Chatbots Are Primed to Warp Reality

Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (NOA) using AI narration. More and more people are learning about the world through chatbots and the software’s kin, whether they mean to or not.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/08/chatbots-false-memories/679660/

OpenAI Execs Mass Quit as Company Removes Control From Non-Profit Board and Hands It to Sam Altman

ChatGPT maker OpenAI is losing even more executives — right as Reuters reports that it's looking to restructure its core business and wrestle control away from its non-profit board.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://futurism.com/openai-execs-quit

Software Firms Race to Beat OpenAI in AI Agents — The Information

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/software-firms-race-to-beat-openai-in-ai-agents

Nomi AI wants to make the most emotionally intelligent chatbots on the market

As OpenAI boasts about its o1 model’s increased thoughtfulness, a small, self-funded startup Nomi AI is building the same kind of technology. Unlike the broad generalist ChatGPT, which slows down…

ORIGINAL LINK: https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/26/nomi-ai-wants-to-make-the-most-emotionally-intelligent-chatbots-on-the-market/

ChatGPT's human-like Advanced Voice Mode feature can say “Sorry I’m late” in over 50 languages — but the EU is reportedly turning a deaf ear to OpenAI's plea because it can detect user emotion

OpenAI's Advanced Voice mode for its ChatGPT AI-powered chatbot is arguably the most-anticipated feature among users this year.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/chatgpt-advanced-voice-mode-feature-barred-by-eu

OpenAI's For-Profit Pivot

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.perplexity.ai/page/openai-s-for-profit-pivot-Mg7ldRffSXme1JG83ig7lQ

Two More OpenAI Leaders Departing — The Information

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/two-more-openai-leaders-departing?utm_campaign=%5BREBRAND%5D+%5BTI-AM%5D+Th&utm_content=1095&utm_medium=email&utm_source=cio&utm_term=124

A tiny new open-source AI model performs as well as powerful big ones

The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (Ai2), a research nonprofit, is releasing a family of open-source multimodal language models, called Molmo, that it says perform as well as top proprietary models from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic. 

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/09/25/1104465/a-tiny-new-open-source-ai-model-performs-as-well-as-powerful-big-ones/

OpenAI’s slow-motion train wreck

This is one of the most famous magazine covers of our time. So is this one.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/openais-slow-motion-train-wreck

Most US Teens Use Generative AI. Most of Their Parents Don’t Know

A fresh wave of anxiety about children and technology is cresting, with parents and pundits increasingly interrogating how kids use smartphones, social media, and screens. It hasn’t stopped teenagers from embracing generative AI.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.wired.com/story/teens-generative-ai-use-schools-parents/

AI Writing and the Illusion of Progress

When Open AI introduced Chapt GPT on November 22, they blew up the economy… In a good way. Nowadays, AI writing has become a norm. Back in Q4 of 2022, the world was in the grip of inflation. People warned of hyperinflation.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://dariusforoux.com/ai-writing-illusion/

How large language models can reshape collective intelligence

Collective intelligence underpins the success of groups, organizations, markets and societies. Through distributed cognition and coordination, collectives can achieve outcomes that exceed the capabilities of individualseven expertsresulting in improved accuracy and novel capabilities.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-024-01959-9

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman anticipates superintelligence soon, defends AI in rare personal blog post

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ORIGINAL LINK: https://venturebeat.com/ai/openai-ceo-sam-altman-anticipates-superintelligence-soon-defends-ai-in-rare-personal-blog-post/

ChatGPT Passed The Turing Test—Here's What That Means!

Key Takeaways GPT-4 passed the UC San Diego Turing test with a 54% success rate. Human participants were misidentified as AI 67% of the time. Interrogators used varied approaches, with personal details and logical questions proving the most effective.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.howtogeek.com/chatgpt-passed-the-turing-test-heres-what-that-means/

Something New: On OpenAI's "Strawberry" and Reasoning

The new AI model, called GPT-o1 (why are the AI companies so bad at names?), lets the AI “think through” a problem before solving it. This lets it address very hard problems that require planning and iteration, like novel math or science questions.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/something-new-on-openais-strawberry

Here's How To Install Your Own Uncensored Local GPT-Like Chatbot

Key Takeaways Keep data private by using GPT4All for uncensored responses. It's an easy download, but ensure you have enough space. Run the local chatbot effectively by updating models and categorizing documents.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.howtogeek.com/heres-how-to-install-your-own-uncensored-local-gpt-like-chatbot/

Due to AI fakes, the “deep doubt” era is here

Given the flood of photorealistic AI-generated images washing over social media networks like X and Facebook these days, we're seemingly entering a new age of media skepticism: the era of what I'm calling "deep doubt.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/09/due-to-ai-fakes-the-deep-doubt-era-is-here/

How Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and the Silicon Valley elite manipulate the public

The question is, why did we fall for Silicon Valley’s over-hyped and often messianic narrative in the first place? This chapter is a deep dive into the mind tricks of Silicon Valley.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://fortune.com/2024/09/17/elon-musk-sam-altman-silicon-valley-elite-manipulate-public/