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27 Sep

No, Sam Altman, AI Won’t Solve All of Humanity’s Problems

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We already knew where OpenAI’s CEO, Sam Altman, stands on artificial intelligence vis-à-vis the human saga: It will be transformative, historic, and overwhelmingly beneficial. He has been nothing but consistent across countless interviews. For some reason, this week he felt it necessary to distill those opinions in a succinct blog post. “The Intelligence Age,” as he calls it, will be a time of abundance. “We can have shared prosperity to a degree that seems unimaginable today; in the future, everyone’s lives can be better than anyone’s life is now,” he writes. “Although it will happen incrementally, astounding triumphs—fixing the climate,…

26 Sep

New report details OpenAI’s plan to switch to for-profit mode

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A major shakeup is in the works at OpenAI. reported that the artificial intelligence research company is restructuring its business from a non-profit board into a for-profit corporation. The publication also says Sam Altman would be given equity in the new corporation.OpenAI’s move to for-profit wouldn’t eliminate its non-profit entity entirely. The non-profit would own a stake in the new for-profit venture but it won’t have nearly the power as it did. An OpenAI spokesperson gave a statement that’s identical to the one they gave to Fortune’s initial report about the restructuring. Couldn’t they at least have used OpenAI’s software…

25 Sep

OpenAI CTO Mira Murati Is Leaving the Company

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OpenAI chief technology officer Mira Murati resigned on Wednesday, saying she wants “the time and space to do my own exploration.” Murati had been among the three executives at the very top of the company behind ChatGPT, and she was briefly its leader last year while board members wrestled with the fate of CEO Sam Altman.“There’s never an ideal time to step away from a place one cherishes, yet this moment feels right,” she wrote in a message to OpenAI staff that she posted on X.Altman replied to Murati’s X post writing that “it’s hard to overstate how much Mira…

25 Sep

The Most Capable Open Source AI Model Yet Could Supercharge AI Agents

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The most capable open source AI model with visual abilities yet could see more developers, researchers, and startups develop AI agents that can carry out useful chores on your computers for you.Released today by the Allen Institute for AI (Ai2), the Multimodal Open Language Model, or Molmo, can interpret images as well as converse through a chat interface. This means it can make sense of a computer screen, potentially helping an AI agent perform tasks such as browsing the web, navigating through file directories, and drafting documents.“With this release, many more people can deploy a multimodal model,” says Ali Farhadi,…

25 Sep

ChatGPT Clone: Revolutionizing AI Conversations with Customized Solutions

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The rapid advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) have given birth to numerous innovations, one of the most notable being OpenAI's ChatGPT. However, businesses and developers today seek more personalized solutions—enter the ChatGPT clone. A ChatGPT clone is a customizable version of the original model, offering flexibility, control, and adaptability for specific applications. Whether it's customer support, personal assistants, or interactive learning platforms, these clones are transforming the way we interact with AI. In this article, we’ll delve deep into what a ChatGPT clone is, how it works, and how you can create your own. We will also answer key questions…

22 Sep

Jony Ive confirms he’s working with Sam Altman on a secret project

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Rumors emerged last year of a collaboration between former Apple designer Jony Ive and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, but the two have until now kept quiet about it. In a profile by that was published this weekend, though, Ive confirms his company LoveFrom is leading the design on an AI product being built with Altman. Also on board are Tang Tan and Evans Hankey, both of whom held big design roles at Apple.There’s so far a team of about 10 employees involved with the project, based in a San Francisco office building that’s one of several properties Ive has purchased…

21 Sep

OpenAI staffers reportedly ‘taken aback’ by ‘ominous’ logo rebranding

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OpenAI could undergo massive changes next year, which include getting a brand new logo. According to Fortune, though, staff members were less than enthused when they got a sneak peek of its supposed new logo at a recent company-wide meeting. The company's hexagonal flower symbol, which has become pretty recognizable thanks to ChatGPT's popularity, is gone. Instead, it's replaced by a large black "O" or a simple ring or circle that staffers reportedly found to be devoid of creativity — ominous, even.Based on how the publication's sources described it, the new logo sounds like the complete opposite of OpenAI's current…

18 Sep

I Stared Into the AI Void With the SocialAI App

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The first time I used SocialAI, I was sure the app was performance art. That was the only logical explanation for why I would willingly sign up to have AI bots named Blaze Fury and Trollington Nefarious, well, troll me.Even the app’s creator, Michael Sayman, admits that the premise of SocialAI may confuse people. His announcement this week of the app read a little like a generative AI joke: “A private social network where you receive millions of AI-generated comments offering feedback, advice, and reflections.”But, no, SocialAI is real, if “real” applies to an online universe in which every single…

17 Sep

OpenAI Threatens Bans as Users Probe Its ‘Strawberry’ AI Models

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OpenAI truly does not want you to know what its latest AI model is “thinking.” Since the company launched its “Strawberry” AI model family last week, touting so-called reasoning abilities with o1-preview and o1-mini, OpenAI has been sending out warning emails and threats of bans to any user who tries to probe how the model works.Unlike previous AI models from OpenAI, such as GPT-4o, the company trained o1 specifically to work through a step-by-step problem-solving process before generating an answer. When users ask an "o1" model a question in ChatGPT, users have the option of seeing this chain-of-thought process written…

16 Sep

OpenAI’s new safety board has more power and no Sam Altman

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OpenAI has announced significant changes to its safety and security practices, including the establishment of a new independent board oversight committee. This move comes with a notable shift: CEO Sam Altman is no longer part of the safety committee, marking a departure from the previous structure.The newly formed Safety and Security Committee (SSC) will be chaired by Zico Kolter, Director of the Machine Learning Department at Carnegie Mellon University. Other key members include Quora CEO Adam D'Angelo, retired US Army General Paul Nakasone, and Nicole Seligman, former EVP and General Counsel of Sony Corporation.This new committee replaces the previous Safety…