There are many questions about OpenAI's development process
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Karpathy Leaves OpenAI: Advocate for AI Education and Simplification
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Interesting to see Karpathy step away from OpenAI. I hope he keeps on teaching how these AI systems work. He is the best I've ever come across for making these complex topics seem simple(r).
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Jonathan Ross joined by Yann LeCun and Jensen Huang
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@JonathanRoss321 will be joined by Yann LeCun and Jensen Huang.
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OpenAI announces 11 winning teams for agentic AI safety research grants
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We have now selected and notified 11 winning teams. They will receive grants ranging between $15K and $100K to conduct research on the impacts of agentic AI systems and approaches for making them safe. Thank you to all the teams that applied. OpenAI (@OpenAI) Our new research white paper identifies seven practices for keeping increasingly agentic AI systems safe and accountable as they become more common and more capable. We are providing research grants for work on a range of open questions. openai.com/research/practice… — https://nitter.net/OpenAI/status/1735390088929202673#m
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For-Profit Companies Optimize for Profit and Growth Goals
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Or, the goal of a for profit company is (ultimately) profit and growth. And they optimized for that goal.
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Big Tech acquisitions threaten encrypted messaging privacy standards
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Cautionary tales abound. We see what happened to WhatsApp for biz, where they removed e2ee in pursuit of the business market. Or what happened to Wickr, a private comms service which was shut down by Amazon post-acquisition b/c it wasn't profitable enough.
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Signal’s 501c3 Status Protects Privacy Against Surveillance Business Models
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Skiff was a cool private ~productivity suite. Now they're shutting down after being acquired One more example of how important Signal's 501c3 status is–a structural safeguard protecting privacy in an industry where $ is generally tied to surveillance.
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ChatGPT Introduces Memory Feature for Past Conversations
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It's shaping up to be an interesting day in the world of AI… – OpenAI announces that ChatGPT will now have memory and reference things from past conversations (and that you can also remove things from memory)… It's rolling out so most of us probably still don't have it yet
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Reclaiming Internet Control from Big Tech Giants
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5+ billion people live & work on the internet. Only a handful of companies own & control it. READ WRITE OWN by @cdixon is a powerful new book about this core technology—a manifesto for reclaiming the internet from Big Tech. Here are 10 world-disrupting ideas from this
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ARM Surges on Earnings While Arista Disappoints Markets
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A read on the week's stock activity // The TL Podcast for February 12th: Excess and disappointment ARM leads the pack of stocks surging on earnings, its valuation now entering way-overbought territory, while shares of Arista and others didn’t deliver enough with earnings to