Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning

There is a lot riding on the earnings report this week from Nvidia, both for the company’s ebullient investors and the entire stock market.Nvidia has been the big winner of the bet that artificial intelligence is the next big thing in tech, the so-called AI trade that surged in popularity after OpenAI’s release of its ChatGPT app. The chip maker’s shares have more than tripled this year, contributing to a sizable portion of the S&P 500’s 18% rise.Copyright ©2023Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved.…

Updated Nov. 20, 2023 6:34 am ETSAN FRANCISCO—Microsoft said it is hiring Sam Altman to helm a new advanced artificial-intelligence research team, after his bid to return to OpenAI fell apart Sunday with the board that fired him declining to agree to the proposed terms of his reinstatement.Microsoft Chief Executive Satya Nadella posted on X (formerly Twitter) late Sunday that Altman and Greg Brockman, OpenAI’s president and co-founder who resigned Friday in protest over Altman’s ouster, will lead its team alongside…

Amazon.com is launching a program to train millions of workers in artificial-intelligence skills as the tech giant seeks to gain an edge in a pitched battle for talent with Microsoft, Google and other companies.Named “AI Ready,” Amazon’s new program plans to train at least two million people by 2025 on basic to advanced AI skills, including how to make use of the generative AI technology that has powered language-based models such as ChatGPT. Amazon aims to fill a gap in AI talent as it has sought to generate interest in…

Updated Nov. 19, 2023 4:52 pm ETSAN FRANCISCO—The abrupt shake-up at OpenAI turns on one of the oldest tales in Silicon Valley: a breakup between a founder and his board.But in this case it was a very particular kind of founder—the face of Silicon Valley’s artificial-intelligence revolution—and a very particular kind of board, which was tasked with making social good a priority over profit. The rupture threatens the future of the company and the billions of dollars investors had put into it. Copyright ©2023Dow Jones…

Updated Nov. 18, 2023 6:28 pm ETOpenAI’s investors are making efforts to bring back Sam Altman, the chief executive who was ousted Friday, said people familiar with the matter, the latest development in a fast-moving chain of events at the artificial-intelligence company behind ChatGPT.Altman is considering returning but has told investors that he wants a new board, the people said. He has also discussed starting a company that would bring on former OpenAI employees, and is deciding between the two options, the people…

Last month, I interviewed Sam Altman and Mira Murati of OpenAI. Now she is taking over his job. Who knew? Certainly not them. The ouster of OpenAI’s Altman, one of tech’s most visible chief executives, shocked the business and tech world on Friday. It also put the company’s chief technology officer, Murati, in charge of tech’s biggest and most daunting job: leading the AI pioneer without disrupting life as we know it.Copyright ©2023Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8…

Updated Nov. 17, 2023 4:20 pm ETOpenAI said co-founder Sam Altman is leaving as chief executive because the artificial-intelligence company’s board found he wasn’t being “consistently candid in his communications.”“The board no longer has confidence in his ability to continue leading OpenAI,” the company said in a blog post Friday. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8 Updated Nov. 17, 2023 4:20 pm ETOpenAI said co-founder Sam Altmanis leaving as chief…

Scammers are capitalizing on the rush of consumer interest in artificial-intelligence tools to steal U.S. small businesses’ social-media-account passwords, Google alleges in a new lawsuit. The lawsuit, filed Monday, targets unnamed individuals in India and Vietnam. Google said the hackers have been tricking small-business owners into clicking on Facebookads that offer to download Google’s Bard artificial-intelligence chatbot. When they do, the ads hit them with malware that steals their social-media credentials. …

Updated Nov. 5, 2023 3:35 pm ETElon Musk’s artificial-intelligence startup showed off its first product: a bot named Grok whose sense of humor the billionaire demonstrated with jokes about Sam Bankman-Fried and how to make cocaine.Musk, in a series of social-media posts over the weekend, included those sample responses from Grok as he boasted that it has both a love of sarcasm and the advantage of access to real-time information via X, the platform formerly known as Twitter that he bought just over a year ago.Copyright ©…

A group of former Apple executives is launching a consumer device that will be among the first to use a ChatGPT-powered voice assistant, one of a number of new hardware offerings seeking to free users from the ubiquity of smartphones.On Thursday, the San Francisco-based startup Humaneannounced the availability of a wearable device, called the Ai Pin, which sits on a user’s chest like a Star Trek badge. The company said its main function is to access an artificial-intelligence assistant that uses ChatGPT, the hugely…