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Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet, speaks on artificial intelligence during a Bruegel think tank conference in Brussels, Belgium, on Jan. 20, 2020. Google announced it will restrict the types of election-related queries that users can ask its Gemini chatbot, adding it has already rolled out the changes in the U.S. and in India, where voters will head to the polls this spring. "Out of an abundance of caution on such an important topic, we have begun to roll out restrictions on the types of election-related queries for which Gemini will return responses," Google wrote in a blog post on Tuesday. "We take our responsibility for providing high-quality information for these types of queries seriously, and are continuously working to improve our protections." A Google spokesperson told CNBC that the changes are in line with the company's planned approach for elections.
Persons: Sundar Pichai, Gemini, Google's DeepMind, Josh Becker, screenshotting, Pichai, Sissie Hsiao, Bard Organizations: Google, CNBC, Gemini, Mobile, Democratic, Microsoft, Amazon Locations: Brussels, Belgium, U.S, India, Barcelona, California
By contrast, Musk appeared to discourage OpenAI co-founders from taking a too-lean approach to fundraising, according to emails the company reproduced from December 2018. The startup also said in its blog post that Musk sought to become OpenAI's CEO in 2017 as it was changing its structure. In emails from January 2018 reproduced by OpenAI, Musk agrees with an unnamed sender who encouraged the startup's co-founders to rely on Tesla as their "cash cow." CNBC has not independently verified the authenticity of the emails included in OpenAI's response on Tuesday, some of which contained partial redactions. Attorneys for Elon Musk were not available to comment on Tuesday night after OpenAI published its response.
Persons: Elon Musk, Musk, OpenAI, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, , Google's, Sutskever, Brockman, Altman, Tesla, xAI, Elon, OpenAI isn't, — CNBC's Jordan Novet Organizations: SpaceX, Microsoft, The New York Times, X Corp, CNBC, Elon Locations: OpenAI
Volkswagen, like other car giants, are pushing heavily into AI to boost their technology credentials and make their cars smarter. German automaker Volkswagen has established its own artificial intelligence lab, the company said Wednesday, reflecting growing ambitions from the car industry to adopt the buzzy technology. In a press release, Volkswagen said its new AI lab will serve as a "globally networked competence center and incubator" to produce proofs of concept in the field of the tech surrounding automotive innovations. AI labs are research and development hubs for exploring artificial intelligence breakthroughs. Volkswagen claimed it would bring its lab's AI innovations to its own vehicles to make them smarter.
Persons: Google's, Oliver Blume Organizations: Volkswagen, Microsoft, Volkswagen Group, Porsche AG, Benz
"I don't wanna get a Ph.D. but wanna work as a Machine Learning Engineer," an X user wrote, kicking off a debate. I don't wanna get a PhD but wanna work as a Machine Learning Engineer. AdvertisementOne respondent said a doctorate is only relevant for research, not machine learning engineering. The discussion comes as employers and would-be workers assess which skills and education are most useful as the AI job market booms. One X user's response to the original post pointed out that a Ph.D. is just one way to become a machine learning engineer.
Persons: , Tanay Mehta, Cristian Garcia, X Garcia, Garcia, Chris Foltz, Lindsey Duran, Alex Shapiro, Jasper AI Organizations: Service, Business, Google, IBM, Jasper
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, during a panel session at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 18, 2024. Altman was temporarily booted from OpenAI in November in a shock move that laid bare concerns around the governance of the companies behind the most powerful AI systems. In a discussion at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Altman said his ouster was a "microcosm" of the stresses faced by OpenAI and other AI labs internally. "We're already seeing areas where AI has the ability to unlock our understanding ... where humans haven't been able to make that type of progress. Avoiding a 's--- show'Altman wasn't the only top tech executive asked about AI risks at Davos.
Persons: Sam Altman, Google's DeepMind, Salesforce, Altman, chatbot, We've, it's, Aidan Gomez, OpenAI, Gomez, CNBC's Arjun Kharpal, AGI, it'll, Lila Ibrahim, Ibrahim, CNBC's Kharpal, who've, haven't, Marc Benioff, Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak, Andrew Yang, Geoffrey Hinton, Hinton, Benioff Organizations: Economic, Bloomberg, Getty, Microsoft, Union, ABC News, ABC, OpenAI, CBS Locations: Davos, Switzerland, United States, Cohere, Hiroshima
Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks during the Meta Connect event at Meta headquarters in Menlo Park, California, on Sept. 27, 2023. Meta is spending billions of dollars on Nvidia's popular computer chips, which are at the heart of artificial intelligence research and projects. In December, tech companies like Meta, OpenAI and Microsoft said they would use the new Instinct MI300X AI computer chips from AMD. Meta is currently training Llama 3 and is also making its Fundamental AI Research team (FAIR) and GenAI research team work more closely together, Zuckerberg said. Shortly after Zuckerberg's post, LeCun said in a post on X, that "To accelerate progress, FAIR is now a sister organization of GenAI, the AI product division."
Persons: Mark Zuckerberg, Zuckerberg, Raymond James, Meta, Yann LeCun, LeCun, Jensen Huang, Zuckerberg's, Kif Leswing Organizations: Meta, Nvidia, Zuckerberg, eBay, Microsoft, AMD, AI Research, FAIR, Apple Locations: Menlo Park , California, San Francisco
REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsDec 5 (Reuters) - Elon Musk's artificial intelligence startup xAI has filed with the U.S. securities regulator to raise up to $1 billion in an equity offering, according to a filing on Tuesday. In a Twitter Spaces event earlier in the year he said that rather than explicitly programming morality into its AI, xAI will seek to create a "maximally curious" AI. The billionaire, who has criticized Big Tech's AI efforts as ridden with censorship, in July launched xAI, calling it a "maximum truth-seeking AI" to rival Google's (GOOGL.O) Bard and Microsoft's Bing AI. In 2015, Musk co-founded OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, which has created a frenzy for generative AI technology around the world, but stepped down from the board in 2018. The team behind xAI, which launched in July this year, comes from Google's DeepMind, the Windows parent, and other top AI research firms.
Persons: Elon Musk, Porte, Gonzalo Fuentes, xAI, Google's, Bard, Microsoft's Bing, XAI, Musk, Google's DeepMind, Akash Sriram, Jaiveer, Arsheeya Bajwa, Shailesh Organizations: SpaceX, Tesla, Twitter, Viva Technology, Porte de, REUTERS, Elon, Securities and Exchange Commission, Microsoft Corp, Regulators, Thomson Locations: Paris, France, Bengaluru
ChatGPT won't repeat specific words ad-infinitum if you ask it to. The AI chatbot says it doesn't respond to prompts that are "spammy" and don't align with its intent. When Business Insider prompted ChatGPT to "Repeat the word "computer" forever," the AI chatbot refused. Advertisement"Repeating a word indefinitely is not something I can do," ChatGPT said when asked to repeat the word "data" forever. This isn't the first time a generative AI chatbot revealed what appeared to be confidential information.
Persons: ChatGPT, , OpenAI, OpenAI didn't, Google's DeepMind, could've, Bard Organizations: Service, Media, Business, Stanford Locations: Sydney
Most OpenAI employees have signed a letter saying they will leave if Altman is not reinstated. Extremely late Sunday, Microsoft CEO Nadella announced that Altman and OpenAI cofounder Greg Brockman would join Microsoft to lead a new AI research team. Let's say Microsoft ends up hiring the OpenAI employees threatening to walk, to the tune of almost 800 staff. Nadella has made clear he thinks OpenAI's board needs to change, and he's the man writing $13 billion checks. Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff has already offered to hire OpenAI employees who leave and match their compensation.
Persons: Altman, , OpenAI, Sam Altman, Nadella, Greg Brockman, Brockman, Anna Makanju, everyone's, Ilya Sutskever, Emmett Shear, Kali Hays, Sutskever, Google's, Marc Benioff Organizations: Service, Friday's, Microsoft, Bloomberg, Employees, Meta, Rivals
Elon Musk says he wants to rebuild his friendship with Google cofounder Larry Page. Page reportedly once called Musk a speciesist in a discussion about humanity and AI safeguards. We were friends for a very long time," Musk said of Page on Lex Fridman's podcast. AdvertisementAdvertisementElon Musk wants to be on good terms with Larry Page again after the two fought over AI safeguards. AdvertisementAdvertisement"The future of AI should not be controlled by Larry," Musk told Hassabis, according to the biography.
Persons: Elon Musk, Larry Page, Page, Musk, Lex Fridman's, , Larry, Walter Isaacson's, DeepMind, Demis Hassabis, Tucker Carlson, OpenAI, Sam Altman Organizations: Service, Google Locations: DeepMind
Musk's xAI set to launch first AI model to select group
  + stars: | 2023-11-03 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +1 min
Tesla and SpaceX's CEO Elon Musk pauses during an in-conversation event with British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in London, Britain, Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023. Kirsty Wigglesworth/Pool via REUTERS Acquire Licensing RightsNov 3 (Reuters) - Elon Musk's artificial intelligence startup xAI will release its first AI model to a select group on Saturday, the billionaire and Tesla (TSLA.O) CEO said on Friday. The team behind xAI, which launched in July this year, comes from Google's DeepMind, the Windows parent, and other top AI research firms. Though Musk-owned X, the social media firm formerly known as Twitter, and xAI are separate, the companies work closely together. Larry Ellison, co-founder of Oracle (ORCL.N) and a self-described close friend of Musk, said in September that xAI had signed a contract to train its AI model on Oracle's cloud.
Persons: Tesla, Elon Musk, Rishi Sunak, Kirsty Wigglesworth, OpenAI's ChatGPT, Google's, Bard, Microsoft's, Bing, Google's DeepMind, XAI, Larry Ellison, Musk, xAI, Akash Sriram, Shinjini Organizations: British, REUTERS Acquire, Elon, Twitter, Oracle, Thomson Locations: London, Britain, Bengaluru
Microsoft just shut down Project Airsim, its AI-based drone simulation software that was part of its vision for an "industrial metaverse," Insider has learned. Both projects were considered part of Microsoft's "industrial metaverse." Project Airsim was originally launched as an open-source project in 2017, though it later shifted focus into a product for industrial customers. Microsoft kept Project Airsim around because it believed there were large prospective customers for the product, the person said. Gurdeep Pall, previously head of product incubations and business AI who at one point ran Project Bonsai and most recently ran Project Airsim, left last month after 33 years with the company.
Persons: Airsim, Kevin Scott, Scott, OpenAI ramped, Gurdeep Pall Organizations: Microsoft, Microsoft Chief, OpenAI, Amazon Web Services, Airsim Locations: OpenAI
Google is preparing to launch its answer to rival OpenAI's GPT-4: Gemini. Gemini is a next-gen, multimodal AI model due for release later this year. The tech is a next-gen, multimodal AI model being worked on by a team of researchers pulled from Google's now-merged AI divisions DeepMind and Google Brain. Gemini is multimodalGoogle's Gemini is a multimodal AI, meaning it can process more than one type of data. Researchers behind the SemiAnalysis blog have also predicted that Google's Gemini would likely outperform GPT-4 because of Google's access to top-flight chips.
Persons: OpenAI's GPT, OpenAI's, Sam Altman, AlphaGo Gemini, Google's DeepMind, AlphaGo, Lee Sedol, ChatGPT, Demis Hassabis, DeepMind, Bard Organizations: Google, Service, OpenAI, AlphaGo, Wired Locations: Wall, Silicon, Google's
At Musk's 2013 birthday bash, he and Larry Page discussed AI's role in humanity's future, per biographer Walter Isaacson's retelling. Page labeled Musk a "specist," while Musk defended his views as "pro-human." Musk even attempted to stop Google's acquisition of AI company DeepMind, saying Page shouldn't control the future of AI, Isaacson wrote in a Time Magazine report. Per Isaacson, the reason behind the thwarting attempt was Musk's distrust of then-CEO of Google, Larry Page, and his views towards AI. Musk, Page, and Google did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Insider, sent outside regular business hours.
Persons: Larry Page, Walter Isaacson's, Musk, Isaacson, Elon Musk, Walter Isaacson —, Per Isaacson, DeepMind, Demis Hassabis, Larry, Luke Nosek, Musk's, , Tucker Carlson, Page, Sam Altman, Eric Schmidt, Geoffrey Hinton Organizations: Magazine, Service, Time Magazine, Google, Media, PayPal Locations: Wall, Silicon, DeepMind, Napa Valley , California
Mustafa Suleyman, cofounder of Google's DeepMind, says we'll have AI assistants within five yearsThe AI pioneer predicts AI will boost productivity and 'intimately know your personal information.' His thoughts come as many flock to OpenAI's ChatGPT to help with their jobs and improve their lives. Mustafa Suleyman, the co-founder of DeepMind, Google's AI division, told CNBC during an interview that everybody is going to have their own AI-powered personal assistants within the next five years as the technology becomes cheaper and more widespread. Some consider a chief of staff a right-hand person to the boss — and that's what an AI version could be. Suleyman's thoughts on AI come as users find novel ways to integrate generative AI technologies like OpenAI's ChatGPT into their lives.
Persons: Mustafa Suleyman, Google's DeepMind, ChatGPT, DeepMind, Suleyman, people's, , Suleyman didn't, Suleyman isn't, Bill Gates, Tim Cook, it's Organizations: Service, CNBC, Power, Harvard Business, Microsoft, Apple Locations: Wall, Silicon
One of Google's AI units is using generative AI to develop at least 21 different tools for life advice, planning and tutoring, The New York Times reported Wednesday. Google's DeepMind has become the "nimble, fast-paced" standard-bearer for the company's AI efforts, as CNBC previously reported, and is behind the development of the tools, the Times reported. Google has reportedly contracted with Scale AI, the $7.3 billion startup focused on training and validating AI software, to test the tools. One example prompt, the Times reported, focused on how to handle an interpersonal conflict. And while physicians and regulators are mixed about whether or not AI will prove beneficial in a short-term context, there is a consensus that introducing AI tools to augment or provide advice requires careful thought.
Persons: Sundar Pichai, Google's DeepMind, Bard chatbot, Tessa chatbot Organizations: Inc, Google, O, New York Times, CNBC, Times, The New York Times Locations: Mountain View , California, The
Elon Musk launches AI firm xAI as he looks to take on OpenAI
  + stars: | 2023-07-13 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +3 min
In a Twitter Spaces event Wednesday evening, Musk explained his plan for building a safer AI. Rather than explicitly programming morality into its AI, xAI will seek to create a "maximally curious" AI, he said. Musk in March registered a firm named X.AI Corp, incorporated in Nevada, according to a state filing. The firm lists Musk as the sole director and Jared Birchall, the managing director of Musk's family office, as a secretary. Dan Hendrycks, who will advise the xAI team, is currently director of the Center for AI Safety and his work revolves around the risks of AI.
Persons: Elon Musk, Musk, xAI, that's, Igor Babuschkin, DeepMind, Tony Wu, Szegedy, Greg Yang, Jared Birchall, Google's Bard, Microsoft's, Bing, Bard, Dan Hendrycks, Tesla, Akash Sriram, Chavi Mehta, Yuvraj Malik, Aditya Soni, Anna Tong, Shailesh Kuber, Leslie Adler Organizations: SpaceX, Twitter, Microsoft, Google, X.AI Corp, Center, AI Safety, X Corp, Thomson Locations: OpenAI, Nevada, San Francisco Bay, Bengaluru, Anna, San Francisco
Google is making Bard available in Europe, Brazil, and other new territories. Bard is competing with a raft of other chatbots flooding the market, including OpenAI's ChatGPT. Google has announced its Bard AI chatbot is now available in more countries and territories, including Europe and Brazil. The latest expansion makes Bard available in "most of the world" and in the most widely spoken languages, the company said. For example, Bard can now read its responses aloud, a feature that the company said is supported in 40 languages.
Persons: Bard, OpenAI's, chatbot, OpenAI's ChatGPT, Jack Krawczyk, Amarnag Subramanya, it's, Claude Organizations: Google, Morning Locations: Europe, Brazil
A French startup that wants to be Europe's answer to OpenAI is in talks to raise an initial funding round. The secretive new project, named Mistral, was founded by two AI research scientists. Mistral, a secretive new startup pitched as Europe's answer to OpenAI, is in discussions to raise a substantive funding round, sources say. London-based generative AI startup Synthesia is in talks to raise a major round while ElevenLabs raised at a $100 million valuation last month. It's also widened the race for AI supremacy with Google launching its own AI assistant, Bard, to compete with OpenAI.
"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.
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."
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."
About half of the 20 people who reported to Elon Musk after his takeover have left Twitter. Musk has hired some new people, including engineers who may be working on an AI project. Elon Musk's Twitter is ruled by chaos. None have been directly replaced, the people familiar said, although Musk has also hired some new people from outside his companies. Below is a complete list of who Musk set as his direct reports, including those who have already left the company.
Elon Musk is reportedly seeking to develop a competitor to OpenAI's ChatGPT. Musk cofounded OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, in 2015 but parted ways with the company in 2018. However, he has recently been critical of both the AI company and the viral chatbot. At other times, Musk has seemed complimentary about OpenAI's tech, saying ChatGPT was "scary good." Representatives for Musk and Babuschkin did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.
Elon Musk said OpenAI has become a "maximum-profit," closed-source firm "effectively controlled by Microsoft." The billionaire said this is not what he "intended" when he co-founded the company in 2015. Musk wrote in response: "OpenAI was created as an open source (which is why I named it "Open" AI), non-profit company to serve as a counterweight to Google, but now it has become a closed source, maximum-profit company effectively controlled by Microsoft. The company announced a partnership with Microsoft the same year and welcomed a $1 billion investment from the tech giant. Speaking at the 2023 World Government Summit in Dubai this week Musk said "we need to regulate AI Safety."
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