Mustafa

Microsoft recently announced the…

Camilla Hodgson / Financial Times: After its early OpenAI bet, Microsoft hiring Mustafa Suleyman and Inflection's staff continues a strategy of developing close ties with leading AI practitioners — Satya Nadella's hiring of Mustafa Suleyman continues strategy of developing close ties with fledging artificial intelligence companies Camilla Hodgson / Financial Times: After its early OpenAI bet, Microsoft hiring Mustafa Suleyman and Inflection's staff continues a strategy of developing close ties…

Microsoft announced Monday that it has hired Mustafa Suleyman, currently CEO of personal AI company, Inflection AI, to be its CEO of new consumer AI division, Microsoft AI. Suleyman will be leading all consumer AI products and research for Microsoft’s series of Copilot AI assistants, as well as for the Bing search engine and the Edge browser. Here’s what to know about Suleyman:1. He’s been a quiet pioneer in AISuleyman cofounded DeepMind (now owned by Alphabet and part of Google) with his friend Demis Hassabis back in…

But there’s now a problem: the Turing test has almost been passed—it arguably already has been. The latest generation of large language models, systems that generate text with a coherence that just a few years ago would have seemed magical, are on the cusp of acing it.  So where does that leave AI? And more important, where does it leave us? The truth is, I think we’re in a moment of genuine confusion (or, perhaps more charitably, debate) about what’s really happening. Even as the Turing test falls, it doesn’t leave…