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| Sam Altman / @sama: |
Sam Altman says he is embarrassed that there was a provision about potential equity cancellation in exit docs, and OpenAI never took back anyone's vested equity — in regards to recent stuff about how openai handles equity: we have never clawed back anyone's vested equity, nor will we do that if people do not sign a separation agreement (or don't agree to a non-disparagement agreement). vested equity is vested equity, full stop. there was
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Forums: Hacker News and r/OpenAI
| Greg Brockman / @gdb: |
Sam Altman and Greg Brockman respond to Jan Leike, say they've raised awareness of the risks and opportunities of AGI, will keep doing safety research, and more — We're really grateful to Jan for everything he's done for OpenAI, and we know he'll continue to contribute to the mission from outside. In light of the questions his departure has raised, we wanted to explain a bit about how we think about our overall strategy. First, we have
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| Steven Levy / Wired: |
Despite some skeptics claiming that AI is an industry-wide delusion, last week's demos from OpenAI and Google show that the rate of AI progress is not slowing — Some pundits suggest generative AI stopped getting smarter. The explosive demos from OpenAI and Google that started the week show there's plenty more disruption to come.
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| Ben Cohen / Wall Street Journal: |
A profile of Shoichiro Irimajiri, one of Japan's most admired business leaders who, as a Sega executive, saved Nvidia in the 1990s with a $5M investment — It's a $2 trillion company today. It wouldn't exist without someone known as Irimajiri-san. — Before it was one of the world's …
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| Financial Times: |
Chinese firms are selling “AI-in-a-box” products for companies to run on premises; Huawei estimates the Chinese market for such machines will hit ~$2.3B in 2024 — Huawei leads trend of providing companies with means to power their own artificial intelligence apps rather than through public cloud| Steve Lohr / New York Times: |
DRAM inventor Robert H. Dennard, who also devised a concept known as Dennard scaling that was complementary to Moore's Law, died on April 23 at age 91 — He invented DRAM, the technology that allowed for the faster and higher-capacity memory storage that is the basis for modern computing.| Cassandra Willyard / MIT Technology Review: |
Researchers are working on sophisticated robots that use AI to converse and play games with people suffering from cognitive disorders like dementia — Researchers are using AI and technological advancements to create companion robots … Last week, I scoured the internet in search of a robotic dog.| Nitish Pahwa / Slate: |
How bots monopolizing DeviantArt's promotional and revenue apparatuses and the platform's unwillingness to address the issue are driving artists to abandon it — Once a vibrant platform for artists, DeviantArt is now buckling under the weight of bots and greed—and spurning the creative community that made it great.
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
MSI Claw handheld review: comfortable grips and not very buggy but bad performance by Intel Core Ultra, weak battery, and Windows holds back handheld gaming — Steer clear. … No one should buy an MSI Claw. It's not technically broken: the first 7-inch Intel Core Ultra handheld gaming PC … | Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: |
A profile of Netflix co-CEO Greg Peters, who led the company's successful crackdown on password sharing and is now pushing a focus on live programming — Now all he's got to figure out is live programming, sports, gaming, pricing and, oh, advertising. — In mid-February, Greg Peters …
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| Lisa Feldman Barrett / Wall Street Journal: |
Training AI on stereotypical facial expressions is bound to mislead because scientific evidence indicates that there are no universal expressions of emotion — Training algorithms on stereotypical facial expressions is bound to mislead. — Imagine that you are interviewing for a job.
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| Pranshu Verma / Washington Post: |
A look at an ISIS-affiliated media program called News Harvest, which is using AI-generated news anchors to disseminate extremist propaganda quickly and cheaply — The Islamic State-affiliated media broadcast News Harvest shows how artificial intelligence can be used to disseminate extremist propaganda quickly and cheaply.
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