Ilya Sutskever’s OpenAI Team Built Tools to Control Superhuman AI

A new research paper out of OpenAI Thursday says a superhuman AI is coming, and the company is developing tools to ensure it doesn’t turn against humans. OpenAI’s Chief Scientist, Ilya Sutskever is listed as a lead author on the paper, but not the blog post that went with it, and his role at the … Read more

French Startup Mistral Releases AI Model That Beats GPT-3.5

Mistral AI co-founder and CEO Arthur Mensch. Photo: Nathan Laine/Bloomberg (Getty Images) While most AI companies are preciously unveiling their latest algorithms with press tours and blog posts, others seem content to throw their latest wares out into the digital ether like a pirate ship casting off dead weight. One company that fits this latter … Read more

OpenAI Chaos Delays GPT Store to 2024

OpenAI is delaying the launch of its GPT Store, a marketplace of customizable GPTs, until 2024, according to a memo seen by Axios. Sam Altman told an audience at DevDay that the GPT Store would launch in November. “Even AI Rappers are Harassed by Police” | AI Unlocked “In terms of what’s next, we are … Read more

Happy Birthday, ChatGPT

Screenshot: OpenAI Part of OpenAI’s success comes through funding from a multibillion-dollar partnership with Microsoft. It wasn’t long before the aging tech behemoth launched its own AI-powered tools in the form of a new chat feature on its unloved search engine Bing. Bing Chat (launched renamed Microsoft co-pilot) launched in February 2023. In its first … Read more

Researchers Made an IQ Test for AI, Found They’re All Pretty Stupid

There’s been a lot of talk about AGI lately—artificial general intelligence—the much-coveted AI development goal that every company in Silicon Valley is currently racing to achieve. AGI refers to a hypothetical point in the future when AI algorithms will be able to do most of the jobs that humans currently do. According to this theory … Read more

The Week When AI Got High on Its Own Supply

Photo: Justin Sullivan (Getty Images) Whatever you believe about the future of AI, there’s probably a cult out there for you. Ideological factions have been drawing lines for years and they each seem to bring pseudoreligious trappings with them. If you believe AI will inevitably kill everyone on the planet you might want to join … Read more

OpenAI Launches ChatGPT-4 Turbo During First-Ever DevDay

Sam Altman, OpenAI cofounder and CEO, revealed Chat GPT-4 Turbo at the company’s first-ever developer conference called DevDay in San Francisco Monday. The new model supports 128,000 tokens of context, equivalent to a 300-page book and sixteen times ChatGPT-4’s context limits. I Gave Sam Altman a Copy of My Eyeballs | Future Tech Altman also … Read more

Microsoft Looks to Go Nuclear to Support Energy-Hungry AI

Artificial intelligence has proved a costly endeavor—well, yes, in terms of money, but AI requires massive amounts of energy, and water consumption to operate at scale. That hasn’t stopped big tech companies such as Google and Microsoft from putting that energy-hungry AI into practically every single one of their user and enterprise end-products. Big daddy … Read more