Tech giants, including Apple, Samsung, Google, and Microsoft, are heavily investing in research and development of artificial intelligence (AI), underlying the beginning of an era dominated by AI-powered devices. Apple is leading the brigade with new AI features expected to launch with the iOS 18 in September 2024. The features, some consolidated under "Apple Intelligence,"…
Ilya Sutskever, a co-founder and former chief scientist at OpenAI, has announced the launch of his new venture, Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI), alongside co-founders Daniel Gross from Y Combinator and Daniel Levy, an ex-OpenAI engineer. The new venture’s mission is to the development of a safe and reliable superintelligent AI, systems that match or exceed…
OpenAI, the prominent artificial intelligence research institution, has recently made the notable move of appointing retired General Paul Nakasone, former head of the National Security Agency (NSA), to its board of directors. This move follows intense criticism of OpenAI for its handling of AI safety concerns, which resulted in the disbanding of its superalignment team…
Tech mogul Elon Musk has retracted his lawsuit against OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman. Initially filed in 2023, the lawsuit accused OpenAI of deviation from its founding mission of developing AI for humanity's benefit rather than monetary gain. Allegedly, OpenAI was bought over by tech powerhouse Microsoft and was transforming its AGI to maximize…
Former and current employees of OpenAI and Google have raised concerns about a culture of secrecy surrounding the potential risks of advanced AI within AI companies. The group, who wrote a letter titled “A right to warn about advanced artificial intelligence”, argue that these companies prioritize their financial gains over safety, and use punitive confidentiality…
OpenAI’s chat robot, ChatGPT, experienced a massive global outage on 11th of 2024 that gripped the platform for five hours, leaving users unable to use the chat service. The problem, affecting web, desktop, and mobile app users, first appeared around 02:30 Eastern Time (ET). The situation was provisionally fixed by 07:45 ET, only for the…
The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) established the ChatGPT Taskforce a year ago to evaluate the compliance of OpenAI, an artificial intelligence firm, with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) laws when handling personal data. The Taskforce recently released a preliminary report on its findings. The GDPR laws stipulate how companies can and cannot use…
OpenAI has made strides in artificial intelligence development with its latest model, Generative Pre-trained Transformer 4 Omni (GPT-4o). Unlike its predecessors, this model is the first designed to offer effective interface through voice and video, revolutionizing how users interact with AI. GPT-4o can process and generate both text and images and makes use of tone…
Earlier this week, Scarlett Johansson accused OpenAI of stealing her voice for the voice option 'Sky' in the company's new artificial intelligence, GPT-4. The story instantly went viral, and the voice option 'Sky' was subsequently pulled from the AI system.
The author of the article adds personal insight, stating that they have been in frequent…
This week, Scarlett Johansson and Sam Altman, President of OpenAI, became a hot topic on social media after Johansson claimed that OpenAI had misappropriated her voice for use on its artificial voice model, GPT-4. The voice option named 'Sky' had been withdrawn from ChatGPT shortly before.
The author of the piece refutes the claim, having interacted…