought Google couldn't be trusted with advanced AI, report says
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-02 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Elon Musk tried to buy DeepMind ahead of Google because of trust issues, a new report says. Elon Musk made a last-minute attempt to buy DeepMind before Google finalized its $500 million deal for the AI lab a decade ago because he feared the search giant couldn't be trusted to create advanced AI, according to a new report. Musk's plans to buy DeepMind were informal and didn't reach DeepMind's board, the Journal reported. He has also criticized the rival AI lab he cofounded, OpenAI, for publicly rolling out tools such as ChatGPT despite issues such as bias. Musk, Google, and DeepMind did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

☆ Tech giants are pouring money into A.I. as they cut costs elsewhere
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-28 | by ( Kif Leswing | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

He said Google is using AI to improve the conversion rate of ads and reduce the amount of "toxic text" that goes into AI models. "There will be a small number of companies that want to invest that time and money and we will be one of them at Amazon," Jassy said. A concept he's particularly excited about is "AI agents," which often refer to AI programs that can carry out goals. "At this point we are no longer behind in building out our AI infrastructure," Zuckerberg said. Zuckerberg said the company would need to "continue investing," but would do so after it launches its generative AI products and gets a better grasp on the resources required.

☆ Google and DeepMind must put aside years of rivalry and risk ruffling feathers to take on OpenAI, ex-employees and collaborators say
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-28 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Google and DeepMind must collaborate more despite the risk of internal turmoil, sources told the FT.A newly formed AI unit named Google DeepMind risks ruffling feathers, the publication reported. Google and DeepMind are reportedly risking internal turmoil by collaborating more to thwart the growing threat posed by OpenAI. The Financial Times reported the news, citing people familiar with the matter. Former employees and collaborators at both companies told the paper that the newly formed unit, known as Google DeepMind, would need to put aside "years of rivalry" to see off the challenge from OpenAI. But the integration of DeepMind with Google's AI lab is fraught with risk.

☆ Elon Musk cut off OpenAI's access to Twitter's data because he felt the company wasn't paying enough, report says
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-28 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

In December, Elon Musk shut off OpenAI's access to Twitter's data, the New York Times reported. Musk reportedly felt the AI company was not paying enough for access, per the publication. In December, only weeks after OpenAI launched ChatGPT, the company had its access to Twitter's data shut down, per a report. Musk felt that the approximately $2 million a year OpenAI was paying to license the company's data was not enough,The AI company had been licensing Twitter's data to help build its AI chatbot, per the NYT. Representatives for OpenAI and Elon Musk did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment, made outside normal working hours.

In December, Elon Musk became angry about the development of artificial intelligence and put his foot down. He had learned of a relationship between OpenAI, the start-up behind the popular chatbot ChatGPT, and Twitter, which he had bought in October for $44 billion. Mr. Musk believed the A.I. So Mr. Musk cut OpenAI off from Twitter’s data, they said. Since then, Mr. Musk has ramped up his own A.I.

Google used the term 52 times on its first-quarter call on Tuesday, up from 45 in the fourth quarter. Both companies said AI was already juicing sales, but neither said when or if they would start breaking out any sales, costs, or profits from the technology. Bing has lagged Google search for decades but Nadella said that Bing downloads had jumped since the addition of AI features and now had 100 million daily users. Toyama said Google already used AI to monetize their search algorithms and he did not expect AI advances from its rivals to be as much of a threat as some thought. Meta, which has admitted it is playing catch-up in AI, has published an AI model that can pick out individual objects from within an image.

☆ Google had a 'Kodak moment' last year as Microsoft takes lead in AI, strategist says
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-26 | by ( Arjun Kharpal | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Google launched Bard AI, it's own chatbot to rival Microsoft and OpenAI's ChatGPT. Google last year had a "Kodak moment" when it came to artificial intelligence, giving rival Microsoft an edge with the technology, one strategist told CNBC on Wednesday. "Microsoft is currently winning this race in AI," Mewawalla told CNBC's "Squawk Box Europe." Mewawalla said this should have been done "a long time ago" and that Google, even though it has "great AI," fell behind Microsoft last year. "In a way in 2022, it (Google) had a Kodak moment.

☆ Inside the AI talent wars: Tech companies are ransacking university AI programs at Stanford, MIT, and Cornell in search of engineers
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-24 | by ( Stephanie Palazzolo | Melia Russell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

Driven by the recent AI boom, companies are raiding top college campuses for rare technical talent. She's currently on leave from her Stanford AI Ph.D. program to focus on Moonhub. In 2011, new AI Ph.D. graduates took jobs in the tech industry and academia in about equal measure. But since then, the majority of new grads have headed to the AI industry, with nearly double the percentage of AI Ph.D. grads taking industry jobs versus academic roles in 2021, according to Stanford's Institute for Human-Centered AI's 2023 AI Index Report. "All AI companies have roles for people with Ph.D.s and without," said Attaluri, the soon-to-be researcher at DeepMind.

☆ Google to combine AI research units Google Research, DeepMind
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-20 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

April 20 (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc (GOOGL.O) said on Thursday it will combine two of its divisions working on artificial intelligence research, Google Research and DeepMind, into a new unit, Google DeepMind. Reporting by Yuvraj Malik in BengaluruOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Read the internal memo Alphabet sent in merging A.I.-focused groups DeepMind and Google Brain
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-20 | by ( Jennifer Elias | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

Jeff Dean, head of artificial intelligence at Google LLC, speaks during a Google AI event in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2020. The two divisions, DeepMind and Google Research, have also reportedly had tensions in the past, leading DeepMind to seek more independence. This group, called Google DeepMind, will bring together part of Google Research (the Brainteam) and DeepMind. Google DeepMind will operate as a nimble, fast-paced unit, with clear points of connection andcollaboration with Google Research and the PAs. Working closely with Jeff as ChiefScientist, Google Research will continue its focus on fundamental and applied research across abroad portfolio.

☆ Alphabet to combine AI research units Google Brain, DeepMind
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-20 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

April 20 (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc (GOOGL.O) is combining Google Brain and DeepMind, as it doubles down on artificial intelligence research in its race to compete with rival systems like OpenAI's ChatGPT chatbot. The new division will be led by DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis and its setting up will ensure "bold and responsible development of general AI", Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said in a blog post on Thursday. Going forward, the Alphabet staff will work on "multimodal" AI, like OpenAI's latest model GPT-4, which can respond not only to text prompts but to image inputs as well to generate new content. Google has for decades dominated the search market, with a share of over 80%, but Wall Street fears that the Alphabet unit could fall behind Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) in the fast-moving AI race. Technology from OpenAI, funded by Microsoft, powers the rival software maker's updated Bing search engine.

☆ An AI researcher that Elon Musk hired was arrested in a domestic violence case
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-20 | by ( Sindhu Sundar | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Elon Musk's new AI researcher Igor Babuschkin was arrested in March in a domestic violence case. Musk reportedly hired Babuschkin as part of a push to develop a competitor to OpenAI's ChatGPT. The case involved "a minor injury," but did not otherwise pose a threat to public safety, Philip told Insider. Babuschkin was arrested at 588 Webster Street, according to a police report log posted last month on the Palo Alto Police Department's website. Musk has also brought on resources including roughly 10,000 graphics processing units to execute his AI plans, Insider previously reported.

☆ Elon Musk says people should be cautious with AI because the tech is 'a danger to the public'
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-19 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Elon Musk called AI a danger to the public during an interview with Tucker Carlson. In an interview on Fox News' "Tucker Carlson Tonight," he said people should be "cautious with AI" and advised that there should be government oversight because the tech is "a danger to the public." "I think we'll have a better chance of advanced AI being beneficial to humanity in that circumstance," he added. It's far from the first time the billionaire has discussed the potential risks of advanced AI. He's previously compared AI with nuclear warheads, told Tesla investors that the tech stresses him out, and criticized OpenAI, a company he cofounded.

☆ Elon Musk said he hasn't talked to his former friend Larry Page in years: 'He got very upset with me about OpenAI'
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-19 | by ( Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Elon Musk said Larry Page hasn't spoken to him in years after they disagreed about AI safety. Musk said Page wanted to create a "digital god" and accused him of being a speciesist. Elon Musk said his longtime friendship with Google cofounder Larry Page ended over a disagreement about AI and that the two men haven't talked in years. The Tesla CEO said Page "got very upset with me about OpenAI" — the company Musk helped found as a competitor to Google's AI efforts. Musk said that he hasn't been able to talk with Page "because he doesn't want to talk to me anymore."

☆ Advanced AI keeps Sundar Pichai up at night and makes Sam Altman a bit scared. Here's why some tech execs are wary of its potential dangers.
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-18 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Here's what tech executives are saying about the potential dangers of advanced AI tech. In a recent interview with Tucker Carlson, Musk said AI had the potential to destroy civilization. Sam AltmanOpenAI CEO Sam Altman has said he's a "little bit afraid" of AI. "And I think it'd be crazy not to be a little bit afraid, and I empathize with people who are a lot afraid." In an earlier interview with ABC News, Altman said that "people should be happy" that his company was "a little bit scared" of the potential of artificial intelligence.

☆ Elon Musk plans 'TruthGPT' A.I. to rival OpenAI, DeepMind
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-18 | by ( Lora Kolodny | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Elon Musk, chief executive officer of Tesla Inc., departs court in San Francisco, California, US, on Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2023. With an agency and industry-accepted rules in place, "I think we'll have a better chance of advanced AI being beneficial to humanity," Musk said. Previously, Musk signed a letter calling for a pause on advanced AI research, which he and others believe can harm society. The new technology would ostensibly compete with similar efforts by Sam Altman-led OpenAI, which was initially funded by Musk, Google's DeepMind and other AI initiatives around the world. Musk added that he is worried that current AI technology is "being trained to be politically correct, which is simply another way of ... saying untruthful things."

☆ Google CEO Sundar Pichai warns society to brace for impact of A.I. acceleration, says ‘it’s not for a company to decide'
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-17 | by ( Jennifer Elias | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Google CEO Sundar Pichai speaks at a panel at the CEO Summit of the Americas hosted by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce on June 09, 2022 in Los Angeles, California. Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said "every product of every company" will be impacted by the quick development of AI, warning that society needs to prepare for technologies like the ones it's already launched. "This is going to impact every product across every company," Pichai said. Pelley viewed other areas with advanced AI products within Google, including DeepMind, where robots were playing soccer, which they learned themselves, as opposed to from humans. Another unit showed robots that recognized items on a countertop and fetched Pelley an apple he asked for.

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