AI will create new jobs but some old ones may die fast: Open AI CEO Sam Altman
Wednesday, 7 June 2023 Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, creator of ChatGPT and the man at the centre of a global debate on AI, is everything you expect tech superstars to be – dressed down, cool, self-deprecating, funny, evangelical about technology and very, very smart. But as was evident during his freewheeling chat with Satyan Gajwani, vice-chairman, Times Internet Ltd – the event was part of the Economic Times Conversations series – Altman is also disarmingly honest when answering pointed questions.
Elon Musk’s Emails , Are Published by OpenAI.
Musk recently sued OpenAI for shifting from non-profit operations to a for-profit model. .
Musk recently sued OpenAI for shifting from non-profit operations to a for-profit model. .
Musk, an OpenAI co-founder and early investor, says he wants the company to get back to its original goal of creating AI for
the benefit of humanity, not revenue.
He also wants company co-founders
Sam Altman and Greg Brockman to
pay back any profit they received.
He also wants company co-founders
Sam Altman and Greg Brockman to
pay back any profit they received.
Now, the ChatGPT maker is calling Musk out, releasing redacted emails that seem to show him agreeing that the company needed to adopt a for-profit model to advance its projects.
This needs billions per year
immediately or forget it.
I really hope I’m wrong. , Elon Musk, via an email dated Dec. 26, 2018, provided by CNN.
He went on to suggest a $1 billion funding commitment and pledged to cover the remainder of whatever was not raised.
Musk ultimately contributed $45 million to OpenAI's funding, and $90 million was raised through other donors, CNN reports. .
He never fulfilled his promise
to fund the rest, CNN reports. .
We all understood we were going to need
a lot more capital to succeed at our mission —
billions of dollars per year, which was far
more than any of us, especially Elon, thought
we’d be able to raise as the non-profit, OpenAI, via blog post.
In 2019, OpenAI became a for-profit entity
and now has a $90 billion valuation.
Microsoft has committed
$13 billion to their cause.
We’re sad that it’s come to this with someone
whom we’ve deeply admired—someone
who inspired us to aim higher, then told us
we would fail, started a competitor,
and then sued us when we started
making meaningful progress towards
OpenAI’s mission without him, OpenAI, via blog post
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Elon Musk , Sues OpenAI.
Musk filed the lawsuit against OpenAI,
co-founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman,
and other entities on Feb. 29, TechCrunch reports. .
Musk filed the lawsuit against OpenAI,
co-founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman,
and other entities on Feb. 29, TechCrunch reports. .
Musk filed the lawsuit against OpenAI,
co-founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman,
and other entities on Feb. 29, TechCrunch reports. .
Musk, who is also an OpenAI co-founder
and early financial backer, .
claims that OpenAI breached an original agreement by shifting its focus to pursue profits. .
Musk says that he invested in the company under
the promise that it would operate as a non-profit working to develop AI for the benefit of humanity.
But after partnering with Microsoft and receiving
a $13 billion investment, Musk alleges that the company switched to a for-profit business model.
In reality, however, OpenAI, Inc.
has been transformed into a
closed-source de facto subsidiary
of the largest technology company
in the world: Microsoft. , Via lawsuit.
Under its new board, it is not just
developing but is actually refining
an AGI to maximize profits for
Microsoft, rather than for the
benefit of humanity, Via lawsuit.
This was a stark betrayal of
the Founding Agreement, Via lawsuit.
Musk is seeking to stop OpenAI from monetizing certain technologies and would also like the court
to rule that AI systems constitute artificial general intelligence and exceed licensing agreements.
Musk is seeking to stop OpenAI from monetizing certain technologies and would also like the court
to rule that AI systems constitute artificial general intelligence and exceed licensing agreements.
Additionally, Musk is seeking "potential restitution of donations," TechCrunch reports.
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Opponents Highlight the, Environmental Impact of , Artificial Intelligence .
VentureBeat reports that the CEO of OpenAI
has asked for $7 trillion to develop a project aimed
at dramatically increasing the world's chip capacity.
VentureBeat reports that the CEO of OpenAI
has asked for $7 trillion to develop a project aimed
at dramatically increasing the world's chip capacity.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the "wildly
ambitious" project would also vastly improve
the ability to power advanced AI models.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the "wildly
ambitious" project would also vastly improve
the ability to power advanced AI models.
However, opponents of the proposed
project have expressed concerns over
the environmental impact of Altman's plan. .
If it does work out, the amount
of natural resources that will be
required is just mind-boggling.
Even if the energy is renewable
(which it isn’t guaranteed to be),
the quantity of water and rare earth
minerals required is astronomical, Sasha Luccioni, Climate lead and researcher
at Hugging Face, via VentureBeat.
In September of 2023, 'Fortune' reported that
AI tools were responsible for a 34% spike
in Microsoft's water consumption. .
In September of 2023, 'Fortune' reported that
AI tools were responsible for a 34% spike
in Microsoft's water consumption. .
Another study from 2023 revealed
that OpenAI's training for GPT-3
consumed 700,000 liters of water.
Another study from 2023 revealed
that OpenAI's training for GPT-3
consumed 700,000 liters of water.
Sasha Luccioni, climate lead and researcher at Hugging
Face, has criticized Nvidia for a lack of transparency
regarding the company's environmental footprint.
Sasha Luccioni, climate lead and researcher at Hugging
Face, has criticized Nvidia for a lack of transparency
regarding the company's environmental footprint.
Nvidia has yet to publish
any information about
the environmental footprint
of their manufacturing, Sasha Luccioni, Climate lead and researcher
at Hugging Face, via VentureBeat.
Luccioni points out that rather than
improving over time, transparency regarding
the environmental impact of AI has gotten worse.
If you look at the PaLM 1 paper
from Google, which was in 2022,
and then Palm 2 [released in May
2023], the amount of information
they provided drastically dropped, Sasha Luccioni, Climate lead and researcher
at Hugging Face, via VentureBeat.
Now [companies] don’t even say
how long it took [to train], how many
chips they used, there’s absolutely
no information provided anymore, Sasha Luccioni, Climate lead and researcher
at Hugging Face, via VentureBeat
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AI Automation Could Displace 8 Million, Workers in the UK, Report Warns.
'The Guardian' reports that nearly 8 million jobs
in the United Kingdom could be lost in a potential
artificial intelligence "jobs apocalypse.".
'The Guardian' reports that nearly 8 million jobs
in the United Kingdom could be lost in a potential
artificial intelligence "jobs apocalypse.".
According to a report by The Institute for Public Policy
Research (IPPR), younger workers, women and lower-
wage workers stand to lose the most to AI automation.
According to a report by The Institute for Public Policy
Research (IPPR), younger workers, women and lower-
wage workers stand to lose the most to AI automation.
The IPPR's report found that entry-level, part-time
and administrative jobs face the highest risk of
being replaced by AI in a "worst-case scenario.".
Over the next three to five years, the thinktank
warns that more companies will use generative AI
technology to automate everyday workplace tasks.
The IPPR found that 11% of tasks currently
done by workers are at risk.
This includes database management, scheduling and
stocktaking, which could displace entry-level workers in the
secretarial, administrative and customer service sectors.
This includes database management, scheduling and
stocktaking, which could displace entry-level workers in the
secretarial, administrative and customer service sectors.
The IPPR warns that the number
could increase to 59% of tasks in a
second wave if AI technology is developed
to handle more and more complex tasks. .
The second wave could impact higher-earning jobs
that involve less routine tasks surrounding database
creation, copywriting and graphic design. .
The IPPR warns that women , "are more likely to work in the most
exposed occupations, such as secretarial
and administrative occupations.".
According to the report, the worst-case
scenario for the second wave of AI could impact
7.9 million jobs, which would negate productivity
gains with zero growth in GDP for up to five years.
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Courtney B. Vance shares his concerns over A.I. and gushes over his wife Angela Bassett at the NAACP Image Awards, calling her "the greatest actress of our generation."
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NVIDIA Sued , Over AI Copyright Infringement.
Authors have sued NVIDIA over NeMo, the company's AI language model that helps to create and train chatbots, Engadget reports.
Authors have sued NVIDIA over NeMo, the company's AI language model that helps to create and train chatbots, Engadget reports.
According to authors Abdi Nazemian,
Brian Keene and Stewart O'Nan, their
books were illegally used to train the AI.
They are seeking a jury trial and want NIVIDIA to pay damages and destroy the dataset that powers NeMo's large language models.
According to the authors, the Books3
dataset copied Bibliotek, a shadow library containing 196,640 pirated books.
In sum, NVIDIA has admitted
training its NeMo Megatron models
on a copy of The Pile dataset. , Via lawsuit against NVIDIA.
Therefore, NVIDIA necessarily also
trained its NeMo Megatron models
on a copy of Books3, because
Books3 is part of The Pile. , Via lawsuit against NVIDIA.
Certain books written by Plaintiffs
are part of Books3— including
the Infringed Works—, Via lawsuit against NVIDIA.
... and thus NVIDIA necessarily trained
its NeMo Megatron models on one or
more copies of the Infringed Works,
thereby directly infringing the
copyrights of the Plaintiffs, Via lawsuit against NVIDIA.
NVIDIA responded to the suit, telling 'The Wall Street Journal,' "we respect the rights of all content creators and believe we created NeMo in full compliance with copyright law.".
OpenAI and Microsoft were hit
with a similar lawsuit last year.
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February Layoffs , Hit Highest Level Since 2009.
According to a report released by
Challenger, Gray & Christmas on March 7, companies cut 84,638 jobs in February.
That number represents a 3% increase
from January and a 9% jump
year-over-year, Fox Business reports.
As we navigate the start of 2024, we're
witnessing a persistent wave of layoffs. , Andy Challenger, senior vice president of
Challenger, Gray & Christmas, via Fox Business.
Businesses are aggressively slashing
costs and embracing technological
innovations, actions that are
significantly reshaping staffing needs, Andy Challenger, senior vice president of
Challenger, Gray & Christmas, via Fox Business.
Tech companies had the most
layoffs in February, over 12,000.
The sector has cut over 28,000 jobs since the beginning of 2024, Fox Business reports. .
Financial firms lost over 26,000 jobs
since the beginning of the year.
That is a 54% increase in layoffs for the sector compared to the same time last year.
Other sectors to experience significant layoffs this year include manufacturing, energy and education.
In light of the backlash some companies
have faced for directly attributing job
cuts to artificial intelligence, , Andy Challenger, senior vice president of
Challenger, Gray & Christmas, via Fox Business.
... they appear to be framing this
shift as a ‘technological update’
rather than an outright substitution
of human roles with AI, Andy Challenger, senior vice president of
Challenger, Gray & Christmas, via Fox Business.
In truth, companies are also
implementing robotics and
automation in addition to AI. , Andy Challenger, senior vice president of
Challenger, Gray & Christmas, via Fox Business.
It's worth noting that last year alone,
AI was directly cited in 4,247 job
reductions, suggesting a growing
impact on companies’ workforces, Andy Challenger, senior vice president of
Challenger, Gray & Christmas, via Fox Business
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This year at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona the artificial intelligence is centre stage. It feels like we are entering in a new era of technology thanks to AI capabilities and how fast can change our lives.
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Meta, Adding Label to, AI-Generated Content .
NPR reports that AI-generated images on Instagram,
Facebook and Threads may come with a disclaimer,
clearly stating that they are not real images. .
NPR reports that AI-generated images on Instagram,
Facebook and Threads may come with a disclaimer,
clearly stating that they are not real images. .
Meta has said that the AI-generated
label will be rolled out on all of the
company's platforms in the coming months.
The decision comes amid growing pressure on tech
companies to address the potential for deception
that comes with rapidly developing AI technology.
As the difference between
human and synthetic content
gets blurred, people want to
know where the boundary lies, Nick Clegg, Meta's president of global affairs, via NPR.
People are often coming across
AI-generated content for the first
time and our users have told us
they appreciate transparency
around this new technology. , Nick Clegg, Meta's president of global affairs, via NPR.
So it's important that we
help people know when
photorealistic content they're
seeing has been created using AI, Nick Clegg, Meta's president of global affairs, via NPR.
The system relies upon invisible markers,
like metadata and watermarks, that
identify content that is generated by AI. .
The labels will reportedly apply to images
generated by AI tools owned by Google, Microsoft,
OpenAI, Adobe, Midjourney and Shutterstock. .
The labels will reportedly apply to images
generated by AI tools owned by Google, Microsoft,
OpenAI, Adobe, Midjourney and Shutterstock. .
The labels will reportedly apply to images
generated by AI tools owned by Google, Microsoft,
OpenAI, Adobe, Midjourney and Shutterstock. .
NPR reports that this leaves gaps
for other image generators,
including open-source AI tools.
To compensate for this, Meta said it is working on tools
that will be able to automatically detect AI-generated
content, even without watermarks or metadata.
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