Sam Altman spoke toThe Vergeabout OpenAI’s five days of drama. The first question he had to field is probably a question that he’ll have to answer in plenty of interviews until the board releases the conclusions of the independent investigation: Why was he fired?
But that relationship blew up publicly last week when Muskfiled a lawsuitagainst OpenAI and two of its executives, CEO Sam Altman and President Greg Brockman, accusing them of violating those founding principles by putting profits over humanity. Now, OpenAI is offering its retort, saying in ablog...
[05:10.16]The nonprofit board of directors fired Altman [05:14.40]as chief executive officer late last year. [05:19.48]But Microsoft helped bring Altman back [05:23.24]and pushed most of the old board of directors to leav...
“OpenAI, Inc. has been transformed into a closed-source de facto subsidiary of the largest technology company in the world: Microsoft."
Why it matters:The work was a product of OpenAI’s collaboration with the longevity company Retro Labs, in which Sam Altmaninvested$180 million. It represents OpenAI’s first model focused on biological data and its first public claim that its models can deliver scientific results. The AI model...
OpenAI does have another historical precedent going for it, though. If DeepSeek and Chinese AI models do indeed become to LLMs as Google’s open-source Android did to mobile — taking the lion’s share of the market for a while — you only have to see how the Apple iPhone with its ...
Moving forward, as companies capitalise on the AI boom, experts now warn of dataexhaustionfor AI training purposes. OpenAI CEOSam Altmanand more recently xAI ownerElon Muskhave also expressed concerns about human knowledge for such purposes being near depletion. According to aData Provenance study, ...
February 9, 2017 Richard Egenas Leave a comment Finally… we’re pleased to announce that we now have released the Tech Preview of the EnvokeIT Workspace Client service!! What is this and why did we build this SaaS device configuration service? Have you also tried to roll-out Windows ...
For the reality show “Go Big,” he did a belly flop from a height of over 26 feet into a kiddie pool with 10 inches of water. Play Setting the pool on fire is just for theatrics, the real danger is the ordinary act of diving. Even with a deeper pool, a belly flop from ...
Some of Silicon Valley's leaders back a basic income to counteract the automation their sector is creating, includingElon Musk, who has called artificial intelligence an "existential risk."22In 2016, Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, announced an ambitious study on the effects of a basic income in ...