😱 Red Wedding

Author

Bot Bazaar
November 20, 2023

WTF happened in OpenAI ❗️

You are now reading issue #100 of BOT BAZAAR ❗️

LET’S GO 🚀

Red wedding

Sam Altman, the former CEO of OpenAI, was unexpectedly fired on Friday, causing an earthquake in the AI industry. The company's president and co-founder, Greg Brockman, was fired along with him. Mira Murati, OpenAI's chief technology officer, has been named interim CEO. One day has passed and reports have emerged that the board is considering scrapping the decision and inviting Sam back. Tensions between Altman, who supports aggressive AI development, and more cautious board members, including: Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskeverem played a major role in Sam's firing. Weekend negotiations to return Altman to OpenAI reportedly fell through, so the board appointed former Twitch CEO Emmett Shear as interim CEO.

We haven't seen such mess and chaos for a long time. We just have to watch what happens next.

AI is great at spoofing images and sounds

In a recent Axios-Generation Lab-Syracuse University survey of 216 computer science professors from top US universities, 95% believed that AI had advanced capabilities to create fake audio and video recordings. Of these, 68% rated it as moderately advanced and 27% as very advanced. The study notes that the most effective methods to counter AI counterfeiting are digital authentication certification (39%), public education (29%), improved detection technology (18%), and stricter regulation (13%). There are also concerns about the impact of misinformation on news credibility, with 62% of respondents citing this as a major challenge. Proposed solutions include transparency in AI-generated messages (33%) and independent fact-checking (32%). 56% of respondents believe that AI can have a positive impact on local news production, while only 25% believe it can be harmful.

It seems that in an era when computer scientists from the world's best universities are concerned about fake recordings created by AI, the most advanced solution seems to be... traditional public education.

Layoffs at Amazon

Amazon is transforming its Alexa division to focus on generative AI. This reorganization, part of a broader strategy to adapt to technological trends and customer needs, leads to the reduction of several hundred jobs. Vice President Daniel Rausch emphasized that the goal is to maximize resources for generative AI in response to competition, including ChatGPT from OpenAI.

It's interesting how this 'strategic change' suddenly became a priority after the success of ChatGPT. I guess someone at Amazon realized they had to keep up with the competition. What about employees? Well, the corporate classic, i.e. several hundred unnecessary positions are being discarded.

Website builder

From planning to publication - your website will be ready in no time.

Thanks to drag-and-drop and many other AI tools, you can create a professional website in just a few moments

Build your website in just 30 seconds using advanced artificial intelligence algorithms.

Logic

Test your chat's ability to think logically and analytically, for example with this riddle:

A baseball bat and ball together cost $1.10. The bat costs a dollar more than the ball. How much does a ball cost?