AI News Stories

1. Broken Promises: Musk's Lawsuit Accuses OpenAI of Selling Out

Elon Musk sued OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman, alleging they breached the company's original non-profit mission of developing open-source AI to benefit humanity. Musk claims they now prioritize profits over transparency, exemplified by OpenAI's partnership with Microsoft. Read More. Key Takeaways:

• Musk sues OpenAI for abandoning its non-profit, open-source principles

• Claims OpenAI now focused on maximizing profits with Microsoft partnership

• Alleges breach of contract, fiduciary duty, and unfair competition

2. Humans vs. Machines: GPT-4 Wins the Battle of Divergent Thinking

A study found that OpenAI's GPT-4 language model outperformed humans on multiple divergent thinking tasks measuring creative potential, such as the Alternative Uses Task and Consequences Task. GPT-4 demonstrated higher originality and elaboration than human participants, even when controlling for fluency of responses. Read More. Key Takeaways:

• GPT-4 showed greater creative potential than humans on divergent thinking tasks

• GPT-4 had higher originality and elaboration scores across multiple creativity measures

• AI may surpass humans in generative creativity, but has limitations in appropriateness

3. OpenAI's Next Frontier: Teaching Humanoid Robots to Understand Language

OpenAI has partnered with Figure AI, a startup developing humanoid robots, to enhance the language capabilities of Figure's robots using OpenAI's models. The collaboration aims to help robots assist with everyday tasks. Figure also announced raising $675 million at a $2.6 billion valuation to accelerate its commercial robotics timeline. Read More. Key Takeaways:

• OpenAI partnering with Figure AI to boost language skills of humanoid robots

• Goal is for robots to help with everyday tasks and labor shortages

• Figure raised $675 million at $2.6 billion valuation to accelerate robotics efforts

4. ChatGPT Finds Its Voice: OpenAI Unveils "Read Aloud" Feature

OpenAI has quietly launched a new "Read Aloud" feature for ChatGPT that allows users to listen to AI-generated responses read in a synthetic voice. Currently available to select ChatGPT Plus users, it offers multiple AI voice options for personalization. Though still in early rollout, the feature enhances accessibility and engagement with conversational AI. Read More. Key Takeaways:

• New "Read Aloud" feature lets ChatGPT users listen to AI responses vocalized

• Offers multiple AI voice options for personalized experience

• Increases accessibility and engagement for conversational AI interactions

When Ideology Corrupts AI: The Gemini Debacle

Join Mark as he discusses Google's AI model Gemini for generating inaccurate and offensive images due to an over-emphasis on diversity and "wokeness." Mark argues this ideology undermines truth and spreads harmful biases when incorporated into AI systems.

Key Takeaways:

• Mark calls out Gemini for generating inaccurate, biased images like "black Nazis"

• Pushing diversity/ideology into AI leads to flawed, biased outputs

• Mark calls for focus on accuracy over ideological agendas in AI development

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