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OpenAI Says Russia and China Used Its A.I. in Covert Campaigns

By: Cade Metz
30 May 2024 at 13:24
Iran and an Israeli company also exploited the tools in online influence efforts, but none gained much traction, an OpenAI report said.

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The OpenAI offices in San Francisco.

OpenAI Says It Has Begun Training a New Flagship A.I. Model

By: Cade Metz
28 May 2024 at 23:31
The advanced A.I. system would succeed GPT-4, which powers ChatGPT. The company has also created a new safety committee to address A.I.’s risks.

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As Sam Altman’s OpenAI trains its new model, its new Safety and Security committee will work to hone policies and processes for safeguarding the technology, the company said.

Voice Actors Sue Company Whose AI Sounds Like Them

By: Cade Metz
16 May 2024 at 12:49
Two voice actors say an A.I. company created clones of their voices without their permission. Now they’re suing. The company denies it did anything wrong.

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Linnea Sage and Paul Skye Lehrman were shocked when they heard A.I.-generated versions of their voices.

Inside OpenAI’s Library

OpenAI may be changing how the world interacts with language. But inside headquarters, there is a homage to the written word: a library.

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OpenAI’s Chief Scientist, Ilya Sutskever, Is Leaving the Company

By: Cade Metz
14 May 2024 at 21:39
In November, Ilya Sutskever joined three other OpenAI board members to force out Sam Altman, the chief executive, before saying he regretted the move.

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Ilya Sutskever, who contributed to breakthrough research in artificial intelligence, brought instant credibility to OpenAI.

OpenAI Unveils New ChatGPT That Listens, Looks and Talks

By: Cade Metz
14 May 2024 at 01:12
Chatbots, image generators and voice assistants are gradually merging into a single technology with a conversational voice.

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The new app is part of a much wider effort to combine conversational chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT with voice assistants like the Google Assistant and Apple’s Siri.

Google Unveils AI for Predicting Behavior of Human Molecules

By: Cade Metz
8 May 2024 at 11:00
The system, AlphaFold3, could accelerate efforts to understand the human body and fight disease.

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Google DeepMind’s new technology brings hope that the advances will significantly streamline the creation of new drugs and vaccines.

OpenAI Releases β€˜Deepfake’ Detector to Disinformation Researchers

The prominent A.I. start-up is also joining an industrywide effort to spot content made with artificial intelligence.

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OpenAI’s offices in San Francisco. The company said that its new detector can identify 98.8 percent of images created by DALL-E 3, its own generator.

Friends From the Old Neighborhood Turn Rivals in Big Tech’s A.I. Race

29 April 2024 at 00:01
Demis Hassabis and Mustafa Suleyman, who both grew up in London, feared a corporate rush to build artificial intelligence. Now they’re driving that competition at Google and Microsoft.

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Demis Hassabis, left, the chief executive of Google DeepMind, and Mustafa Suleyman, the chief executive of Microsoft AI, were longtime friends from London.

A.I. Start-Ups Face a Rough Financial Reality Check

The table stakes for small companies to compete with the likes of Microsoft and Google are in the billions of dollars. And even that may not be enough.

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Friends From the Old Neighborhood Turn Rivals in Big Tech’s A.I. Race

29 April 2024 at 00:01
Demis Hassabis and Mustafa Suleyman, who both grew up in London, feared a corporate rush to build artificial intelligence. Now they’re driving that competition at Google and Microsoft.

Β© Left, Enric Fontcuberta/EPA, via Shutterstock; right, Clara Mokri for The New York Times

Demis Hassabis, left, the chief executive of Google DeepMind, and Mustafa Suleyman, the chief executive of Microsoft AI, were longtime friends from London.

Microsoft Makes a New Push Into Smaller A.I. Systems

23 April 2024 at 01:18
The company that has invested billions in generative A.I. pioneers like OpenAI says giant systems aren’t necessarily what everyone needs.

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The smallest Microsoft Phi-3 model can fit on a smartphone, and it runs on the kinds of chips that power regular computers.

Generative A.I. Arrives in the Gene Editing World of CRISPR

By: Cade Metz
22 April 2024 at 16:48
Much as ChatGPT generates poetry, a new A.I. system devises blueprints for microscopic mechanisms that can edit your DNA.

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Structure of the first AI-generated and open-sourced gene editor, OpenCRISPR-1.

Meta, in Its Biggest A.I. Push, Places Smart Assistants Across Its Apps

18 April 2024 at 12:00
Users of Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp and Messenger will be able to turn to the new technology, powered by Meta’s latest artificial intelligence model, to obtain information and complete tasks.

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