Elon Musk’s xAI secures $6B in bid to rival ChatGPT by end of year
Despite an eight-year headstart, xAI’s Grok could become a chatGPT competitor by the end of 2024, according to Musk. Go to Source
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Former Google China boss doubles down: AI to take 50% of jobs by 2027
Kai-Fu Lee predicted the modern AI zeitgeist back when OpenAI was a non-profit building chatbots. Go to Source
Elon Musk reportedly building ‘Gigafactory of Compute’ for AI
Musk recently said he expected xAI to catch up to OpenAI and DeepMind Google by the end of 2024. Go to Source
EU says ChatGPT outputs too much false information to comply with rules
While the assessment remains ongoing, OpenAI appears to have made little in the way of progress since 2023. Go to Source
Elon says AI will ‘do everything better than you,’ make employment obsolete
Despite having fathered at least 10 children, Musk also seems to think humans will struggle to find meaning in their lives without employment. Go to Source
OpenAI leadership responds to former employee safety allegations
The company’s head of alignment, Jan Leike, resigned on May 17, stating they’d reached a “breaking point” with management. Go to Source
‘Godfather of AI’ advises UK government to start UBI
Geoffrey Hinton also warns that advanced AI could pose an existential threat within the next five to twenty years. Go to Source
Sony warns 700 AI devs, music streaming companies against content misuse
Sony is cracking down on AI developers like OpenAI and Microsoft with a letter that prohibits them from using its content to train or develop commercial AI systems. Go to Source
Vitalik Buterin says GPT-4 has passed the Turing Test
Buterin’s comments reference new research indicating most humans can no longer tell when they’re talking to a machine. Go to Source
Openai Co-Founder Ilya Sutskever Steps Down, Jakub Pachocki Named New Chief Scientist
Ilya Sutskever, a co-founder and the chief scientist at Openai, announced his departure from the company after nearly a decade to work on a “personally meaningful” project, without specifying further details. Jakub Pachocki, previously the director of research at Openai since 2017 and the lead on the development of the GPT-4 large language model, has … Read more
