According to an exclusive report by Reuters, several OpenAI researchers sent a letter to the board of directors warning of a new AI discovery that posed potential risks to humanity shortly before the firing of CEO Sam Altman.
ChatGPT developer OpenAI has gone through a major controversy following the firing of co-founder and CEO Sam Altman, leading to conflicting explanations and widespread anger among its employees. Although the crisis has passed with the rehiring of Altman, deep questions remain about how and why the company abruptly dumped its CEO.
Sam Altman has been reinstated as CEO of ChatGPT developer OpenAI just five days after his sudden dismissal from the organization. The move comes after more than 700 OpenAI employees threatened to quit if Altman wasn’t reinstated at the AI powerhouse.
OpenAI co-founder and chief scientist Ilya Sutskever reportedly played a pivotal role in the recent dismissal of CEO Sam Altman, marking a significant shift in the organization’s leadership dynamics that may have major long-term negative consequences for the AI powerhouse. Immediately after the decisions and the weekend of chaos it caused, Sutskever claimed to regret the decision on social medial.
A recent study found that the OpenAI’s GPT-4 AI chatbot can not only pass the ethics exam required by nearly every state in order to practice law, but also outperforms most of the people who take the test.
Forward Health is launching the “CarePod,” a self-contained, AI-powered doctor’s office that people can access in malls and office buildings.
Civitai, an online marketplace for AI models, has recently introduced a controversial feature allowing users to post “bounties” for creating deepfake images of real people, including normal people without significant public presence. Creators earn money for completing the bounties, which may be used for deepfake porn or other nefarious purposes.
Crooks and scammers are having a field day thanks to the advent of AI technologies used for cloning voices and extracting personal information from social media platforms. Cybercriminals are using AI to create convincing copies of young people’s voices, which are used to power “grandparent scams” targeting elderly relatives.
“Controligarchs” reveals the dystopian systems and tactics that Klaus Schwab’s World Economic Forum (WEF) has used to achieve global political power and social control.
Amazon is reportedly building its own powerful AI system, codenamed Olympus, to compete with OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google Bard, and other popular AI platforms. The company hopes to integrate Olympus into its e-commerce platform and even Alexa to “enhance” the smart home assistant’s performance.
Elon Musk has debuted the first product from his artificial intelligence company, xAI. Called “Grok,” Musk says the AI chatbot will have a “rebellious streak” and answer “spicy questions” that other AI chatbots like ChatGPT might avoid.
Former President Barack Obama played a significant role in drafting President Joe Biden’s executive order on AI, according to aides familiar with the creation of the order, which prioritizes “equity” and “civil rights” in AI.
Grammy Award-winning singer Sheryl Crow says she is “really scared” of artificial intelligence (AI) being used in the entertainment industry.
Speaking at an AI safety summit in London organized by the United Kingdom, Vice President Kamala Harris took the opportunity to speak about a top concern of the global world order: the possibility that AI might amplify and empower information that they would rather suppress.
Oscar-nominated actress Scarlett Johansson is taking legal action against an artificial intelligence (AI) app that cloned her likeness for an advertisement without permission.
A New Jersey high school is grappling with the fallout from a scandal involving AI-generated explicit images of female students circulated by their male peers. It is just the latest example of the disastrous consequences of unrestrained AI on American culture.
President Joe Biden reportedly became more alarmed about artificial intelligence technology after watching the latest Mission: Impossible movie, starring Tom Cruise.
Vast swaths of the federal bureaucracy are bought and paid for by Big Tech, laundered through “consulting” agreements and nonprofit grant programs. The latest—and by far the scariest—way that Joe Biden intends to accelerate this trend is with artificial intelligence (A.I.).
President Joe Biden released an executive order aimed at regulating the artificial intelligence (AI) industry today, which includes a provision that AI must advance the goals of “civil rights” and “equity” — aka, the left’s diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) framework.
The Biden White House will issue an executive order on Monday in an early effort to regulate the AI industry, per reports.
A new data “poisoning” tool is reportedly giving artists the ability to fight back against generative AI, causing artificial intelligence training data to become scrambled when tech giants scrape their original work. As one artist explains, “It is going to make [AI companies] think twice, because they have the possibility of destroying their entire model by taking our work without our consent.”
The world of robocalling is evolving, with generative AI now enabling scammers to mimic the voices of people we know, making fraudulent calls seem more trustworthy and heightening the risk of successful scams.
Pedophiles are using AI to generate “astoundingly realistic” child sexual abuse images that many people may find “indistinguishable” from real pictures, an online safety group has warned.
Giant music publishers including Universal Music have taken legal action against artificial intelligence startup Anthropic, accusing it of unlawfully using copyrighted song lyrics to enhance its chatbot technology.
Web Summit CEO Paddy Cosgrave has stepped down from his position following a storm of controversy stirred by his remarks on Israel and Hamas.
The lead defense attorney for convicted rapper Prakazrel “Pras” Michel, from the hip hop group Fugees, reportedly used an experimental AI program to generate his botched closing argument. A new legal filing argues that, “The closing argument was deficient, unhelpful and a missed opportunity that prejudiced the defense.”
Democrat Mayor Eric Adams of New York City is embracing AI to campaign, using voice cloning tech to make robocalls directly to communities in their native languages. Boasting of his AI robocalling tool, Adams claims, “People stop me on the street all the time and they say ‘I didn’t know you speak Mandarin.'”
Inflection AI, a prominent artificial intelligence startup, is spearheading an initiative to curtail the role of AI chatbots in political elections, ensuring that the democratic process remains fundamentally human. This is particularly important as popular chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT display a brazen leftist bias.
Vice News reports that the field of generative AI and popular tools like ChatGPT and DALL-E are being scrutinized as instances of misuse and ethical dilemmas become more apparent. In short, tech companies are creating AI chaos often aimed at kids, and none of them seem particularly concerned about the fallout.
Frustrated with chip shortages, the company behind ChatGPT, OpenAI, is considering entering the chip manufacturing market itself, with various options including the acquisition of another chip manufacturing company on the table, per a report in Reuters.
Supermarket giant Kroger is spearheading a novel approach to fighting theft and errors at self-checkout lanes by deploying AI and camera technology, sparking a debate on customer experience, ethics, and privacy even as prominent chains dealing with massive shoplifting problems carefully watch how technology contributes to solving the problem.
Geoffrey Hinton, a pivotal figure in artificial intelligence development known as the “godfather of AI,” recently discussed the double-edged sword of AI, highlighting its remarkable capabilities and the looming uncertainties and ethical challenges that humanity must navigate.
Likewise, a startup backed by creepy Bill Gates, is launching an AI chatbot that offers users personalized recommendations for movies, books, television shows, and podcasts.
Nearly half of CEOs surveyed believe AI could — and should — replace them in their jobs.
China and Russia are reportedly using AI chatbots to control information and push government propaganda, posing a new threat to online freedom. Woke Silicon Valley giants that have already built leftist bias into their own offerings like ChatGPT are likely watching carefully to see how hostile foreign powers wield AI as an information weapon before the 2024 presidential election.
A recent study by Harvard University and Boston Consulting Group (BCG) sheds light on the impact of AI in the workplace, revealing its potential to both enhance and negatively affect productivity and efficiency. The study found that AI can enhance performance, but also that overreliance greatly increases the chances of finding wrong answers.
A sophisticated and twisted new phone scam is targeting parents in New York City, with fraudsters utilizing advanced AI to mimic the distressed voices of their target’s children. One woman who was scammed by a call seeming to come from her 14-year-old daughter crying and claiming to have been arrested explains, “I’m aware it was really stupid – and I’m not a stupid person – but when you hear your child’s voice, screaming, crying, it just puts you on a different level.”
Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook (now known as Meta) has launched AI chatbots modeled after a laundry list of celebrities and influencers including Tom Brady, Snoop Dogg, and YouTube star Mr. Beast. Zuckerberg believes that interacting with AI chatbots featuring the personalities of celebrities will popularize AI on Facebook’s platforms.
Microsoft’s AI-powered Bing Chat has recently fallen prey to a sophisticated malware advertising campaign, with malicious ads infiltrating conversations and directing users to fake download sites known to distribute malware.
The rise of AI girlfriends is ruining an entire generation of young men by fostering a silent epidemic of loneliness, according to Washington University Professor of Data Science Liberty Vittert.
