… 749 In a January 2018 email exchange between Musk, Altman, Brockman, and Sutskever, with Zilis CC’ed, Musk writes of his concerns about Google Deepmind’s advancement in AI. He writes, “OpenAl is on a path of certain failure relative to Google. …
… But Google’s Townsend defended the company’s record thus far. “To the best of our ability, we are accounting for the offsite water footprint,” Townsend said, “and I think we’ve made significant progress in reducing or eliminating the water footprint of that supply chain through our waterless renewa… …
This week we’ve got tandem hands-ons with Google’s new Gemini AI agent — Spark — from my colleagues David Pierce and Jay Peters. …
… The Google head disagreed with Musk and his cofounders “extolling the virtues of open sourcing AI.” Hassabis wrote that it was “actually very dangerous,” adding, “I presume you realise that this is not some sort of panacea that will somehow magically solve the AI problem?” A handful of months later… …
… At last week’s Android Show, Google announced an upcoming feature to create your own widgets with a prompt — Google’s examples include widgets that highlight certain weather metrics or suggest new recipes to try. …
… Instead, Apple marketed AI as a pragmatic, helpful addition to the devices people already own. “Some appear to be racing forward, pursuing AI for the sake of AI… at Apple, our mission has always been to turn the potential of advanced technology into helpful and intuitive products for everyone,” sai… …
… In 2015, Altman said he’d been mulling over whether anything could “stop humanity from developing AI” — and after concluding it was impossible, that he wanted “someone other than google to do it first.” Fellow cofounders Greg Brockman and Ilya Sutskever so strongly opposed one-person control that t… …
… In April 2018, about 4,000 employees signed a petition demanding that Google remove itself from the “business of war.” The letter said a Google executive had assured Googlers their tech “will not ‘operate or fly drones’ and ‘will not be used to launch weapons.’” But “while this eliminates a narrow … …
… Products were first rebranded as Nest by Google, then Google Nest. The Nest app is still available, but it’s in maintenance mode. It works with older products, but you can’t pair it with new ones. Image: The Charge 6 in 2023 was the last Fitbit hardware before the Air earlier this week. …
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