… There’s enough evidence in her meeting notes to suggest she routinely held back information from OpenAI on Musk’s behalf — xAI would be no different. I also don’t believe that she didn’t give Musk information about the Microsoft deals she approved while sitting on OpenAI’s board. …
… Other research has found that this process, known as “cognitive offloading,” has a wide range of negative impacts on humans, including diminishing people’s skepticism and their ability to discern truth from deception, leading to “heightened manipulation and weakened democratic decision-making proce… …
… Amazon Alexa Plus can now create AI-generated podcasts Emma Roth May 18 Revamped Siri will reportedly offer autodeleting chats Terrence O'Brien May 17 University of Arizona students boo Eric Schmidt’s AI cheerleading during commencement Terrence O'Brien May 17 Terrence O'Brien May 17 Seth Rogen say… …
… 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. …
… Having an AI software stack means being able to deploy AI agents into that data to better organize it — with fewer concerns about leakage than there would be with general-purpose third-party LLMs. “Training AI models on public data is the largest, fastest-growing business in history,” Ellison said … …
… How did that come about? It was fascinating. And there are certain limitations of what I can talk about. Again, Shannon and her team were the real heroes on this. …