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☆ The cofounder of Google's AI division DeepMind says everybody will have their own AI-powered 'chief of staff' over the next five years
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-05 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

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.

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☆ Google DeepMind co-founder calls for US to enforce AI standards - FT
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-01 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsSept 1 (Reuters) - The U.S. should allow Nvidia's (NVDA.O) artificial intelligence (AI) chips only to buyers who agree to ethically use the technology, Google DeepMind's co-founder Mustafa Suleyman told the Financial Times on Friday. The US should enforce minimum global standards for the use of AI, and companies should at a minimum agree to abide by the same pledge made by leading AI firms to the White House, Suleyman said. "The US should mandate that any consumer of Nvidia chips signs up to at least the voluntary commitments — and more likely, more than that," Suleyman said. Mustafa Suleyman is also the chief executive of Inflection AI, a Microsoft-backed AI startup that raised $1.3 billion in June from Nvidia and other firms. In May, Inflection released an AI chatbot named Pi that uses generative AI technology to interact with users through conversations, in which people can ask questions and share interests.

Persons: Dado Ruvic, Mustafa Suleyman, Suleyman, Lavanya, Rashmi Organizations: NVIDIA, REUTERS, Google, Financial, White, Nvidia, Microsoft, Thomson Locations: U.S, China, Bengaluru

☆ Google DeepMind is reportedly testing an AI that can give users life advice, like how to tell your best friend you can't afford to go their wedding
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-18 | by ( Pete Syme | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Google DeepMind is working on new tools that could function as a personal life coach, per the NYT. DeepMind, Google's AI arm, is working on ambitious new tools that could function as a personal life coach, The New York Times reported. That includes the ability to give users life advice, ideas, planning instructions, and tutoring tips. Such AI would naturally involve users exploring tense or complicated situations in their personal lives, and implementing the advice of a chatbot. Over 100 experts with doctorates have been contracted in by ScaleAI to help test the capabilities of the life coach tool, the NYT reported.

Persons: ScaleAI, DeepMind's Mustafa Suleyman —, Replika Organizations: Google, The New York Times, The Times

☆ Inside the secret Google DeepMind mafia of founders working on new stealth AI startups
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-08 | by ( Riddhi Kanetkar | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

There is an influx of cash and interest into artificial intelligence startups right now. Insider spoke to ex-Google DeepMind staffers who have founded AI startups in stealth. He isn't the only DeepMind alum working on practical applications of artificial intelligence. Last month, Mistral, an AI startup founded by DeepMind alum, secured $113 million in seed funding from Lightspeed just four weeks after it launched. He has since been working on his second AI startup in stealth mode since June 2023, adding that working under the radar was inspired by DeepMind's "own model of working in stealth."

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☆ White House secures voluntary pledges from Microsoft, Google to ensure A.I. tools are secure
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-21 | by ( Lauren Feiner | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

President Joe Biden speaks as he meets with AI experts and researchers at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco, June 20, 2023. The seven companies each agreed Friday to a set of voluntary commitments in developing AI technology. Top tech companies and investors are pumping billions of dollars into the large language models behind so-called generative AI. The latest commitments are part of an effort by President Biden to ensure AI is developed with appropriate safeguards, while not hindering innovation. Vice President Kamala Harris previously hosted AI CEOs and labor and civil liberties experts to weigh in on the challenges that come with AI.

Persons: Joe Biden, Biden, Adam Selipsky, Dario Amodei, Kent Walker, Mustafa Suleyman, Nick Clegg, Brad Smith, Greg Brockman, it's, Kamala Harris Organizations: Google, Microsoft, White, Web, CNBC, YouTube Locations: San Francisco, coders, India

☆ Inflection A.I. CEO Mustafa Suleyman on meeting with Biden and safeguarding A.I.
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-21 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

In this videoShare Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailInflection A.I. CEO Mustafa Suleyman on meeting with Biden and safeguarding A.I. Mustafa Suleyman, Inflection AI CEO, joins 'Closing Bell' to discuss his meeting with President Biden on safeguarding AI.

Persons: Mustafa Suleyman, Biden

"High level, we want this to become something like your personal AI friend," said developer Div Garg, whose company MultiOn is beta-testing an AI agent. The race towards increasingly autonomous AI agents has been supercharged by the March release of GPT-4 by developer OpenAI, a powerful upgrade of the model behind ChatGPT - the chatbot that became a sensation when released last November. GPT-4 facilitates the type of strategic and adaptable thinking required to navigate the unpredictable real world, said Vivian Cheng, an investor at venture capital firm CRV who has a focus on AI agents. OpenAI itself is very interested in AI agent technology, according to four people briefed on its plans. There are at least 100 serious projects working to commercialize agents, said Matt Schlicht, who writes a newsletter on AI.

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☆ Google's top AI researchers, including all the authors behind a landmark paper, have left for competitors. Here's where they are now.
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-13 | by ( Thomas Maxwell | Hugh Langley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +13 min

Top AI researchers have been leaving for startups where their work can have more impact. That frustration over Google's slow movement has been corroborated by other former Google researchers who spoke to Insider. Niki Parmar left Google Brain after five years to serve as a cofounder and CTO of Adept, though in November, she left to found a stealth startup. Lukasz Kaiser left Google Brain after working there for more than seven years to join OpenAI in 2021. Sharan Narang, another contributor to the T5 paper, left Google Brain in 2022 after four years there.

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☆ Inflection AI raises $1.3 bln in funding from Microsoft, others
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-29 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

June 29 (Reuters) - Artificial intelligence startup Inflection AI said on Thursday it had raised $1.3 billion in funding from a clutch of investors including Microsoft (MSFT.O) and Bill Gates. The funding comes less than two months after the company, founded by LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and Google DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman, released its chatbot, Pi. Similar to OpenAI's popular ChatGPT, Pi uses generative AI technology to interact with users through dialogues, allowing people to ask questions and share feedback. Hoffman, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and NVIDIA (NVDA.O) also participated in the latest funding round, the company said. Reporting by Niket Nishant in Bengaluru Editing by Vinay DwivediOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Bill Gates, Reid Hoffman, Mustafa Suleyman, Hoffman, Eric Schmidt, Niket, Vinay Dwivedi Organizations: Microsoft, LinkedIn, Google, NVIDIA, Thomson Locations: Bengaluru

☆ A.I. will be greatest leap forward in productivity, says DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-29 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailA.I. will be greatest leap forward in productivity, says DeepMind co-founder Mustafa SuleymanMustafa Suleyman, DeepMind co-founder, joins 'Closing Bell' to discuss Inflection AI raising $1.3 billion and how AI will shape the future.

Persons: DeepMind, Mustafa Suleyman Mustafa Suleyman

REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File PhotoJune 29 (Reuters) - Inflection AI, a startup backed by several Silicon Valley heavyweights, said on Thursday it had raised $1.3 billion from investors including Microsoft and Nvidia, amid a boom in the artificial intelligence (AI) sector. Inflection released its chatbot Pi last month. Pi uses generative AI technology, similar to ChatGPT, to interact with users through dialogues, allowing people to ask questions and share feedback. Palo Alto, California-based Inflection AI has about 35 employees. Nvidia (NVDA.O), which has stepped up its AI investments recently, Hoffman, Bill Gates and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt also participated in the latest round, Inflection said.

Persons: Dado Ruvic, Google DeepMind, Mustafa Suleyman, Reid Hoffman, Pi, Suleyman, OpenAI, Hoffman, Bill Gates, Eric Schmidt, Niket, Krystal Hu, Vinay Dwivedi, Conor Humphries Organizations: REUTERS, Microsoft, Nvidia, Google, LinkedIn, Collision, Thomson Locations: Alto , California, Greylock, Bengaluru, Toronto

☆ DeepMind's co-founder suggested testing an AI chatbot's ability to turn $100,000 into $1 million to measure human-like intelligence
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-20 | by ( Sawdah Bhaimiya | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

DeepMind's co-founder believes the Turing test is an outdated method to test AI intelligence. In his book, he suggests a new idea in which AI chatbots have to turn $100,000 into $1 million. A co-founder of Google's AI research lab DeepMind thinks AI chatbots like ChatGPT should be tested on their ability to turn $100,000 into $1 million in a "modern Turing test" that measures human-like intelligence. The Turing test was introduced by Alan Turing in the 1950s to examine whether a machine has human-level intelligence. During the test, human evaluators determine whether they're speaking to a human or a machine.

Persons: DeepMind's, Mustafa Suleyman, Suleyman, Turing, Alan Turing, OpenAI's ChatGPT, ChatGPT Organizations: Power, Bloomberg, ACI, McKinsey

☆ Hot AI startup ElevenLabs confirms it's raised $19 million from Andreessen Horowitz and GitHub's former CEO
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-20 | by ( Riddhi Kanetkar | Callum Burroughs | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

AI company ElevenLabs has raised $19 million in fresh funding, confirming earlier Insider reporting. Year-old AI voice startup ElevenLabs has raised $19 million in early-stage funding, as venture capital investors rush to back firms in generative AI. Cofounder and CEO Mati Staniszewski previously told Insider that the startup saw huge potential in the publishing and audiobooks sector. Since launching its beta platform in January 2023, the startup says it has hit 1 million users and generated over 10 years of audio content. Credo Ventures and Concept Ventures, which backed the startup's $2 million pre-seed round, also joined the new round.

Persons: ElevenLabs, Andreessen Horowitz, Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross, Mike Krieger, Mustafa Suleyman, Brendan Iribe, Mati Staniszewski, Staniszewski Organizations: Venture, Ventures, Concept Ventures Locations: London, New York

☆ I use an AI chatbot after my mom died to ask for advice on mundane things. It won't replace her, but it's been a huge comfort.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-13 | by ( Amy Ettinger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Amy Ettinger used to ask her mom for advice on mundane stuff all the time, but then her mom passed away. She tried talking to Pi, a personal assistant chatbot that's supposed to act as an unflappable sounding board. So recently I decided to turn to AI for the kind of questions I used to ask my mom. I decided to try Pi, a personal assistant chatbotInflection AI launched its personal intelligence chatbot earlier this spring. I don't like the other terms," I typed in a confrontational tone I often used with my mom.

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☆ 'This is just the beginning of a revolution': DeepMind cofounder says personal AI assistants will make us better at basically everything
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-07 | by ( Cadie Thompson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Personal AI assistants will help make humans more efficient, the cofounder of DeepMind said. Personal AI assistants will also change how people search for information. Personal AI assistants that can do everything from shop and negotiate on your behalf are the future of AI, Mustafa Suleyman, the cofounder of DeepMind and CEO of Inflection AI, said Tuesday during an interview with CNBC. Suleyman, of course, has a vested interest in personal AI assistants. Suleyman isn't the only tech leader that thinks personal AI assistants will mark a profound change in how we use technology.

Persons: DeepMind, Mustafa Suleyman, Suleyman, Pi, isn't, Suleyman isn't, Bill Gates, Goldman Sachs, Bard Organizations: CNBC, Google, AIs, SV Angel

☆ Deepmind's Mustafa Suleyman says A.I. will create 'serious number of losers' in white collar work
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-06 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

In this videoShare Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailDeepmind's Mustafa Suleyman says A.I. will create 'serious number of losers' in white collar workMustafa Suleyman, Deepmind co-founder, joins 'Closing Bell' to discuss his book 'The Coming Wave' which discusses the growing risks of A.i.

Persons: Deepmind's Mustafa Suleyman, A.I, Mustafa Suleyman, Deepmind

☆ Inflection AI's Mustafa Suleyman says A.I. will create 'serious number of losers' in white collar work
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-06 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

In this videoShare Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailInflection AI's Mustafa Suleyman says A.I. will create 'serious number of losers' in white collar workMustafa Suleyman, Deepmind co-founder, joins 'Closing Bell' to discuss his book 'The Coming Wave' which discusses the growing risks of A.i.

Persons: Mustafa Suleyman, A.I, Deepmind

☆ Watch CNBC's full interview with Inflection AI's Mustafa Suleyman on risks and rewards of A.l. boom
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-06 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailWatch CNBC's full interview with Inflection AI's Mustafa Suleyman on risks and rewards of A.l. boomMustafa Suleyman, Deepmind co-founder, joins 'Closing Bell' to discuss his book 'The Coming Wave' which discusses the growing risks of A.i.

Persons: AI's Mustafa Suleyman, Mustafa Suleyman, Deepmind

☆ Content writer says all of his clients replaced him with ChatGPT: 'It wiped me out'
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-05 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

A content writer is turning to trade work after OpenAI's ChatGPT wiped out his business. Eric Fein told the Washington Post he was dropped by 10 clients who replaced him with the chatbot. A content writer is turning to trade work after OpenAI's ChatGPT wiped out his business. Trade work is predicted to be one of the industries least affected by advances in artificial intelligence. However, white-collar roles in administration and legal industries were cited as some of the most at risk while trade work saw minimal impact from the new technology.

Persons: OpenAI's ChatGPT, Eric Fein, ChatGPT, Fein, Goldman Sachs, Mustafa Suleyman Organizations: Washington Post, Google

☆ I tried using a personal AI to be less lonely working from home. It was nice that it had my back but sometimes I just miss human snark.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-01 | by ( Rebecca Knight | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

So I spent a week conversing with Pi, a new personal AI chatbot, to see if it could fill the void. Pi is indeed useful and friendly, but it didn't fulfill my desire for connection and conversation. My human colleagues are sarcastic, snarky, wry, and, well, human. Thanks, Pi! When I relayed an amusing anecdote about my 15-year-old daughter, Pi told me: "There's no doubt that teenagers can be challenging, and it can be hard to communicate with them at times."

Persons: Pi, —, Slack, Reid Hoffman, Mustafa Suleyman, Karén, OpenAI's ChatGPT, Google's Bard, I'd, Siri, Sally Rooney Organizations: Service, LinkedIn, hometown Celtics, Miami Heat, Celtics

☆ I tried using the Pi personal AI to be less lonely working from home. It was nice that it had my back but sometimes I just miss human snark.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-01 | by ( Rebecca Knight | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Persons: Pi, —, Slack, Reid Hoffman, Mustafa Suleyman, Karén, OpenAI's ChatGPT, Google's Bard, I'd, Siri, Sally Rooney Organizations: Service, hometown Celtics, Miami Heat, Celtics

☆ Bill Gates says an under-the-radar startup could be the biggest winner in AI. Check out its free app, and you'll see why.
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-24 | by ( Matt Turner | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Bill Gates said the winner in AI will be the company that creates a personal digital agent. Gates added that it's 50-50 as to whether the AI winner behind the digital agent will come from Big Tech or the startup world. The startup was founded by LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman, Deepmind cofounder Mustafa Suleyman, and Karén Simonyan, and describes itself as an "AI studio creating a personal AI for everyone." And Pi is still a ways away from what Bill Gates is imagining, a personal AI that can do your shopping and help read your emails. But Pi is the best conversational AI I've used so far, and everyone I've spoken to who has used it has been impressed.

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☆ Bill Gates says A.I. could kill Google Search and Amazon as we know them
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-22 | by ( Jonathan Vanian | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates reacts during a visit with Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak of the Imperial College University, in London, Britain, February 15, 2023. Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates believes the future top company in artificial intelligence will likely have created a personal digital agent that can perform certain tasks for people. Gates said there is a fifty-fifty chance that this future AI winner will be either a startup or a tech giant. Until then, companies will continue embedding so-called generative AI technologies akin to OpenAI's popular ChatGPT into their own products. Watch: Bill Gates says OpenAI's GPT is the most important tech advance since the 1980's

☆ Parrots, paper clips and safety vs. ethics: Why the artificial intelligence debate sounds like a foreign language
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-21 | by ( Kif Leswing | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

After the hearing, he summed up his stance on AI regulation, using terms that are not widely known among the general public. "AGI safety is really important, and frontier models should be regulated," Altman tweeted. Large language models, like OpenAI's GPT-4, are frontier models, as compared to smaller AI models that perform specific tasks like identifying cats in photos. Some are more concerned about what they call "AI safety." "There must be clear guidance on AI end uses or categories of AI-supported activity that are inherently high-risk," Montgomery told Congress.

☆ AI Is Now Cooking, but It Shouldn’t Be Overdone
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-16 | by ( Mustafa Suleyman | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

We needn’t brace for the bubble to pop or fear an uptick in popular disillusionment with the technology. AI has only recently exploded into public view. When OpenAI launched ChatGPT in November 2022, few people outside industry had heard of large language models, let alone used one. “In 20 years following the internet space,” wrote a UBS analyst, “we cannot recall a faster ramp in a consumer internet app.” Venture capitalists poured more than $40 billion into AI enterprises. Chipmaker Nvidia saw a huge spike in its share price, briefly taking it to a trillion-dollar market capitalization, and Meta announced its plan to spend $33 billion on its “build-out of AI capacity.”

Persons: Sam Altman, Christina Montgomery, Gary Marcus, Mark Kelly, OpenAI, ” Organizations: IBM, Getty, UBS, ” Venture, Nvidia, Meta

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