OpenAI News: Week Ending 02/16/2024

February 26, 2024

“Sam Altman talks about GPT-5 https://t.co/IJkBSbd89P” / X – https://twitter.com/andrewmichaelio/status/1757500370606067952

“We’re testing ChatGPT’s ability to remember things you discuss to make future chats more helpful. This feature is being rolled out to a small portion of Free and Plus users, and it’s easy to turn on or off. https://t.co/1Tv355oa7V https://t.co/BsFinBSTbs” / X – https://twitter.com/OpenAI/status/1757469997742666052

OpenAI Researcher Andrej Karpathy Departs — The Information – https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-researcher-andrej-karpathy-departs

Andrej Karpathy is leaving OpenAI again — but he says there was no drama | TechCrunch – https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/13/andrej-karpathy-is-leaving-openai-again-but-he-says-there-was-no-drama/

Memory and new controls for ChatGPT – We’re testing the ability for ChatGPT to remember things you discuss to make future chats more helpful. You’re in control of ChatGPT’s memory.

https://openai.com/blog/memory-and-new-controls-for-chatgpt

Disrupting malicious uses of AI by state-affiliated threat actors – https://openai.com/blog/disrupting-malicious-uses-of-ai-by-state-affiliated-threat-actors

Sam Altman owns OpenAI’s venture capital fund – https://www.axios.com/2024/02/15/sam-altman-openai-startup-fund

Is OpenAI the next challenger trying to take on Google Search? – The Verge – https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/14/24073320/is-openai-the-next-challenger-trying-to-take-on-google-search

“OpenAI Shatters The Data Advantage With Sora, OpenAI has proven that there is no inherent advantage to owning a lot of proprietary data. My guess is that they created a lot of synthetic data. Synthetic data generation is extremely common in vision problems, anyway. They built…” / X – https://twitter.com/bindureddy/status/1758251081526870176

Report: Sam Altman seeking trillions for AI chip fabrication from UAE, others | Ars Technica – https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/02/report-sam-altman-seeking-trillions-for-ai-chip-fabrication-from-uae-others/

OpenAI experiments with giving ChatGPT a long-term conversation memory | Ars Technica – https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/02/amnesia-begone-soon-chatgpt-will-remember-what-you-tell-it-between-sessions/

Sam Altman Seeks Trillions of Dollars to Reshape Business of Chips and AI – WSJ – https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/sam-altman-seeks-trillions-of-dollars-to-reshape-business-of-chips-and-ai-89ab3db0

Sam Altman Wants $7 Trillion – Explained – by Scott Alexander – https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/sam-altman-wants-7-trillion

“One simple use of current AI capabilities that I haven’t seen implemented yet is that GPT-4V can create cheap monitoring systems with any webcam. Send an image once every 30 minutes and ask “You are a [security guard/exterminator/etc] do you see anything that concerns you? ” https://t.co/sZ6p3Mlgzm” / X – https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1758139186597478840

OpenAI Hits $2 Billion Revenue Milestone – FT – https://money.usnews.com/investing/news/articles/2024-02-09/openai-hits-2-billion-revenue-milestone-ft

OpenAI’s next AI product could be after your job (again) – Android Authority –
The company is working on AI agents that can take over the user’s device to perform even more complex tasks. https://www.androidauthority.com/openai-ai-agent-coming-soon-3412336/
Report: Sam Altman seeking trillions for AI chip fabrication from UAE, others | Ars Technica – https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/02/report-sam-altman-seeking-trillions-for-ai-chip-fabrication-from-uae-others/

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