“‘What you really want,’ he told MIT Technology Review, ‘is just this thing that is off helping you.’ Altman, who was visiting Cambridge for a series of events hosted by Harvard and the venture capital firm Xfund, described the killer app for AI as a ‘super-competent colleague that knows absolutely everything about my whole life, every…
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Sam Altman ousted as OpenAI’s CEO
“Sam Altman has been fired from OpenAI, Inc., the 501(c)(3) nonprofit that acts as the governing body for OpenAI, the AI startup behind ChatGPT, DALL-E 3, GPT-4 and other highly capable generative AI systems. He’ll both leave the company’s board of directors and step down as CEO.” https://techcrunch.com/2023/11/17/sam-altman-is-out-as-openais-ceo/amp/
Artificial intelligence is now part of our everyday lives – and its growing power is a double-edged sword
“We asked Open AI’s GPT-3 system, one of the largest neural networks ever built, to summarise the AI100 report for you. It did a pretty good job, even if the summary confronts our sense of self by being written in the first person: In the coming decade, I expect that AI will play an increasingly…
An artificial intelligence predicts the future
“We asked an AI called GPT-2, created by OpenAI, a research outfit. Given a prompt, such as a question or the first sentence of a story, it generates what might plausibly come next. Here are some of its (unedited) answers to our questions on the big themes of 2020. Q: How do you see the…
THE AI TEXT GENERATOR THAT’S TOO DANGEROUS TO MAKE PUBLIC
Image: ALYSSA FOOTE “In 2015, car-and-rocket man Elon Musk joined with influential startup backer Sam Altman to put artificial intelligence on a new, more open course. They cofounded a research institute called OpenAI to make new AI discoveries and give them away for the common good. Now, the institute’s researchers are sufficiently worried by something…