In a matter of two months, hopes for the Rabbit R1 and Humane AI devices crashed and burned. They presented radical new form factors and promised to break our addiction to screens but when we finally got our hands on them, they were totally busted. Some people, however, aren’t ready to let go of the …
In a matter of two months, hopes for the Rabbit R1 and Humane AI devices crashed and burned. They presented radical new form factors and promised to break our addiction to screens but when we finally got our hands on them, they were totally busted. Some people, however, aren’t ready to let go of the …
The OpenAI board members who fired Sam Altman in November 2023 reportedly did so because, “We just couldn’t believe things that Sam was telling us.” So said one of those people, former OpenAI board member Helen Toner, while speaking on a podcast called The TED AI Show, Bloomberg reported Tuesday (May 28). Toner said during …
The latest advances in artificial intelligence (AI) that have been presented this past week aren’t trivial. So, where are things heading? Demis Hassabis, director of Google DeepMind, the company’s research division, is clear in his response: “Towards artificial general intelligence (AGI), which equals or surpasses human intelligence.” Over the last decade, we’ve had devices — …
Topline OpenAI could face a potential lawsuit from actress Scarlett Johansson after she claimed the ChatGPT maker’s now pulled chatbot voice Sky sounded eerily similar to herself, the latest legal issue raised by artificial intelligence that experts told Forbes could easily affect anyone now technology has made voice cloning easier. Scarlett Johansson attends ‘Her’ Premiere …
In July 2023, OpenAI unveiled a new team dedicated to ensuring that future AI systems that might be more intelligent than all humans combined could be safely controlled. To signal how serious the company was about this goal, it publicly promised to dedicate 20% of its then-available computing resources to the effort. Now, less than …
OpenAI pulled one of the voices from its latest iteration of ChatGPT after it drew comparisons to actress Scarlett Johansson and her role in the science fiction film, “Her.” The tech company unveiled a demonstration of its new GPT-4o voice-enabled chatbot last week, which is set for public release in the coming days. The new …
“This is the first time that we are really making a huge step forward when it comes to the ease of use,” Murati said. OpenAI, backed by Microsoft, has been valued by more than $80 billion by investors. The company, founded in 2015, is under pressure to stay on top of the generative AI market …
On Friday, advanced nuclear fission company Oklo, for which Sam Altman serves as chairman, started trading on the New York Stock Exchange. The company, which has yet to generate any revenue, went public through a special purpose acquisition company called AltC Acquisition Corp., founded and led by Altman. Under the ticker symbol “OKLO,” shares were …
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman during the OpenAI DevDay event on November 06, 2023 in San Francisco, California. Photo: Justin Sullivan (Getty Images) An energy startup aimed at cleaning up artificial intelligence’s massive use of electricity is getting a multi-million dollar boost from investors, including the AI industry’s top leader. TSMC beat on Q2 sales expectations …