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☆ Sam Altman wants to solve the great AI chip shortage himself
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-23 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

That's according to a report from Bloomberg , which stated that Altman had been busy pitching heavyweight investors to back a new AI chip venture that would give his company a lot more control over its chip supply. AdvertisementBut a bunch of tech companies have started designing their own. In November, for instance, Microsoft unveiled its new Azure Maia AI chip , designed with large language model (LLM) training in mind. Despite this, Altman's plan has already won fans. "Building the best AI assistants, AIs for creators, AIs for businesses and more – that needs advances in every area of AI."

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☆ Meet the OpenAI mafia: These 19 former employees left the AI juggernaut and founded startups that have collectively raised nearly $8 billion
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-22 | by ( Samantha Stokes | Riddhi Kanetkar | Darius Rafieyan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Dario Amodei, Daniela Amodei, Tom Brown, Jack Clark, Jared Kaplan, and Sam McCandlish, cofounders of AnthropicAnthropic's Dario Amodei, Jack Clark, and Daniela Amodei. Since then, the company has received billions in funding from both Google and Amazon in what some have termed an "AI arms race." CEO Dario Amodei, a former Google Brain researcher with a Ph.D. in computational neuroscience, has been writing about the cataclysmic potential of AI since 2016. Constitutional AI is partly the brainchild of two other OpenAI alums and Anthropic cofounders, Tom Brown and Jared Kaplan. Both Kaplan and Brown have worked on Anthropic's efforts to "red team" the company's flagship language model, Claude, probing for misuse possibilities.

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☆ Direct File is the most important tech product of 2024, helping you to finally file your taxes for free
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-22 | by ( Alistair Barr | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

I'll go further and say this offering is the most important tech product of 2024. Direct FileI'm talking about Direct File , a new way for many Americans to file their taxes for free. She also questioned the value of the new Direct File service in various ways. Give Direct File a tryWhich brings us back to the new Direct File service. When I searched for "free file taxes" this weekend, the top of Google's results page was full of ads.

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☆ Don't worry — the machines won't be as smart as humans for a long time, because they've still got a lot to learn
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-20 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Much of today's most popular AI models, such as OpenAI's GPT-4, are trained on what's publicly available on the internet. It's worth noting that AI models exist today that are pretty effective at generating images, but these are text-to-image models, like Midjourney and Stable Diffusion. Koller also sees issues with today's LLMs. This isn't the first time doubts have been raised about the capacity of today's AI models. Steve Jennings/Getty Images for TechCrunchThis is not to say today's LLMs are useless.

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People attend the 54th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, in Davos, Switzerland, January 18, 2024. Javier MileiArgentina's President Javier Milei delivers a speech at the World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in Davos on January 17, 2024. Sam AltmanSam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, attends the 54th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 18, 2024. He said AGI could be developed in the "reasonably close-ish future," speaking at a private gathering at the Bloomberg House in Davos, Switzerland. AI took a huge leap forward in the last year or two years," Benioff said on a World Economic Forum panel Thursday.

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A person walks on the day of the 54th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, in Davos, Switzerland, January 19, 2024. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse Denis Balibouse | ReutersThe 2024 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland will wrap Friday. Here are some of takeaways from Davos after our week talking to business leaders and government officials at the conference. Experts see no U.S. recession in 2024Overwhelmingly, economic experts and executives privately said they don't expect a U.S. recession in 2024. China fighting for cashChina's Premier Li Qiang speaks during the 54th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, January 16, 2024.

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☆ Mark Zuckerberg is sitting on a mountain of the hottest commodity in tech right now
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-19 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) 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. CEO Zuckerberg expects Meta to have amassed a total of 600,000 GPUs, including Nvidia's A100s and other AI chips, by year-end. That's three times more than to companies including Google, Amazon, and Oracle, Omdia estimates. Last September, Microsoft's chief technology officer Kevin Scott said that the tech company is finding it easier to get hold of Nvidia's chips, CNBC reported. AdvertisementStill, Zuckerberg said that Meta's current arsenal of Nvidia AI chips may spell trouble for other companies who want to cash in on the hype.

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DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — Artificial intelligence is easily the biggest buzzword for world leaders and corporate bosses diving into big ideas at the World Economic Forum’s glitzy annual meeting in Davos. In a sign of ChatGPT maker OpenAI’s skyrocketing profile, CEO Sam Altman is making his Davos debut to rock star crowds, with his benefactor, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, hot on his heels. Illustrating AI’s geopolitical importance like few other technologies before it, the word was on the lips of world leaders from China to France. Here's a look at the buzz:OPENAI OPENING BIG AT DAVOSPolitical Cartoons View All 253 ImagesThe leadership drama at the AI world's much-ballyhooed chatbot maker followed Altman and Nadella to the swanky Swiss snows. China, one of the world’s centers of AI development, wants to “step up communication and cooperation with all parties” on improving global AI governance, Li said.

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☆ Mark Zuckerberg indicates Meta is spending billions of dollars on Nvidia AI chips
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-18 | by ( Jonathan Vanian | In | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

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."

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☆ Google DeepMind cofounder says AI can act like an entrepreneur and inventor in the next five years
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-18 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Read previewMustafa Suleyman, the cofounder of DeepMind, Google's AI division, says that AI will be able to create and run its own business within the next five years. During a Thursday panel on AI at the 2024 World Economic Forum, the now-CEO of Inflection AI was asked how long it would take for AI to pass an exam akin to the Turing test. He seems to believe that AI will be able to exhibit those business-savvy capabilities before 2030— and inexpensively. Earlier this week, Suleyman told CNBC at Davos that AI is a "fundamentally labor-replacing" tool in the long term. Advertisement"It will be able to reason over your day, help you prioritize your time, help you invent, be much more creative," Suleyman told CNBC.

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☆ Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg makes biggest pledge to AI yet
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-18 | by ( Samantha Murphy Kelly | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on Thursday that Meta plans to build its own artificial general intelligence, known as AGI, which is artificial intelligence that meets or surpasses human intelligence in almost all areas. Zuckerberg’s latest announcement is one of its biggest pledges to double down on artificial intelligence. Big Tech companies including Microsoft, Google and Amazon continue to share new AI tools and visions amid a heightened and renewed AI arms race. Earlier this year, Zuckerberg said Meta is creating a new “top-level product group” to “turbocharge” the company’s work on AI tools. “That trope around ‘every company is now a technology company’ has evolved to be every company is now an AI company,” he said.

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☆ Sam Altman wants people to move on from the 'soap opera' that was his brief firing from OpenAI
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-17 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

"I mean, I'm wrapping it up," Stone told Altman. Makanju told Stone that OpenAI's staff had been caught off guard by the news that Altman was out. We were all on Friday, preparing to have a restful week after an insane year," Makanju told Stone. "The only comparable set of life experience I had, and that one was, of course, much worse, was when my dad died," Altman told Noah. Representatives for Altman did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider sent outside regular business hours.

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☆ Amazon is working on a new 'Remarkable Alexa' but internal politics and technical issues plague the project
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-17 | by ( Eugene Kim | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

The team is working towards a June 30 launch deadline, and has been testing the underlying voice technology, dubbed "Remarkable Alexa," with 15,000 external customers, these people said. Internally, however, Amazon isn't satisfied with the performance of the new Remarkable Alexa yet. But the new Remarkable Alexa follows a more centralized structure, where language understanding and response generation use a single language model. The Classic Alexa team, for example, wants to protect their work by insisting on using what they built for the old Alexa, one of the people said. In addition to the subscription-based Alexa, Amazon is also working on a new Alexa product that can be used within a web browser, people familiar with the project told BI.

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"You've now reached the end of today's AI utility," Gelsinger said. "This next phase of AI, I believe, will be about building formal correctness into the underlying models." "Certain problems are well solved today in AI, but there's lots of problems that aren't," Gelsinger said. "Basic prediction, detection, visual language, those are solved problems right now. But at the end of the day, I need the knowledge worker to say is it right."

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☆ A former OpenAI exec says AI could be the last technology humans ever invent
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-17 | by ( Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

So now you start compounding the implications on life sciences, and biosciences and it gets really, really exciting. I will say this, I don't think that it is currently popular to espouse an overwhelmingly positive sentiment, because I think it is seen as naive. I think we are so wrapped up in the Terminator Skynet idea, and I just don't think that's even remotely interesting given what we think we're building. I point to nuclear as the best example of how one policy, especially influenced by public perception, can have a really, really incredible consequence on the human experience. I think there is not enough attention paid to the issue of AI versus AI.

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Sam Altman, chief executive officer of OpenAI, at the Hope Global Forums annual meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, US, on Monday, Dec. 11, 2023. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says concerns that artificial intelligence will one day become so powerful that it will dramatically reshape and disrupt the world are overblown. "It will change the world much less than we all think and it will change jobs much less than we all think," Altman said at a conversation organized by Bloomberg at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. "Yes, for sure, I think that's something to think about," Altman said. WATCH: OpenAI, Microsoft and NYT will likely reach a settlement

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☆ Hugging Face CEO says he's focused on building a 'sustainable model' for the $4.5 billion open-source-AI startup
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-28 | by ( Ashley Stewart | Monica Melton | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

It's an open-source platform where scientists, researchers, and engineers build, train, and deploy AI models. With his company, Delangue wants to follow in the footsteps of companies such as Red Hat by making open-source AI a profitable endeavor. "If we don't support openness, open science, and open-source AI, just a few companies will be able to do it," Delangue told Business Insider. The episode has made open-source models look more attractive because they don't rely on a single company that could suddenly lose all its employees. What do you see your customers using Hugging Face's AI models for most?

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After the sudden ouster of their CEO, hundreds of OpenAI employees signed an open letter demanding Altman's reinstatement and the resignation of the board. And for at least some of those OpenAI employees, there's relief that they don't actually have to go work for Microsoft. Advertisement"Even though we have a partnership with Microsoft, internally, we have no respect for their talent bar," the current OpenAI employee told BI. Money, the great motivatorBeyond the culture clash between the two companies, there was another important factor at play for OpenAI employees: money. Furious Microsoft employeesSome Microsoft employees, meanwhile, were furious that the company promised to match salaries for hundreds of OpenAI employees.

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☆ The tech powering ChatGPT won't make AI as smart as humans. Others might.
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-05 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

But the tech powering it has limitations and may struggle to make AI that is as smart as humans. NEW LOOK Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. This means the public gets to see research faster, but it isn't necessarily reliable. AdvertisementHe gave "kudos" to Dao and Gu "for pushing on alternative sequence architectures for many years now." ChatGPT was a landmark cultural event that sparked an AI boom.

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☆ AI is more likely to become as clever as a dog in the next few years than mimic a human, industry godfather says
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-04 | by ( Sawdah Bhaimiya | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Meta's chief AI scientist Yann LeCun is sceptical that AI will reach human-level intelligence anytime soon. The AI godfather previously said that AI hasn't been able to fully capture the human experience yet. AdvertisementMeta's chief AI scientist has reiterated his skepticism about AI reaching advanced or human-level intelligence in the near future, contrasting the viewpoints of some more bullish tech leaders. LeCun explained that AI will likely reach "cat-level" or "dog-level" intelligence years before it achieves human-level intelligence. This is largely because AI is being trained on language models and text that are not sufficient to create advanced AI.

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☆ DeepMind's cofounder Demis Hassabis is a chess champion who landed funding from Peter Thiel by talking about a key tension in the game
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-03 | by ( Lakshmi Varanasi | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementBefore DeepMind's Demis Hassabis became a leading figure in AI, he was a chess master who had won multiple world championships. Hassabis told Thiel that the best chess players understood the unique strengths of the bishop and the knight, even though both pieces hold the same value. It was not only DeepMind's first significant investment but also one of Thiel's first investments outside the Silicon Valley orbit. He felt the power of Silicon Valley was sort of mythical, that you couldn't create a successful big technology company anywhere else.

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☆ Meta's AI chief doesn't think AI super intelligence is coming anytime soon, and is skeptical on quantum computing
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-03 | by ( Jonathan Vanian | In | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

"I know Jensen," LeCun said at a recent event highlighting the Facebook parent company's 10-year anniversary of its Fundamental AI Research team. Society is more likely to get "cat-level" or "dog-level" AI years before human-level AI, LeCun said. And the technology industry's current focus on language models and text data will not be enough to create the kinds of advanced human-like AI systems that researchers have been dreaming about for decades. These so-called multimodal AI systems represent the next frontier, but their development won't come cheap. And as more companies such as Meta and Google parent Alphabet research more advanced AI models, Nvidia could stand to gain even more of an edge, particularly if no other competition emerges.

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☆ Read Linda Yaccarino’s message to X employees about Elon Musk's controversial DealBook interview
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-30 | by ( Jonathan Vanian | In | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Linda Yaccarino sent a memo to employees of X (formerly Twitter) on Thursday in the aftermath of Elon Musk's interview with Andrew Ross Sorkin, which she characterized to her staff as "candid" and "profound." Musk's original comments drew condemnation from the White House, which blasted Musk for promoting "antisemitic and racist hate." X owner and CTO Musk said during the interview. In the memo sent Thursday, Yaccarino told employees that the X owner "shared an unmatched and completely unvarnished perspective and vision for the future." You're at X because you have the courage and conviction to build and operationalize the most consequential platform that exists.

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Vice Chairman of Microsoft Brad Smith looks on during the 5th Summit of "Christchurch Call", at the Elysee Presidential Palace in Paris, France November 10, 2023. LUDOVIC MARIN/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsLONDON, Nov 30 (Reuters) - The president of tech giant Microsoft (MSFT.O) said there is no chance of super-intelligent artificial intelligence being created within the next 12 months, and cautioned that the technology could be decades away. Reuters last week exclusively reported that the ouster came shortly after researchers had contacted the board, warning of a dangerous discovery they feared could have unintended consequences. However, Microsoft President Brad Smith, speaking to reporters in Britain on Thursday, rejected claims of a dangerous breakthrough. Asked if such a discovery contributed to Altman's removal, Smith said: "I don't think that is the case at all.

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☆ Microsoft's top brass still don't seem to know what the heck happened with Sam Altman and OpenAI
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-30 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Microsoft has put billions into OpenAI, but it still doesn't know why its board fired Sam Altman. Microsoft president Brad Smith dismissed the idea that the drama was over a dangerous AI discovery. NEW LOOK Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementLooks like Microsoft's top brass are still out of the loop with what the heck happened over at OpenAI.

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