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Sam Altman Also Thinks ChatGPT ‘Kinda Sucks,’ and He Should Know

If you’re burnt out over generative AI hype, you’re not alone. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said GPT-4, his company’s latest and greatest AI model, actually kinda sucks in an interview with Lex Fridman published on Monday. In fact, Altman is hoping GPT-5 can live up to all the hype.I Gave Sam Altman a Copy of My Eyeballs | Future Tech“I think it kind of sucks,” Altman said when asked about GPT-4 and its most impressive capabilities. “I think it is our job to live a few years in the future and remember that the tools we have now…

ChatGPT Is More Likely to Sentence People Who Speak African American English to Death, Researchers Say

A new paper found that large language models from OpenAI, Meta, and Google, including multiple versions of ChatGPT, can be covertly racist against African Americans when analyzing a critical part of their identity: how they speak.No Google AI Search, I Don’t Need to Learn About the “Benefits of Slavery” Published in early March, the paper studied how large language models, or LLMs, carried out tasks, such as pairing people to certain jobs, based on whether the text analyzed was in African American English or Standard…

Artificial general intelligence may already be obsolete as a concept

Back in 2018, at Google’s I/O conference, I attended a session on the concept of Artificial General Intelligence—AI algorithms that could demonstrate humanlike fluency at all sorts of reasoning tasks, not just those it had been specifically trained to perform. Sitting in the back of a packed audience, my mind was suitably boggled at the prospect. And it would have been more boggled still if I knew that less than six years later, reasonable people would be debating whether AGI was imminent. Or maybe even already here. …

Elon Musk Wanted OpenAI to Merge With Tesla

OpenAI’s founders published a scathing response to Elon Musk’s lawsuit Tuesday night, claiming that Musk made a power grab to achieve “absolute control” of the AI startup in 2017. The emails reveal Musk was originally on board with making the startup less open-sourced and profitable, even though he is now suing OpenAI for those reasons. The key difference is that Musk is no longer in charge.Did Elon Musk Regret Buying Twitter? | Walter Isaacson Interview“In late 2017, we and Elon decided the next step for the mission was…

Anthropic says its new Claude 3 AI chatbot scores better on key benchmarks than GPT-4

The battle between AI chatbots is more than a two-horse race. Anthropic, the company formed by several ex-OpenAI employees, claims its new Claude 3 language model outperforms ChatGPT and Google's Gemini in several key industry benchmarks. It even hit "near-human" levels on some tasks, the company wrote in a blog.There are three new chatbots under the Claude 3 umbrella, including Haiku, Sonnet, and Opus. Sonnet powers the Claude.ai chatbot and is offered for free with an email sign-in. Meanwhile, Opus is the largest and…

Anthropic Sets a New Gold Standard: Your Move, OpenAI

Anthropic, a startup born out of OpenAI defectors, claims its new chatbot, Claude 3, has broken new ground for the AI world. The updated AI chatbot, released on Monday, outperforms ChatGPT and Google Gemini’s most advanced models, potentially crowning a new king in the AI world. Anthropic released three tiers – Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku – which range from most to least capable.Why is Everyone Suing AI Companies? | Future Tech“Opus shows us the outer limits of what’s possible with generative AI,” said Anthropic in a blog…

Microsoft’s Copilot AI Calls Itself the Joker and Suggests a User Self-Harm

Editor’s Note: The following story contains references to self-harm. Please dial “988” to reach the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline if you’re experiencing suicidal thoughts or mental health-related distress. Warning! Microsoft Wants ChatGPT to Control Robots NextAI chatbots are nothing like the all-knowing and manipulative supervillains we see in movies, according to the companies behind them, at least. However, after seeing Microsoft’s Copilot chatbot, formerly Bing Chat, literally call itself the Joker and suggest users…

Elon Musk Sues OpenAI for Not Being Open, Says He Wants His $44 Million Back

Elon Musk has never shied away from critiquing OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT that he cofounded back in 2015. He doesn’t like the fact that the company decided it wants to make money after it was founded as a nonprofit. Now, Musk is doing something about it: He’s asking a court to force OpenAI to carry out its nonprofit mission. Oh, and he wants his $44 million in donations back.Did Elon Musk Regret Buying Twitter? | Walter Isaacson InterviewMusk sued OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman in a San Francisco court on Thursday,…

Elon Musk sues OpenAI, its CEO Sam Altman: Here's why

Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman for allegedly violating their original contractual agreements related to AI. The lawsuit, filed in a San Francisco court, centers on OpenAI's most recent natural language model, called GPT-4. Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman for allegedly violating their original contractual agreements related to AI. The lawsuit, filed in a San Francisco court, centers on…

Duolingo stock price hits near record high amid AI transformation

Duolingo’s stock surged more than 20% Thursday after the company reported 44% year-over-year revenue growth in 2023, totaling $531.1 million, during its earnings call Wednesday.The language learning platform’s shares closed at $195.51 Wednesday and soared to $240.77 Thursday morning, nearing its one-year high of $245.87. The company’s shares dipped slightly during trading throughout the day, settling around $230 at the time of this writing.Duolingo “achieved record high user engagement and a record number of subscribers”…