an OpenAI office in a forest with a trail sign that reads “OpenAI” –ar 5:3 –style raw
This week’s category cover theme is a sign in a forest. Each category image prompt is a derivative of the formula “an [category themed object] in a forest with a trail sign that reads “[category name]”. Using a theme each week takes the cover creation time down to about 20 minutes, rather than several hours.
OpenAI Strikes a Deal to License News Corp Content – The New York Times
A landmark multi-year global partnership with News Corp | OpenAI
“OpenAI seems to have the ability to create video in Sora, send it to ChatGPT for a script, use Voice Engine for voice over and put it all together. All can be seen in this clip from @VivaTech showing @romainhuet #vivatech
“More OpenAI Sora teasers came out of presentations at the VivaTech conference. OpenAI’s @romainhuet showed a new demo that combined multiple unreleased models together to create generated narrated videos. It combines ChatGPT, Voice Engine, and Sora.
Why OpenAI is forced to enter the search business
OpenAI isn’t just competing with Google Search. It’s coming for Google Assistant, Alexa & Siri, too. | Mashable – https://mashable.com/article/openai-chatgpt-voice-assistant-google-io
Inside OpenAI’s Library – The New York Times
“OpenAI opening an office in France?
“Life update: After ~2 years at Anthropic, I joined OpenAI! This wasn’t the easiest decision and I’m very grateful to everyone who is supporting me through this transition, especially John, Barret, Boris, Mira, and Sam. I joined Anthropic as the first designer / front-end” / X
“We’re rolling out interactive tables and charts along with the ability to add files directly from Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive into ChatGPT. Available to ChatGPT Plus, Team, and Enterprise users over the coming weeks.
What Is Apple Doing in AI? Summaries, Cloud and On-Device LLMs, OpenAI Deal – Bloomberg
“Power On: Inside Apple’s generative AI plan, partnership with OpenAI and how it’ll need to evolve to pass its biggest challenge in the Cook era.
“This is a big leap forward to doing real data analysis with GPT-4o. It still can’t quite handle the way many people use spreadsheets (Excel formulas, etc.) but it is pretty impressive. You can zoom into spreadsheets and ask about cells, modify graphs, etc. I trimmed 45 seconds.
Scarlett Johansson “Her” Sky Controversy (read from top to bottom for the narrative)
“Scarlett Johansson is taking legal action against OpenAI after they ‘copied’ her voice for GPT-4o. According to the actress, Sam Altman tried to hire her voice last September, she said no, and Sam used cloned and used her voice anyway. Insane if true.
“Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI situation. Wow:
“the Scarlett / OpenAI thing is so remarkable because it makes the AI Attribution conversation so tangible and relatable to a broad set of people. Forget laws, we haven’t even established societal norms on AI attributions — and accelerating that will allow generally acceptable” / X
“According to new documents, OpenAI didn’t copy Scarlett Johansson’s voice for GPT-4o’s voice. The real voice actress behind the ‘Sky’ voice just came forward, saying she was hired months before Sam Altman even contacted Scarlett Johansson.
“seems like everyone should apologize to @OpenAI …
How the voices for ChatGPT were chosen | OpenAI
OpenAI didn’t copy Scarlett Johansson’s voice for ChatGPT, records show – The Washington Post
“OpenAI is mostly trained off public data, which is creating friction over data (and voice) rights. It’s estimated that 80% of the world’s data is behind a firewall or private cloud: exclusive data. This is data that most AI models have not trained on. Therein lies huge” / X
Three OpenAI alignment team dissolved, members quit
“In case you also missed the OpenAI drama over the weekend, it gets worse. The company dissolved its AI safety team focused on long-term risks, following the departure of Ilya and Jan Leike last week. Went in depth in yesterday’s newsletter:
“Yesterday was my last day as head of alignment, superalignment lead, and executive @OpenAI.” / X
“OpenAI must become a safety-first AGI company.” / X
“We’re really grateful to Jan for everything he’s done for OpenAI, and we know he’ll continue to contribute to the mission from outside. In light of the questions his departure has raised, we wanted to explain a bit about how we think about our overall strategy. First, we have” / X
What happened to OpenAI’s long-term AI risk team? | Ars Technica
“I gave my notice to OpenAI on May 14th. I admire and adore my teammates, feel the stakes of the work I am stepping away from, and my manager @Miles_Brundage has given me mentorship and opportunities of a lifetime here. This was not an easy decision to make.” / X
Gretchen Krueger on X: “I resigned a few hours before hearing the news about @ilyasut and @janleike, and I made my decision independently. I share their concerns. I also have additional and overlapping concerns.” / X – https://x.com/GretchenMarina/status/1793403476707565695
Chaos and tension at OpenAI – Marcus on AI
OpenAI NDA/Departure Document Controversy
OpenAI NDAs: Leaked documents reveal aggressive tactics toward former employees – Vox
OpenAI departures: Why can’t former employees talk, but the new ChatGPT release can? – Vox
Sam Altman is ‘embarrassed’ that OpenAI threatened to revoke equity if exiting employees wouldn’t sign an NDA
“Scoop: OpenAI’s senior leadership says they were unaware ex-employees who didn’t sign departure docs were threatened with losing their vested equity. But their signatures on relevant documents (which Vox is now releasing) raise questions about whether they could have missed it.” / X
“impressive follow-up from @KelseyTuoc bringing receipts that it wasn’t just some standard exit paperwork from OpenAI; they seem to have proactively pressured employees to sign the non-disparagement clause, with crystal-clear threats to exclude them from future liquidity events” / Xhttps://twitter.com/soumithchintala/status/1793467399150436563
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AI News #34: Week Ending 05/24/2024 with Executive Summary and Top 47 Links
The post you just read is an deep dive extension of my weekly newsletter, This Week In AI, an executive summary of the top things to know in AI. Each week, I create an accessible overview for laypeople to feel confident they are conversant with the week’s AI developments. I include a curated list of must-click links of the week, to offer everyone a hands-on opportunity to explore the most intriguing updates in artificial intelligence across various categories, including robotics, imagery, video, AR/VR, science, ethics, and more. Beyond the overview, I post these topic-based deeper dives (below). If you haven’t read this week’s overview, I recommend starting there.
- Agents/Copilots
- Amazon
- Apple
- Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)
- Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR)
- Autonomous Vehicles
- AI Audio
- Business and Enterprise AI
- Chips and Hardware
- Consumer Products
- Education
- Ethics/Legal Security
- Images/Photos
- International AI News
- Locally Run AI Models
- Mobile
- Meta
- Microsoft
- OpenAI
- Open Source
- Podcasts/YouTube
- Publishing and News
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) News
- Robots and Embodiment
- Science and Medicine
- Video
- Vision/Multimodality
- X/Twitter/Grok
- Tech and Development
Credits/Sources
Most of these weekly links come from just a few prolific oversharing sources. Please follow them, as they work hard to find the news each week and they make it a lot easier for me to compile.
- Robert Scoble: https://x.com/Scobleizer
- Ethan Mollick: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emollick/
- Alan Thompson: https://lifearchitect.ai/
- Theoretically Media: https://www.youtube.com/@TheoreticallyMedia
- The Rundown: https://www.therundown.ai/
- Bilawal Sidhu: https://twitter.com/bilawalsidhu/
- TLDR: https://tldr.tech/ai
- Jeremiah Owyang: https://twitter.com/jowyang
- Nick St. Pierre: https://twitter.com/nickfloats
- Dr. Jim Fan: https://twitter.com/DrJimFan
- All About AI: https://www.youtube.com/@AllAboutAI
- Marshall Kirkpatrick: https://aitimetoimpact.com/
- AI News (Smol Talk): https://buttondown.email/ainews/archive/
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