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OpenAI removed a ChatGPT voice that sounded like Scarlett Johansson after she lawyered up. AdvertisementOpenAI made an enemy of Scarlett Johansson when it launched a ChatGPT voice that sounds a lot like her. The superstar could be a foe that Sam Altman's AI company regrets tangling with. The company had asked her to collaborate on a voice product, she said — but she turned it down. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers.
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Read previewOpenAI's biggest critics have long held the view that Sam Altman's success has been built on an "ask forgiveness, not permission" strategy that could come back to haunt him. The ChatGPT maker has been embroiled in fresh controversy since Monday after Scarlett Johansson lashed out at the company over a new voice feature for its chatbot. her — Sam Altman (@sama) May 13, 2024OpenAI has responded to the criticism by pulling the Sky voice entirely. AdvertisementThough Johansson and Pichai have not filed lawsuits against OpenAI, the "ask forgiveness, not permission" strategy that critics accuse the company of has already landed it in legal hot water. Creators who suspect their work has been used to train OpenAI without their permission will probably wonder why they weren't offered an agreement in the first place.
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download the appSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. Read previewElon Musk has waded into the dispute between Sam Altman and Scarlett Johansson. Musk has also started his own AI company, xAI, and launched a ChatGPT rival called Grok. AdvertisementSam Altman played into the speculation by posting the word "Her" on X, but OpenAI executives denied the likeness was intentional. However, on Monday, the company abruptly announced that "Sky," the voice used in the GPT-4o demo, would be temporarily removed.
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Read previewOpenAI's fight with Scarlett Johansson isn't just a PR disaster (and a big one at that). Most of all, it shows there's just really, really bad judgment going on at the highest levels of Sam Altman's company. But everyone immediately noticed that the "Sky" voice that ended up on ChatGPT reminded them of ScarJo. And then Sam Altman, in one of the greatest self-own moves of the generative AI era, tweeted out "her" during the product demo last week. The OpenAI team used a Scarlett Johansson sound-alike voice — also completely avoidable.
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A top OpenAI executive researching safety quit on Tuesday. Adding that Sam Altman's company was prioritizing "shiny products" over safety. AdvertisementA former top safety executive at OpenAI is laying it all out. "Over the past years, safety culture and processes have taken a backseat to shiny products," Leike wrote in a lengthy thread on X on Friday. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers.
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Apple looks kind of ridiculous right now
  + stars: | 2024-05-15 | by ( Jordan Hart | ) 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. Apple, though, has kept pretty quiet about its own AI ambitions so far — and it's increasingly obvious. "The buzz around AI, and specifically GenAI, has been so deafening that Apple is noticeable by omission," Dipanjan Chatterjee, vice president and principal analyst at Forrester, told Business Insider. Still, if the rumors about OpenAI or Gemini iPhone integration are true, this week's "strong announcements actually would bode well for Apple," William Kerwin, an analyst at Morningstar, said. AdvertisementThe analyst told BI that the new iPad rollout is simply an "appetizer to the real meat and potatoes" of Apple's AI strategy, expected to be announced at the WWDC in June.
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Sam Altman's company is trying to poach Googlers for a ChatGPT search engine, per the report. The Verge reported that the company behind ChatGPT has been trying to poach Googlers to work on its team developing a search engine for the chatbot. In February, The Information reported that OpenAI was developing a web search feature that could put the company into more direct competition with Google Search. AdvertisementGoogle's future plans in the AI field include large investments and a generative AI search engine. Big Tech is engaged in an intense battle for top AI talent as rival companies rush to launch similar AI-powered products.
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Read previewMicrosoft's chief technology officer said partnering with OpenAI was "basically a bet" on Sam Altman's company. Kevin Scott gave insight into his decision-making that led to Microsoft's alliance with OpenAI in 2019 on an episode of Reid Hoffman's podcast "Possible" last week. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. It was sent just weeks before Microsoft announced its $1 billion investment in OpenAI and subsequent partnership. Microsoft didn't immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider, sent outside normal working hours.
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman described the ultimate AI app to the MIT Technology Review. Altman's vision is that AI will take on real-world tasks — not just function as a chatbot. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . Related storiesThe bottom line is that Altman wants AI to function as more than just a chatbot. Altman didn't specify when this tool will be available and how advanced AI must be to support it.
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Mark Zuckerberg just dropped Meta's new AI models. Bt what Llama 3 does not do is beat OpenAI's GPT-4. AdvertisementPerhaps the most important detail was that Meta's open-source models will soon be on par with their closed-source counterparts. For open-source AI developers, that'll be a huge deal. The AI models they were working on looked pretty rudimentary as recently as last year as they struggled to complete sentences without repeating themselves.
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Mistral's CEO Arthur Mensch said the obsession with creating general AI is about "creating God." The AI CEO doesn't believe Elon Musk and Sam Altman's predictions that AI will surpass human intelligence. AdvertisementMistral's founder and CEO Arthur Mensch doesn't believe in god — and therefore, he doesn't believe in artificial general intelligence. Artificial general intelligence, also referred to as AGI, is a level of AI that will outperform humans. Mensch said he felt uncomfortable with Silicon Valley's religious fascination with general AI.
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Sam Altman's plans for the next act of AI are getting more complex. The OpenAI CEO hopes to solve AI's chip shortage, energy demands and data needs. AdvertisementSam Altman's plans to bring the artificial intelligence industry into a new era are getting more complex by the day. That eye-watering sum gave a small insight into Altman's plans. Taken together, then, it looks like Altman is trying to mastermind a strategy to develop next-generation AI that involves the energy, chips and data sectors.
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download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . On the agenda today:AdvertisementBut first: The effects of the fatal bridge collapse in Baltimore will be felt for months. ET Tuesday, the 984-ft long container ship Dali crashed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, bringing it down. AdvertisementNow, China is in a similar situaJtion as Japan once was, as it stares down a property market collapse. But Japan's recovery won't be easy to replicate for China, which has resisted stimulus packages and faces a difficult trade market.
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Sam Altman's looking to win over movie studios with Sora, OpenAI's new video-generating tool. He recently held a series of meetings with Hollywood executives, the Financial Times reported. NEW LOOK Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. AdvertisementSam Altman seems to be trying to convince Hollywood executives that his latest AI tool won't destroy the movie business. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers.
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Inside the AI talent-hiring frenzy
  + stars: | 2024-03-27 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +6 min
download the appSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. Read previewThe fight to hire the best AI talent is heating up as companies large and small compete in the race to create the best products in the booming sector. Last week, Mustafa Suleyman, the cofounder of Google's DeepMind, left his startup Inflection AI to lead tech giant Microsoft's consumer AI division as CEO. "AI talents are some of the most highly compensated in today's job market," Alex Libre, the cofounder and principal recruiter of Einstellen Talent, a service that matches job candidates with generative AI startups, told BI. Related stories"There is undoubtedly a shortage in AI talent," Libre says.
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Sam Altman's act may be wearing thin
  + stars: | 2024-03-26 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +7 min
download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . In today's big story, we're looking into how some in Silicon Valley are starting to sour on OpenAI's Sam Altman . AdvertisementFrom hardball tactics when raising funds to relentless self-mythologizing about his role in the future of tech, Altman's act is wearing thin on some . Even VCs uninterested in AI deals are quickly becoming servants to Altman's AI empire. Big market, fall hard.
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Called Retro Biosciences, the startup's goal is simple yet supremely ambitious: Add 10 healthy, enjoyable years onto the back end of our lifetimes. But Retro Biosciences actually fits quite neatly into Altman's futuristic worldview. Retro BiosciencesRetro Biosciences sits about 30 miles south of OpenAI's San Francisco headquarters, where ChatGPT was hatched. Joe Betts-LaCroix is the CEO of Retro Biosciences. There are things we already know work super well to improve human longevity, like exercise, diet, faith, and social support.
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Read previewSam Altman is warring with Elon Musk. Musk told Lemon he takes a small amount of ketamine "once every other week" and that he uses the drug "when my brain chemistry sometimes goes super negative." Related stories"So from investors' standpoint, if there is something I'm taking, I should keep taking it," Musk told Lemon. The billionaire told Lemon that he thinks people shouldn't make racism "a constant subject" and that they should "move on" from the topic altogether. "You're upsetting me because the way you phrase your questions is not cogent," Musk told Lemon.
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Menlo Ventures has been an early backer of AI powerhouses including security startup Abnormal, LLM developer Anthropic, and vector database Pinecone. "AI itself is not new, I think it's just how mainstream it's become," Matt Murphy, a Menlo Ventures partner who invests in SaaS and robotics startups, told Business Insider in an interview. AI's "picks and shovels"Murphy and fellow Menlo Ventures partner Tim Tully say that 2024 will be a big year for the "picks and shovels" of AI. There's room in the game for more LLMsSam Altman's OpenAI has been at the forefront of the generative AI revolution. Other vector database startups including Chorma and Weaviate have also raised millions from VCs.
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Apple and Google are reportedly in talks to integrate Google's Gemini into the iPhone. The deal, if finalized, would be a blow to Google's competitors like Elon Musk's xAI and Sam Altman's OpenAI. AdvertisementApple and Google are in talks to integrate Google's AI model Gemini into the iPhone, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reported on Monday. The new Gemini-powered features could be introduced to iPhones this year, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the negotiations. Representatives for Apple and Google declined to comment on the talks when contacted by Bloomberg.
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Elon Musk filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman, years after he left the startup. "Elon Musk is the best PR stuntsman I've ever seen," Kyle Arteaga, the CEO of the national tech PR company, The Bulleit Group, said. Earlier this month, Altman told veteran tech reporter Kara Swisher that Musk was his "absolute hero" growing up. AdvertisementDuring the interview, Swisher told Altman she thought Musk's lawsuit was "nonsense." Representatives for Musk, Altman, and OpenAI did not immediately respond to a requests for comment by Business Insider.
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On the agenda today:This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post via Getty ImagesThis week's dispatchData center boomAmerica's biggest warehouse owner is getting in on the data center game. Data centers are going up across rural America, impacting communities and placing strains on utilities. Unlike other businesses, venture firms don't suddenly go out of business. Such a dream will require more money than has ever been spent on any business venture in history.
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download the appSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. The Open AI probe was launched in December, a few weeks after the board announced Altman's shocking departure and reinstatement. The company formed a special committee that hired WilmerHale to conduct a probe of the events surrounding Altman's sudden firing. AdvertisementDetails of Altman's strained relationship with OpenAI's former board members and employees were known days after the CEO was booted from the company. AdvertisementThe latest Times report from Thursday revealed that Mira Murati, OpenAI's chief technology officer, was instrumental in Sam Altman's ousting.
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OpenAI announced Friday that it was adding three women to its board of directors. CEO Sam Altman is also rejoining the board nearly five months after he was abruptly forced out. The company has pledged to improve its governing structure in the aftermath of the ouster and reinstatement. A Thursday report from The New York Times suggested OpenAI chief technology officer Mira Murati raised concerns about Altman's leadership with board members prior to his removal. The three women join current OpenAI board members Adam D'Angelo, Larry Summers, and Bret Taylor, as well as Altman.
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Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, attends the 54th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 18, 2024. OpenAI on Friday announced its new board and the wrap-up of an internal investigation by U.S. law firm WilmerHale into the events leading up to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's ouster. Sam Altman will also rejoin OpenAI's board. "We have unanimously concluded that Sam and Greg are the right leaders for OpenAI," Bret Taylor, chair of OpenAI's board, said in a release. Since then, OpenAI has announced new board members, including former Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor and former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers.
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