The Verge’s Josh Dzieza appeared on Vox’s Today, Explained podcast to discuss his recent report on the human element involved in creating the AI tools everyone is talking about lately.
As he wrote then, “a vast tasker underclass is emerging — and not going anywhere.”
The OpenAI CEO said to The Atlantic that GPT and AI must be regulated to curb its more dangerous tendencies.... but he also talked about plans to build AI tools that interact with the physical world, building models that independently make scientific discoveries, and said he has no plans to slow down OpenAI’s growth.
However, Altman’s quest for regulation could limit who can work on large AI models, further entrenching the technology to only a few companies, with OpenAI chief among them.
Altman’s views about the likelihood of AI triggering a global class war, or the prudence of experimenting with more autonomous agent AIs, or the overall wisdom of looking on the bright side, a view that seems to color all the rest—these are uniquely his, and if he is right about what’s coming, they will assume an outsize influence in shaping the way that all of us live. No single person, or single company, or cluster of companies residing in a particular California valley, should steer the kind of forces that Altman is imagining summoning.
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Following user complaints of GPT-4 becoming “slower and dumber,” OpenAI said it made improvements to APIs on the latest model.
The company asked users to send in evaluations so they can continue to improve its models.
We are working hard to ensure that new versions result in improvements across a comprehensive range of tasks. That said, our evaluation methodology isn’t perfect, and we’re constantly improving it.
Months after we heard Google founder Sergey Brin made a reappearance at Google amidst the rise of ChatGPT, now a report from The Wall Street Journal suggests Brin’s return might be more permanent than we thought.
Sources tell the WSJ that Brin has been visiting Google’s offices three to four days per week to help build Google’s Gemini AI model. Brin has not only “convened weekly discussions of new AI research with Google employees,” but has also taken point in “the hiring of sought-after researchers,” the WSJ reports.
