Sam Altman says discussions about AI's energy usage are “unfair”, as it takes “20 years of life and all of the food you eat during that time” to train a human
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman addressed concerns about AI's environmental impact this week while speaking at an event hosted by The Indian Express.
In recent interviews, Sam Altman said AI's adoption faces more resistance than he expected, while Jensen Huang warned the “doomer narrative” may be winning
Tech leaders are beginning to worry about the public's underwhelming enthusiasm for their plans to remake the world with artificial intelligence.LinkedIn:Bridget FahrlandandDaron Y...
Sam Altman says currently “the idea of putting data centers in space is ridiculous” and that it is “not something that's going to matter at scale this decade”
Once allies at OpenAI, Sam Altman and Elon Musk are now sharply divided over the future of AI infrastructure.
Sam Altman says discussions about AI's energy usage are “unfair”, as it takes “20 years of life and all of the food you eat during that time” to train a human
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman addressed concerns about AI's environmental impact this week while speaking at an event hosted by The Indian Express.
Hugging Face surpasses 1M AI model listings for the first time; the platform began as a chatbot app in 2016 before becoming a hub for AI models in 2020
Benj Edwards / Ars Technica :
OpenAI's o1 models aren't as simple as the next step up from GPT-4o as they introduce major cost and performance trade-offs in exchange for improved “reasoning”
OpenAI released two major new preview models today: o1-preview and o1-mini (that mini one is also a preview …
OpenAI releases o1, the first of its rumored reasoning-focused Strawberry models, in preview, alongside a smaller o1-mini, for ChatGPT Plus and Team subscribers
Advancing cost-efficient reasoning. — Contributions Sabrina Ortiz / ZDNET : OpenAI trained its new o1 AI models to think before they speak - how to access them Ethan Mollick / On...
Screenshots of Google's AI Overview giving bizarre answers go viral, including telling users to add “1/8 cup of non-toxic glue” to make cheese stick to a pizza
- Google's AI Overviews feature suggested a user put glue on pizza so the cheese would stay put.
OpenAI's Scarlett Johansson debacle is merely a reminder of AI's manifest-destiny philosophy: “This is happening, whether you like it or not”, consent be damned
If you're looking to understand the philosophy that underpins Silicon Valley's latest gold rush, look no further than OpenAI's Scarlett Johansson debacle.
A look at Los Angeles' Homelessness Prevention pilot program, which uses AI to identify those at risk of becoming homeless, offering aid to keep them housed
A woman walks past tents for the homeless lining a street in Los Angeles, Calif. on Feb. 1, 2021. Bluesky: @ndnickerson.bsky.social . X: @capolicylab , @simonkp , and @mmitchell_ai...
Google fires 28 employees over their participation in a 10-hour sit-in at the company's New York and Sunnyvale offices to protest its business ties with Israel
https://medium.com/... X: Dr. Ks / @katejsim : Terminated worker here. Listen when employers tell you exactly who they are McCarthyism is alive and well. Look how terrified they ar...
Google fires 28 employees over their participation in a 10-hour sit-in at the company's New York and Sunnyvale offices to protest its business ties with Israel
Google has fired 28 employees over their participation in a 10-hour sit-in at the search giant's offices in New York and Sunnyvale …
Researchers say they haven't found “strikingly novel compounds” after analyzing a subset of the 2.2M new crystals DeepMind claimed its AI tool GNoME discovered
In November, Google's AI outfit DeepMind published a press release titled “Millions of new materials discovered with deep learning.”
Google promotes Liz Reid to Head of Search and names Cheenu Venkatachary as the lead of Search quality and ranking, among other executive Search team changes
and she's all in on AI Laurie Sullivan / MediaPost : Liz Reid Promoted To Head Of Google Search Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Roundtable : Google Changes: Liz Reid New Head Of Sea...
Reddit files to list its IPO on the NYSE, reporting revenue up 20% YoY to $804M in 2023, net loss down 43% YoY to $90.8M, 73M DAUs, and a $3.42 global ARPU
- Reddit on Thursday filed to go public. — Its market debut will mark the first major tech initial public offering of the year …
Google strikes a deal with Reddit, reportedly for $60M/year, gaining Reddit Data API access to surface more Reddit content in Search and to train its AI models
what you need to know Eileen AJ Connelly / The Wrap : Reddit Inks $60 Million-a-Year Deal To Train Google AI Ahead of Expected IPO | Report Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Roundtabl...
Q&A with Irene Solaiman, the head of global policy at Hugging Face, on her advice for women seeking to enter AI, the best way to responsibly build AI, and more
To give AI-focused women academics and others their well-deserved — and overdue — time in the spotlight … X: @mmitchell_ai X: @mmitchell_ai : Spotlight on my amazing coworker and f...
Researchers develop a “divergence attack” that makes ChatGPT emit sequences copied from its training data, by prompting the LLM to repeat a word numerous times
all it took was this prompt Mastodon: @aphyr@woof.group : The authors' web site for that LLM corpus-extraction attack is nicely done, too: https://not-just-memorization.github.io /...
Stability AI VP of Audio Ed Newton-Rex resigns, saying he disagrees with the company's view that training generative AI models on copyrighted works is fair use
Ed Newton-Rex has quit his role at Stability AI. In an exclusive op-ed, he shares why.
Marc Andreessen's Techno-Optimist Manifesto lists trust and safety, sustainability, and tech ethics as “enemies”, says AI is “our Philosopher's Stone”, and more
In a 5,200-word manifesto published by the venture capitalist and billionaire Marc Andreessen on Monday …