A fashion photoshoot of a runway look inspired by a black and white geometric spiral. A large screen displays the word “OpenAI” –ar 4:3 –style raw
The Opaque Investment Empire Making OpenAI’s Sam Altman Rich
The Opaque Investment Empire Making OpenAI’s Sam Altman Rich – WSJ
“🚨 ChatGPT adds “Background Conversations” in its latest update. It allows you to keep the conversation going even if you are using other apps or your screen is off. GPT-4o new voice feature might be coming soon!
“My favorite feature of inviting OpenAI researchers to hang out with startups is that they can be 100% consistently relied upon to ask every founder “what makes you think the next generation of the foundation models won’t do this?” build with, not against the capability tide!”
Extracting Concepts from GPT-4 | OpenAI
We currently don’t understand how to make sense of the neural activity within language models. Today, we are sharing improved methods for finding a large number of “features”—patterns of activity that we hope are human interpretable.
FTC and DOJ reportedly opening antitrust investigations into Microsoft, OpenAI, and Nvidia – The Verge
U.S. Clears Way for Antitrust Inquiries of Nvidia, Microsoft and OpenAI – The New York Times
“1/15: In April, I resigned from OpenAI after losing confidence that the company would behave responsibly in its attempt to build artificial general intelligence — “AI systems that are generally smarter than humans.”
“Former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner released a new essay series detailing his view on AGI. The researcher says that ‘nobody is pricing in’ what is coming in AI, and to expect another GPT-2 to GPT-4 level jump by 2027 (that would take us to AGI)
“Current and former employees from OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepMind published an open letter called ‘A Right to Warn’ It calls for companies to expand whistleblower protections so workers can raise the alarm about potential AI dangers without fear of retaliation.
Research Engineer, Robotics | OpenAI | OpenAI
OpenAI is restarting its robotics research group – The Robot Report
“Sam Altman responded to Helen Toner’s reveals on the Ted AI Show last week. In case you missed it, the ex-OpenAI board member claimed Sam Altman was “in some cases outright lying to the board,” and they found about the launch of ChatGPT through Twitter
Securing Research Infrastructure for Advanced AI | OpenAI
We’re sharing some high-level details on the security architecture of our research supercomputers.
I’m Bearish OpenAI – by Stephen – Stove Top
The reason for my bearishness is simple: OpenAI, the software company, will ultimately lose to Apple, Google, and Meta.
“My AI smart speaker using @OpenAI – now with vision! #GPT4 🔊 📷 Code:
Character voices with GPT-4o voice – YouTube
Why Is Apple (AAPL) Teaming Up With OpenAI? Both Companies Need Each Other – Bloomberg
“Ashton Kutcher has access to a beta version of OpenAI’s Sora and says it will lead to personalized movies and a higher standard of content through increased competition
“Alignment, of a sort: this paper conducts what they call a “moral Turing Test,” asking people to compare GPT-4o to humans on ethical questions. “Here we find that LLMs appear to have a strong aptitude for moral reasoning on par with expert ethicists.”
ChatGPT is back online after an outage – The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/4/24171264/chatgpt-down-outage-errors
This week’s executive overview and top links are here:
AI News #36: Week Ending 06/07/2024 with Executive Summary and Top 40 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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