3 Top Engineers were from DeepMind
Google’s AI arm OpenAI has said it has hired three senior computer vision and machine learning engineers from rival Google DeepMind, all of whom will work in its newly opened office in Zurich, Switzerland. Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov and Xiaohua Zhai will be joining the company to work on multimodal artificial intelligence models capable of performing tasks in different mediums.
Sam Altman lowers the bar
Talking aboutAchieving Generative AI Models in the 21st century with asymptotically free intelligence, Elon Musk’s former Co-founder and CEO at OpenAI Murati said, “I’m quite confident that the progress will continue.” “There’s not a lot of evidence to the contrary. Whether we need new ideas to get to AGI-level systems, that’s uncertain,” she added.
They had 3 Top Engineers from Deep Mind
OpenAI’s Co-founder Mira Murati, in an interview with Steven Levy, said she wasn’t concerned about the recent chatter about developing more powerful generative AI models. “AI systems eventually will perform a wide range of cognitive tasks…as well as humans do,” Murati said. She further said it could take decades, but AI systems eventually will perform a variety of cognitive tasks as well as humans.
Jony Ive is building something that is artificial intelligence
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has said that AI “won’t solve all of humanity’s problems”. “AI matches…human capabilities and exceeds human capabilities. It’ll obliterate the problems plaguing humanity and usher in a golden age,” he added. Altman further said, “We’re getting [this] big AI bonus because ‘deep learning works’.” He further said that deep learning must be done at a “high” level.
Open Ai is a tech company, not a research lab
OpenAI Co-founder Sam Altman said that he hoped the startup would be better for the transition as they were for all their transitions. Many likely joined to focus on AI research, not to build and sell products, he added. OpenAI is still a nonprofit, which makes it harder to guess how a profit-focused version would work.
SearchGPT is a direct attack on Google by OpenAI
Software startup OpenAI has released a prototype of an AI search engine titled ‘SearchGPT’. The company said that the new tool is “designed to help users connect with publishers by prominently citing and linking to them in searches”. It added that the publishers will have a way to “manage how they appear in OpenAI search features”.
Major record labels are suing the company behind ‘BSL Drizzy’
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has filed lawsuits against Suno, Udio and OpenAI for alleged copyright infringement. RIAA said Suno’s technology generates soundalikes of artists like Mariah Carey without the permission of them. It claimed Suno’s training data contains copyrighted material that has been “misappropriated” and “misused”. Suno CEO Mikey Schulman said Suno doesn’t allow user prompts based on specific artists.
The neo-Nazis are all on the same page
Extremists in the US are using AI to produce video content as well as text, images and videos, according to a report by Tech Against terrorism. The report said that with the release of OpenAI’s Sora and other video generation or manipulation platforms, extremists have been using them as a means of producing video content.
Apple announced a lot at the conference
Apple has announced several new AI features and a partnership with OpenAI at the Worldwide Developers Conference (WDC) in San Jose. Apple said it will launch a new app called Vitals that will let users view their most important health metrics with “just a glance”. It added that Siri Interactions will let users shake their head yes or no to respond to Siri’s announcements.
There is not enough protection for whistle blowers on artificial intelligence safety, say former Openai employees
Several employees of AI startup OpenAI wrote an open letter saying they “reasonably fear various forms of retaliation” as they report violations of regulations. They added that current protections for whistle blowers aren’t sufficient because they focus on “illegal activity” rather than concerns that are “mostly unregulated”. They further said AI’s potential to benefit society is being “fettered” by companies.