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☆ OpenAI's new global head of affairs lays out vision for Washington
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-24 | 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 EmailOpenAI's new global head of affairs lays out vision for WashingtonCNBC's Deidre Bosa joins 'The Exchange' with details about OpenAI's message to Washington.

Persons: Bosa Organizations: Washington Locations: Washington

☆ Another safety researcher is leaving OpenAI
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-24 | by ( Darius Rafieyan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Miles Brundage, who advises OpenAI leadership on safety and policy, announced his departure. The AGI Readiness team he oversaw will be disbanded. AdvertisementMiles Brundage, a senior policy advisor and head of the AGI Readiness team at OpenAI, is leaving the company. Brundage is the latest high-profile safety researcher to leave OpenAI. AdvertisementHe's been responsible for some of OpenAI's biggest innovations in safety research, including instituting external red teaming, which involves outside experts looking for potential problems in OpenAI products.

Persons: Miles Brundage, OpenAI, —, Brundage, Jan Leike, Ilya Sutskever, Mira Murati, Bob McGrew, Barret Zoph, He's Organizations: AGI, Service Locations: OpenAI

☆ Google VP Amin Vahdat leads the company in innovating with AI chips
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-24 | by ( Hugh Langley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

With its core business under threat, Google has spent the past two years pouring resources into building its own AI chips. In charge of those efforts is Vahdat, one of Business Insider's 2024 AI Power List picks. Vahdat has been at the company for more than a decade and is today setting the direction for Google's silicon strategy. That also means working closely with Google DeepMind to take its breakthrough models and integrate them throughout Google's products, whether YouTube's creator tools or Google's search ads. See Business Insider's full AI Power List

Persons: Vahdat Organizations: Google, Amazon, Microsoft

☆ Amazon-backed Anthropic debuts AI agents that can do complex tasks, racing against OpenAI, Microsoft and Google
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-22 | by ( Hayden Field | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Anthropic, the Amazon-backed AI startup founded by former OpenAI research executives, announced Tuesday that it's reached an artificial intelligence milestone for the company: AI agents that can use a computer to complete complex tasks like a human would. Anthropic is the company behind Claude — one of the chatbots that, like OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Gemini, has exploded in popularity. Amazon had early access to the tool, Anthropic told CNBC, and early customers and beta testers included Asana, Canva and Notion. The company has been working on the tool since early this year, according to Kaplan. Anthropic said that future consumer applications include booking flights, scheduling appointments, filling out forms, conducting online research and filing expense reports.

Persons: it's, Claude —, Jared Kaplan, Anthropic, Kaplan, Claude Organizations: Microsoft, Meta, CNBC

☆ Mark Cuban: If I was 16 again, I’d start this lucrative side hustle—it can pay 6 figures a year and doesn't require a degree
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-22 | by ( Megan Sauer | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

First, he'd learn how to write prompts for artificial intelligence language models like OpenAI's ChatGPT or Google's Gemini. "Then, I would go to businesses, particularly small- to medium-sized businesses that don't understand AI yet," says Cuban. AI prompt engineering — or, the ability to phrase inquiries to chatbots to get desired responses — can be a particularly lucrative opportunity. The average pay for AI tutors starts at about $30,000 per year, and full-time AI prompt engineers can make up to $129,500, according to job board platform ZipRecruiter. Sign up for CNBC's online course How to Earn Passive Income Online to learn about common passive income streams, tips to get started and real-life success stories.

Persons: Mark Cuban, he'd, I'd, Zers, bartended, Cuban Organizations: CNBC, Vanderbilt University, Indiana University, CompuServe, Yahoo, Cuban, Forbes Locations: U.S, Pittsburgh

The parent company of TikTok says it has dismissed an intern that it found to have "maliciously interfered" with its artificial intelligence technology effort. In a statement in Chinese released Monday, the parent company, ByteDance, said the intern in question had committed a "serious violation" against its commercial technology team's "research project." In particular, the intern's actions affected ByteDance's AI training program, the company said. In the AI world, companies attempt to program an AI application by "training" it on vast amounts of data to recognize patterns, understand context, and make decisions — in other words, "learn." It is not clear what aspect of the AI model the intern is accused of interfering with.

Persons: ByteDance, Donald Trump, Kamala Harris, Trump, Harris Organizations: NBC News, Facebook Locations: TikTok, China

☆ This is OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's favorite question about AGI
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-19 | by ( Lakshmi Varanasi | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Earlier this year, Sam Altman discussed the future of artificial general intelligence at Harvard. Altman said he envisions AGI as a tool to enhance productivity and create shared intelligence. OpenAI's mission is to develop AGI, a form of intelligence that mimics human reasoning. AdvertisementSam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, is always in the media spotlight, fielding many questions. It showed him one part of "what the post-AGI world can look like," Altman said on the Life in Seven Songs podcast.

Persons: Sam Altman, Altman, —, Patrick Chung, OpenAI, AGI, — Altman, we're, it'll, Rob Price Organizations: Harvard, Service, Harvard Business School

☆ Sam Altman risks spreading himself too thin at OpenAI
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-18 | by ( Lloyd Lee | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Sam Altman has taken a more prominent role at OpenAI as several top leaders have left the company. Altman risks spreading himself too thin, three management experts told BI. Now, as Altman leads OpenAI toward a possible for-profit future, some corporate management experts warn that the CEO could stretch himself too thin — taking on too many job functions. Altman and a spokesperson for OpenAI didn't respond to requests for comment from Business Insider. It's possible that Altman could take on the CTO role on a temporary basis, Sonnenfeld said, "but it's not likely that he can do this very long."

Persons: Sam Altman, Altman, —, Sam Altman's, OpenAI, Mira Murati, Altman hasn't, Fiss, Elon, Patricia Lenkov, Lenkov, Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Sonnenfeld Organizations: Service, Business, Bloomberg, University of Southern, Apple, Twitter, JPMorgan, Yale University's School of Management, Yale, Leadership Locations: OpenAI, University of Southern California

☆ Wall Street is trying to make AI search sexy
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-18 | by ( Bianca Chan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Finance firms and fintech startups are trying to use generative AI to improve search capabilities. Perfecting search, down the line, could lead to more automation and more complex generative AI tools. It has already onboarded some-25 Wall Street firms onto its generative AI platform. AdvertisementMeanwhile, two Stanford grads came together to build Mako, a generative AI associate for the private-equity industry. The search tool is the bank's second such generative AI tool, the first being a generative AI developer co-pilot that helps software engineers code more efficiently.

Persons: Goldman Sachs, Blackstone, —, Goldman hoovered, Neema Raphael, Raphael, it's, Morgan Stanley's, Keri Smith, Smith, Jeff McMillan, Gabe Stengel, Stanford grads, It's, Peter Anderson, Familiarizing, Goldman Organizations: Service, Bloomberg, Nasdaq, Goldman, Blackstone, Google, Bank of America's, Accenture, Stanford, Balyasny Asset Management Locations: Wall, OpenAI

☆ Nicola Coughlan got 'spooked' after stumbling upon an AI clone of her own voice. She's not the only performer it's happened to.
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-17 | by ( Palmer Haasch | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Nicola Coughlan said she was "spooked" after encountering her AI vocal likeness on TikTok. AI-generated audio featuring the vocal likeness of public figures is common on social media. But Coughlan herself experienced a new horror — running into her AI-generated vocal likeness. "It was just an AI version of my voice, and it spooked me so badly," Coughlan told Time. Voice actor Connor Fogarty told Business Insider in September that he had encountered AI-generated videos featuring his voice on social media, which a fan took down at his request.

Persons: Nicola Coughlan, —, Coughlan, Coughlan didn't, she's, Drake, Munch, Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Biden, unpresidential, Donald's, that's Donald Grump, Scarlett Johansson, OpenAI, Johansson, Connor Fogarty Organizations: Service, YouTube, Hollywood, WGA Locations: Hollywood, TikTok, States

☆ Elon Musk's xAI is on a hiring spree for 'AI tutors'
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-16 | by ( Helen Li | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Elon Musk's AI startup xAI is hiring AI Tutors for data annotation to train language algorithms. xAI partners closely with X, formerly known as Twitter, which sees user decline and ad pullbacks. AdvertisementElon Musk's new AI company is on a hiring spree for a new type of data annotator. Last week, xAI listed multiple job postings for "AI Tutors." Multiple AI Tutors started their jobs in August and September, according to a LinkedIn analysis by Business Insider.

Persons: Elon, —, Musk, it's, X, xAI, Jensen Huang, Colossus Organizations: Service, Business, SpaceX, Tesla, Disney, Apple, Nvidia, NPR, Forbes Locations: Memphis, Brazil, San Francisco

☆ Alibaba's international arm says its new AI translation tool beats Google and ChatGPT
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-16 | by ( Evelyn Cheng | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

BEIJING — Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba 's international arm on Wednesday launched an updated version of its artificial intelligence-powered translation tool that, it says, is better than products offered by Google, DeepL and ChatGPT. Alibaba's fast-growing international unit released the AI translation product as an update to one unveiled about a year ago, which it says already has 500,000 merchant users. Sellers based in one country can use the translation tool to create product pages in the language of the target market. Large language models power artificial intelligence applications such as OpenAI's ChatGPT, which can also translate text. Alibaba's translation tool is based on its own model called Qwen.

Persons: Marco MT, Sellers, Kaifu Zhang Organizations: Alibaba, Google, Flores, Alibaba International Digital Commerce Group, CNBC Locations: China, BEIJING

☆ Taboola is looking to compete with Google and Facebook for small-business clients using a new generative AI tool for ad campaigns
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-15 | by ( Lara O'Reilly | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The tool was built using OpenAI's GPT-4o and data input from years of Taboola ad campaigns. They've maxed out Google and Facebook, not because their threshold for margin is tapped, but the way most spend on Google and Facebook, they will spend, and spend, and spend, and they stop because it gets expensive," Singolda said in an interview. Singolda said Abby was designed to help Taboola bring on more advertisers and tackle the onboarding process. And Taboola itself already offers an AI tool called Maximize Conversions that automates its clients' ad bidding strategies. Advertisement"I don't see generative AI tools as likely to drive near-term adoption of new ad platforms among SMBs," Lipsman said.

Persons: Abby, Taboola, —, Adam Singolda, Singolda, Publicis, Andrew Lipsman, Lipsman Organizations: Service, BBC, CBS, Yahoo, Apple News, Business, Google, Facebook, Big Tech, Omnicom, WPP

☆ Google is taking the nuclear option to power soaring demand for AI. Here's why it's such a big deal.
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-15 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

The search giant has struck a deal to bring new nuclear plants online to power its AI data centers. Google became the first tech giant to broker a deal for entirely new nuclear power plants after it unveiled a partnership with industry firm Kairos Power on Monday. AdvertisementGoogle CEO Sundar Pichai had previously hinted that his company was evaluating investment opportunities in nuclear power. That 86-page report didn't mention nuclear power, bar a single endnote. AdvertisementBy one estimate, a search request on OpenAI's buzzy chatbot demands around 10 times as much electricity as a general Google search.

Persons: —, Power, Sundar Pichai, Justin Sullivan, Getty, Michael Terrell, Ethan Mollick, FQtUsE0L9d, lChspwoZjC, OpenAI, Yann LeCun, Sam Altman, Altman Organizations: Google, Service, Big Tech, Wharton, Microsoft, Constellation, Amazon, Talen Energy, Susquehanna, Electric, Helion Energy Locations: East Tennessee, Baltimore, Pennsylvania, Davos, Big

☆ AI labs are fragmenting because of ego clashes and commercial pressures. It's about to drive a wave of new startups.
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-15 | by ( Riddhi Kanetkar | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

There is an impending wave of new startups spinning out of larger AI labs, per Air Street Capital's State of AI report. AI labs are fragmenting due to ego clashes, philosophical disagreements, and commercial pressures. But as AI labs work towards the sector's holy grail, known as artificial general intelligence, those personalities have clashed — sometimes leading to a very public parting of ways. They are just some of the examples in a long line of AI labs that have fractured away from their juggernaut predecessors to form new startups. The exception would be if AI labs pivot toward building a niche model within a specific vertical, he said.

Persons: —, Ilya Sutskever, Andreessen Horowitz, StabilityAI's, H's cofounders, Sam Altman, Noel Hurley, they're, Nathan Benaich, Samir Kumar, Kumar, Peter J, Liu, Hurley, Benaich Organizations: Service, Sequoia, Black, Labs, TechCrunch, Accel, UiPath, NEA, Founders, Air Street Capital, Literal Labs, Touring Capital, Meta, Google Locations: Capital's, Paris, Sutskever

☆ The latest AI trend is asking ChatGPT to tell you something about yourself that you might not know
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-15 | by ( Jaures Yip | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

ChatGPT users are asking the AI to reveal any personal traits it's gleaned from their past conversations. The ChatGPT responses posted by people online revealed long, detailed analyses that pointed out traits from users' "thoughtful approach to conversations" or ability to "blend curiosity with analysis." AdvertisementSome ChatGPT users suggested follow-up questions for the AI that might result in a less complimentary response. One person on X suggested asking ChatGPT to give them "the real talk," and another on Reddit, for a similar prompt, suggested telling the bot to "play devil's advocate." The viral prompt suggests that many people are getting comfortable talking to AI and asking it personal questions.

Persons: —, Tom Morgan, Sam Altman, ChatGPT Organizations: Service

☆ Nvidia heads for record close as AI chipmaker's market cap tops $3.4 trillion
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-14 | by ( Kif Leswing | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Jensen Huang, co-founder and chief executive officer of Nvidia Corp., speaks during an event in Taipei, Taiwan, on Sunday, June 2, 2024. Nvidia shares headed for a record close on Monday as Wall Street gears up for earnings season and updates from all of the chipmaker's top customers on their planned spending on artificial intelligence infrastructure. Companies including Microsoft , Meta , Google , and Amazon are purchasing Nvidia GPUs in large quantities to build increasingly large clusters of computers for their advanced AI work. With a market cap of $3.4 trillion, Nvidia is the second most valuable publicly traded U.S. company, behind Apple at about $3.53 trillion. WATCH: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on Squawk Box

Persons: Jensen Huang, ChatGPT Organizations: Nvidia Corp, Nvidia, Companies, Microsoft, Meta, Google, Mizuho, U.S, Apple Locations: Taipei, Taiwan

☆ OpenAI will need to prove it's in the public's best interest as it becomes a for-profit company
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-14 | by ( Lakshmi Varanasi | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

But strategy advisors say it'll need to get more serious about defining its public benefit. Unlike traditional for-profit businesses, which are primarily focused on maximizing shareholder value, public benefit corporations must balance stakeholder interests with those of their employees and customers. Investors can also question why a company isn't progressing on its stated public benefit. It will also need to define its "public benefit" as part of its new corporate charter, he added. So as OpenAI restructures, the pressure is now on the company to clearly articulate its public mission and show that it's serious about it.

Persons: —, OpenAI, Axios, Travis Borden, Keene, OpenAI's, Borden, Altman, Ilya Sutskever, Jan Leike, Mira Murati, restructures, Jens Dammann Organizations: Service, Legal, Institute, Cornell Law School, Keene Advisors, University of Texas School of Law, Business Locations: Silicon, Delaware, —

☆ 'Let chaos reign': AI inference costs are about to plummet
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-14 | by ( Emma Cosgrove | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

All kinds of startups are rushing into the AI inference market. AdvertisementJared Quincy Davis and his AI computing startup Foundry sell inference. And cost in inference computing is even more important than in training, Groq cofounder Jonathan Ross recently told BI. In other words, "it turns out, when you make inference cheaper, people decide to do a lot more inference," Davis said. He agrees the next few years will be wildly competitive for inference providers, but he believes the winners will be decided on merit.

Persons: —, Jared Quincy Davis, Davis, Jonathan Ross, Mitesh Agrawal, Agrawal, it's, Jensen Huang, Davis isn't, Intel Andy Grove, Sriram Viswanathan, Viswanathan, Hugh Langley Organizations: Service, Foundry, SambaNova Systems, Lambda, Nvidia, Microsoft, Business, o1, Intel, Celesta Capital

☆ Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang breaks down how he interviews job candidates
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-14 | by ( Jaures Yip | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang talked about his recruiting process in a recent podcast interview. Huang said it's easy for candidates to research a company's technical questions or come across well. AdvertisementIf you're interviewing with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, you can bet your references will be getting a call. Huang said that the company's technical questions are often shared online, making it "hard" to conduct genuine and rigorous interviews. With the company's market cap topping $3.3 trillion and second only to Apple, there are many wealthy Nvidia employees.

Persons: Jensen Huang, Huang, —, Lindsey Duran, Duran, Nviida, Jensen Organizations: Nvidia, Service, YouTube, Blackwell, Apple, Business

☆ AI isn't likely to replace humans at work, says report—but 5 occupations may soon feel its impact more
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-14 | by ( Alex Koller | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Artificial intelligence is already changing the way some people work, but it's not yet poised to replace the work that humans do, according to a new report from Indeed. A 68.7% majority of skills were "very unlikely" or "unlikely" to be replaced by AI, while 28.5% of skills may "potentially" be replaceable. Indeed's report examined soft skills like communication, leadership and organization, more technical skills including specific coding languages, and hands-on skills such as cooking and administering medication. Still, workers shouldn't shy away from certain career paths that are more susceptible to being replaced by AI, according to Gudell. "It's really all about using these tools to your maximum advantage when you're searching for a job," Gudell says.

Persons: Svenja Gudell, —, Gudell Organizations: CNBC

☆ South Park creator Matt Stone asks if Sam Altman does anything other than 'go on podcasts'
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-13 | by ( Kenneth Niemeyer | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

South Park parodied OpenAI's ChatGPT last year. AdvertisementOpenAI CEO Sam Altman may join the ranks of celebrities pilloried by South Park. Stone and Trey Parker, co-creators of South Park, are also behind the AI entertainment startup Deep Voodoo. Deep Voodoo showed off a face-swapping tool on an acclaimed Kendrick Lamar video that replaced his face with those of O.J. South Park parodied OpenAI's ChatGPT in the March 2023 episode "Deep Learning."

Persons: Sam Altman, Matt Stone, Altman's, OpenAI's ChatGPT, —, Altman, Stone, Trey Parker, Kendrick Lamar, O.J, Kobe Bryant, OpenAI's, ChatGPT Organizations: Service, Bloomberg Locations: South Park, Simpson

☆ Google's share of the search ad market could drop below 50% for the first time in a decade as AI search engines boom
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-13 | by ( Kenneth Niemeyer | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Google's search ad market share in the US could fall below 50% for the first time in a decade. Perplexity AI, meanwhile, says it is attracting "top-tier" advertisers. It launched Gemini, its own large language model that now presents Google search results in natural language at the top of the page, in March 2023. Google is also leveraging AI to better present ads in its search results. AdvertisementGoogle and Perplexity AI did not immediately return requests for comment for this story.

Persons: —, Axel Springer, Alpha, Mark Shmulik, ChatGPT, Brendon Kraham, We've, Dmitry Shevelenko, Jeff Bezos, Forbes, Perplexity, Shevelenko Organizations: Google, Service, Business Insider, Bernstein Research, Wall Street, Nvidia

☆ The Harvard students who added AI facial recognition to Meta glasses share some of their other big ideas
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-13 | by ( Kenneth Niemeyer | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The two Harvard students who put facial recognition AI in Meta's Ray-Ban glasses have big ideas. The duo, AnhPhu Nguyen and Caine Ardayfio, are known for their innovative tech projects. AdvertisementTwo Harvard students spooked the world with their demonstration of facial recognition using Meta Ray-Bans. They also built AI into augmented reality glasses that can fact-check a user's statement during an argument in real time. Ardafiyo and Nguyen have big ideas for AI products in manufacturing, construction, and industrial tech spaces, they told BI.

Persons: Meta's, AnhPhu Nguyen, Caine Ardayfio, —, Meta Ray, Nguyen, Ardayfio, Ardafiyo, Anthropic's Claude, haven't, Ardifiyo, Adifiyo, That's Organizations: Harvard, Service, Meta Locations: Meta's Ray

☆ Nvidia-backed CoreWeave gets $650 million credit line from top Wall Street banks
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-11 | by ( Hayden Field | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

CoreWeave, an Nvidia -backed artificial intelligence startup that rents out chips to other companies, announced Friday that it has a new $650 million credit line to expand its business and data center portfolio. In the past, CoreWeave has supplied Microsoft and French AI startup Mistral with graphics processing units, or GPUs. And in addition to developing the chips, Nvidia has taken stakes in emerging AI companies like CoreWeave, partly as a way to make sure its technology gets widely deployed. Last week, OpenAI received a $4 billion revolving line of credit, bringing its total liquidity to more than $10 billion. Many of the same banks contributed to OpenAI's credit line.

Persons: it's, CoreWeave, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, Mike Intrator, CoreWeave's, OpenAI Organizations: Nvidia, London, Microsoft, JPMorgan, Barclays, Citi, Deutsche Bank, Jefferies, Mizuho Locations: Austin , Texas, Chicago, Las Vegas, French, MUFG, Wells Fargo

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