Ai Artificial Intelligence Archive

We have some matters to take care of before we get the jury back.

Sam Altman considered a similar structure to Google’s Alphabet, which separates its core search business from ventures like Verily (health) and Waymo (self-driving cars), The Wall Street Journal reports. OpenAI has been cutting back on side quests ahead of a potential IPO and could revive spinout plans later on, the report says.

The Trump Administration’s rollback of AI safety regulations may not extend to itself, as the NYT reports that after the launch of Mythos, officials are concerned about “…political repercussions if a devastating A.I.-enabled cyberattack were to occur,” said sources.

Just before they left, Jared Birchall’s testimony regarding the funding of the bid to buy OpenAI — the subject of last week’s drama — was struck.

In Brockman’s telling, Altman was around a lot more often than Musk. The gee-whiz energy here is off the charts, including a pre-launch story about the group being stuck in traffic for an hour and a half and not noticing because they were having such a good time.

From Sutskever’s texts to Brockman:

When Brockman was leaving Stripe, he told Altman “I’m thinking about doing an AI thing” and Altman said, “I’m also thinking about doing an AI thing” and “then we kept in touch.” They went to a dinner in Menlo Park — Musk arrived an hour late — to talk about AGI, then Brockman caught a ride home with Altman.

Asked what he does as president of OpenAI, that’s how Brockman responded. God I hate hearing millennial slang in the courtroom. Sooo I did a thing… for $30 billion.