… All this points toward Microsoft’s AI future as a mix of models developed internally and by OpenAI, Anthropic, and others. It leaves Microsoft and OpenAI with a partnership that’s a lot more about finances than close collaboration on the future of AI. …
… Internally, employees have voiced dissent in ways that strongly echo the pushback against Project Maven almost a decade ago. Externally, OpenAI’s Pentagon deal sparked widespread controversy, leading CEO Sam Altman to announce he was attempting to renegotiate the deal. …
… The company has built its reputation and success on being willing and able to test, fail, and iterate again, and on not being afraid of controversy or of pouring money into projects like Starship that may never really be financially viable on their own. …
… As Olah’s appearance suggests, the pope’s missive describes AI as a technology that can have positive applications, and its tone earned mixed reactions. “I’m glad it’s critical of the AI companies though I think it should be more so,” Daniel Kokotajlo, an AI researcher and former OpenAI employee wh… …
… 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… …
… Alyssa Cass, a spokeswoman for the Bores campaign, said that they’d initially thought it would be harder to make voters care about AI safety. “AI regulation is his strength, but it’s gonna take us a lot of work to make this a salient issue in the district,” she told The Verge. “And they, starting i… …
… You can’t spell “antichrist” without “AI” Of all the things that would have fractured the religious right’s alliance with Donald Trump, it would be him posting an AI-generated image of himself styled as Jesus Christ, healing the sick and surrounded by heavenly angels — only hours after attacking Po… …
… According to a guidance from the US Copyright Office on the legal authorship of AI-generated images, “No matter how many times a prompt is revised and resubmitted, the final output reflects the user’s acceptance of the AI system’s interpretation, rather than authorship of the expression it contains… …
… We have all kinds of internal automations. We have the ability for designers, product managers, or anybody else to prompt a change to the code base that will then automatically get put into the queue to be tested and reviewed by AI and ultimately approved by a person. So, we’re super heavy AI users. …
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