Blackstone President Jonathan Gray says AI risk is “top of our list” when evaluating deals; sources: the firm backed down from buying companies vulnerable to AI
“People say, ‘This smells like a bubble,’” but they're not asking: 'What about legacy businesses that could be massively disrupted?'" he said. …
China plans to set up a committee of 41 members, including representatives from Baidu and Peking University, to set standards for LLMs and AI risk assessment
The UK CMA opens a formal probe into Google's Anthropic partnership, sets a December 19 deadline; Google planned to invest $2B in 2023 and signed a cloud deal
Introducing SAIF Tom Jowitt / Silicon UK : CMA Begins Probe Into Alphabet Partnership With Anthropic Associated Press : Google's partnership with AI startup Anthropic faces a UK competition investigat...
OpenAI pulls ChatGPT's Sky voice after users compared the sound to Scarlett Johansson, saying Sky is an actress' voice and wasn't chosen to be an “imitation”
and she's not happy they might have anyway Liv McMahon / BBC : ChatGPT to lose voice over Johansson similarity OpenAI : How the voices for ChatGPT were chosen Ben Schoon / 9to5Google : ChatGPT disable...
OpenAI's entire Superalignment team, which was focused on the existential dangers of AI, has either resigned or been absorbed into other research groups
During my twenties in Silicon Valley, I ran among elite tech/AI circles through the community house scene. I have seen some troubling things around social circles of early OpenAI Austen Allred / @aust...
Meta's Yann LeCun says regulating R&D for AI “is incredibly counterproductive” and only serves to reinforce the dominance of Big Tech and stifle competition
Their innovation is about running over peoples autonomy [embedded post] X: Stephanie Hare / @hare_brain : “There's no question that we'll have machines assisting us that are smarter than us. And the q...
OpenAI and DeepMind executives, Geoffrey Hinton, and 350+ others sign a statement saying “mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority”
and says computer scientists need ethics training Brian Fung / CNN : AI industry and researchers sign statement warning of ‘extinction’ risk Alka Jain / Livemint : Industry leaders warn ‘AI poses risk...
A New York lawyer faces sanctions for using ChatGPT to write his legal brief that had “bogus judicial decisions, with bogus quotes and bogus internal citations”
Thanks, ChatGPT? Maya Posch / Hackaday : ChatGPT v. The Legal System: Why Trusting ChatGPT Gets You Sanctioned CourtListener : Mata v. Avianca, Inc. (1:22-cv-01461) Igor Bonifacic / Engadget : A lawye...
Accel and Sequoia check whether their portfolio companies in India and SE Asia are exposed to AI disruption; 75%+ of Sequoia India's new deals are AI related
Saritha Rai / Bloomberg : Tweets: @pkedrosky , @pkedrosky , and @saritharai Tweets: Paul Kedrosky / @pkedrosky : Weird Bloomberg piece out on how various venture firms are “scouring” their portfolios...
Accel and Sequoia check whether their portfolio companies in India and SE Asia are exposed to AI disruption; 75%+ of Sequoia India's new deals are AI related
Global investors at the world's largest venture capital firms including Accel and Sequoia Capital India are asking their portfolio companies … Tweets: @pkedrosky , @saritharai , and @pkedrosky Tweets:...