Internal memo says Sam Altman’s firing wasn’t due to ‘malfeasance’ or OpenAI safety practices The message to staff, sent by COO Brad Lightcap, was obtained by Axios and The New York Times. Cheyenne MacDonald Sat, Nov 18, 2023 Carlos Barria / reuters An internal memo sent to OpenAI staff on Saturday after former CEO … Continue reading Internal memo says Sam Altman’s firing wasn’t due to ‘malfeasance’ or OpenAI safety practices
By Mark Sullivan November 18, 2023 There’s a theory going around about OpenAI’s mysterious firing of its high-profile CEO, Sam Altman. In essence, the hypothesis is that Altman was pushing hard to commercialize OpenAI’s research without giving proper regard to managing the safety risks of the technology. But an internal memo from OpenAI COO … Continue reading OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap: Altman was not fired for malfeasance
By Jessica Bursztynsky November 18, 2023 OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman was fired on Friday from his role as leader of the artificial intelligence company. After an attempt by investors over the weekend to get Altman rehired failed, OpenAI’s biggest investor, Microsoft, announced that it had hired him to lead a new AI research division. … Continue reading Who is OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, and what does he think about the future of AI and ChatGPT?
OpenAI looks to expand Microsoft partnership, raise funding Radek Zielinski / Nov 13, 2023 OpenAI, the maker of the popular chatbot ChatGPT, is seeking to expand its partnership with Microsoft and raise additional capital from the tech giant and other investors, according to CEO Sam Altman. In an interview with the Financial Times published … Continue reading OpenAI looks to expand Microsoft partnership, raise funding
OpenAI Says ChatGPT Can Now See, Hear, And Speak by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, September 25, 2023 Speech, voice, and vision features that OpenAI announced Monday in its ChatGPT move the technology to a conversational interface that advertising agencies and companies can build into their own platforms. The voice capability — which supports the … Continue reading OpenAI Says ChatGPT Can Now See, Hear, And Speak
By Brittany Loggins September 22, 2023 While you may think of ChatGPT as an incredibly capable AI bot, some authors are arguing that its capabilities have been built on their lives’ work. Along with the Authors Guild, more than one dozen authors filed a lawsuit against ChatGPT’s parent company, OpenAI, on Tuesday, September 19. … Continue reading 3 things to know about why authors are suing OpenAI
Google, Microsoft, OpenAI To Help Developers Use AI To Find, Fix Software Vulnerabilities by Laurie Sullivan @lauriesullivan, August 9, 2023 Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI will collaborate with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), a research and development agency within the Department of Defense (DOD), to enable competitors to develop state-of-the-art cybersecurity systems. The … Continue reading Google, Microsoft, OpenAI To Help Developers Use AI To Find, Fix Software Vulnerabilities
OpenAI Text Classifier Shuttered Based On Low Accuracy Rate by Laurie Sullivan @lauriesullivan, July 26, 2023 OpenAI as trained a classifier to distinguish between text written by a human and text written by artificial intelligence (AI). The company introduced the AI Text Classifier in late January, but this one failed to do its job. Apparently, … Continue reading OpenAI Text Classifier Shuttered Based On Low Accuracy Rate
Andrew Tarantola @terrortola For a product that its own creators, in a marketing pique, once declared “too dangerous” to release to the general public, OpenAI’s ChatGPT is seemingly everywhere these days. The versatile automated text generation (ATG) system, which is capable of outputting copy that is nearly indistinguishable from a human writer’s work, is … Continue reading FTC opens investigation into ChatGPT creator OpenAI
By Michael Grothaus April 12, 2023 Looking to make some spare cash? OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, has announced a new bug bounty program that will reward bug finders up to $20,000 for spotting vulnerabilities in its software. OpenAI says the reason it is rolling out a bug bounty program is because … Continue reading OpenAI will pay you up to $20,000 to find bugs in ChatGPT
