The job requires the ‘ability to recognize, express, and shift between emotions in a way that feels authentic and human.’
The AI startup, founded by ex-OpenAI executive Mira Murati, will team up with Nvidia on a “long-term gigawatt scale strategic partnership” to power TML’s AI model training. The news comes after multiple founding members of the startup left for OpenAI at the same time earlier this year.
[Thinking Machines Lab]
The tool, which OpenAI said is used by 25 percent of Fortune 500 companies, helps “identify and remediate vulnerabilities in AI systems during development.”
[OpenAI]
ChatGPT’s long-promised “adult mode” is still on the way, but will miss its planned Q1 launch. For some, that means the long, lonely wait continues.
pretendworld:
reading the news that your new girlfriend has been delayed must be just brutal
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Elon Musk’s short-lived agency rolled into the NEH with the mandate to cancel grants that it deemed contrary to Donald Trump’s anti-DEI agenda. According to the New York Times, decisions about which grants to cancel weren’t made after careful analysis and deliberation. Instead, they were made with a ChatGPT prompt.
… instead of looking closely at funded projects, they pulled short summaries off the internet and fed them into the A.I. chatbot.
The prompt was simple: “Does the following relate at all to D.E.I.? Respond factually in less than 120 characters. Begin with ‘Yes’ or ‘No.’” The results were sweeping, and sometimes bizarre.
[New York Times]
Caitlin Kalinowski posted on X that she resigned from OpenAI, saying the company’s contract didn’t do enough to protect Americans from warrantless surveillance and that granting AI “lethal autonomy without human authorization” was a line that “deserved more deliberation.”
The feature was expected to launch sometime this quarter, but an OpenAI spokesperson tells former Verge staffer Alex Heath that “We’re pushing out the launch of adult mode so we can focus on work that is a higher priority for more users right now, including gains in intelligence, personality improvements, personalization, and making the experience more proactive.”
OpenAI just launched Codex Security, a new research preview AI agent focused on identifying and fixing app security issues. Separately, it announced the Codex Open Source Fund is also now including “conditional access” to Codex Security as part of the six-month ChatGPT Pro with Codex subscriptions it’s offering open source developers.
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