He says voice will be “one of if not the most frequent ways we interact with AI.”
One of the featured AI voices is that of actor Awkwafina. Zuckerberg asked AI Awkwafina if “live demos are risky” and it gave a natural-sounding response. (Yes, it is risky and potentially embarrassing.)
Meta AI has 500 million monthly active users already, according to Zuckerberg.
As we kick off Meta’s flagship conference, I’m noticing an abundance of creators throwing up their peace signs and taking selfies in front of all the Meta signage — the campus makes for great content, too, since it looks like Disneyland. I’ve met an array of podcasters, TikTokers (Reel-ers?), and AR developers here already.
My home office has a lot of knick knacks: a Kirby pencil case, a mirror that looks like a CD, and a light-up Majora’s Mask. It turns out, though, I should step my game up.
In a recent podcast interview, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said his home office is decorated with objects tracking the technological development of humanity, including a hand ax, which he often stares at.
“I just think about how far we have come from this single piece of technology we used everything for.”
[The San Francisco Standard]
Salesforce just wrapped up Dreamforce, its flagship conference in San Francisco, with a roast of the audience by comedian John Mulaney.
“If AI is truly smarter than us and tells us that [humans] should die, then I think we should die,” he said. “So many of you feel imminently replaceable.”
“Can AI sit there in a fleece vest? Can AI not go to events and spend all day at a bar?”
[The San Francisco Standard]
OpenAI unveiled the first in a series of “reasoning” models on Thursday, accompanied by a safety card highlighting some alarming capabilities. It’s also the first time the startup has rated a model “medium” risk.
The weirdest part, as Transformer points out, is that the researchers found that the new model “sometimes instrumentally faked alignment during testing” and would strategically manipulate “task data in order to make its misaligned action look more aligned”.
[www.transformernews.ai]
