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AI: the world is finally starting to regulate artificial intelligence – what to expect from US, EU and China’s new laws
To support innovation, newly developed AI systems could start off in the high-risk category – as defined by the EU AI Act – and be demoted to lower risk categories as we explore their effects. (Illustration by Suneesh K.) By Alina Patelli, Aston University Most mainstream applications of artificial intelligence (AI) make use of its…
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What Went Down at OpenAI
What a turn of events! OpenAI began the day once again as the hottest startup in tech, run by the smartest hotshots in artificial intelligence. But around lunchtime on the west coast, it was a car crash, one that kept getting worse throughout the day. First, the OpenAI board dropped a bombshell with the announcement…
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Senior executive at AI firm resigns over use of copyrighted work
Ed Newton-Rex said it’s unfair to take people’s work & use it to create competitor By Jim Norton Technology Editor Published: 21:52 EST, 17 November 2023 | Updated: 21:52 EST, 17 November 2023
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Before OpenAI Ousted Altman, Employees Disagreed Over AI ‘Safety’
OpenAI’s ouster of CEO Sam Altman on Friday followed internal arguments among employees about whether the company was developing artificial intelligence safely enough, according to people with knowledge of the situation. Such disagreements were high on the minds of some employees during an impromptu all-hands meeting following the firing. Ilya Sutskever, a co-founder and board…
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Sam Altman fired as CEO of ChatGPT maker Open AI
AI startup says Altman was ‘not consistently candid in his communications with the board’. Sam Altman, the Silicon Valley CEO behind the artificial intelligence-powered chatbots ChatGPT and GPT-4, has been abruptly fired by his company’s board of directors in a major shake-up for the tech industry. Microsoft-backed Open AI said on Friday that its board…
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How Fairfax Co. students are using AI to problem-solve
Students at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Fairfax County, Virginia, are using artificial intelligence to solve problems in class. (WTOP/Scott Gelman) In Room 18 at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Fairfax County, Virginia, teacher Malcolm Eckel watched as his students worked on artificial intelligence for tic tac…
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Who is OpenAI’s ousted CEO, Sam Altman?
Companies Openai LLC Follow Microsoft Corp Follow Nov 17 (Reuters) – Artificial intelligence may be well-known for generating human-like images out of whole cloth, but if the software has a public face it is Sam Altman’s. The co-founder of OpenAI, which caused a sensation just a year ago with the introduction of ChatGPT, Altman has…
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OpenAI co-founder quits after finding out about CEO’s departure
<!–> OpenAI CEO answers questions from FOX Business’ Hillary Vaughn ahead of Senate event. OpenAI president and co-founder, Greg Brockman, announced on the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, late Friday that he is quitting his job with the company that developed the popular software, ChatGPT, hours after the company announced the departure…
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Wyoming educators innovate ways to use artificial intelligence
BUFFALO — When students are programming in Krista Sweckard’s class and their code is coming up with errors, they follow what she calls the rubber duck theory. Sweckard is a computer science teacher at Buffalo High School. When errors pop up in their programs, students in Sweckard’s class must first talk it out with a…
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The Sudden Fall of Sam Altman
Earlier this year, I asked Sam Altman whether decisions made by OpenAI’s leaders might one day lead to unemployment among the masses. “Jobs are definitely going to go away, full stop,” he told me. He couldn’t have known then that his would be among the first. In a blog post released this afternoon, OpenAI—the artificial-intelligence…