In a highly guarded room, authors suing OpenAI will be able to view its confidential training data. This sounds like no fun. The training data of OpenAI will be made available to authors who are suing the company for copyright infringement, but only in a strictly restricted space. Lawyers for writers Sarah Silverman,…
Google Spent $2.7 Billion to Recuperate One AI Scientist “It’s obvious that Noam is a wonderful person there. Is he a hundred times better than everyone else? Rehiring AI guru Noam Shazeer reportedly cost Google $2.7 billion, an incredible sum of money for just one computer scientist’s knowledge. Shazeer left Google in…
It’s concerning that the most advanced AIs are most likely to lie. Study Discovers Artificial intelligence (AI) is “getting better at pretending to be knowledgeable.” Those who appear to be intelligent should be avoided as they have the ability to tell the most compelling lies. This reasoning appears to hold true for huge language models…
Professor is horrified when students in an ethics course use ChatGPT to create “Briefly Introduce Yourself” assignments. “Impossible to be pessimistic enough about it to be honest.” An icebreaker It’s no secret that more and more students are using ChatGPT to write essays and do homework assignments. Instructors are also starting to use the program…
OpenAI Execs Mass Quit as Company Removes Control From Non-Profit Board and Hands It to Sam Altman It’s a massive shakeup. ChatGPT maker OpenAI is losing even more executives right as Reuters reports that it’s looking to restructure its core business and wrestle control away from its non-profit board. The restructuring could…
Billionaire Drinks Margaritas and Forecasts AI Will Displace the Most Needy Workers “It’s a tough situation that’ll affect the poor, the less educated.” Updated to make clear that instead of terminating full-time employees, Duolingo fired contractors. The creator of the well-known language-learning program Duolingo is unafraid of the automation of work in the…
