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GPT-4’s Secret Has Been Revealed

Unraveling OpenAI’s masterful ploy — GPT-4 was the most anticipated AI model in history. Yet when OpenAI released it in March they didn’t tell us anything about its size, data, internal structure, or how they trained and built it. A true black box. As it turns out, they didn’t conceal those critical details because the…

Artificial Intelligence

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GPT-4’s Secret Has Been Revealed
GPT-4’s Secret Has Been Revealed
Artificial Intelligence

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6 days ago

What You’re Feeling Is Shiny Object Syndrome

Q* is a symptom of our addiction to AI — This article is a selection from The Algorithmic Bridge, an educational project aimed at bridging the gap between AI and people. Join me to learn how to navigate a future that has already arrived. Even the best critical thinkers can fall victim to the contagious thrill and excitement caused by…

Artificial Intelligence

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What You’re Feeling Is Shiny Object Syndrome
What You’re Feeling Is Shiny Object Syndrome
Artificial Intelligence

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Nov 22

Making Sense of OpenAI, Sam Altman and the Non-profit Board on Their Hardest Days

The things that went wrong this weekend have been wrong since the very beginning — the rest is fine and always has been — This is my fifth and final article about the recent OpenAI saga (you can read the other four here, here, here, and here). It is a calmer reflection on the significance of the events from Friday (the firing of CEO Sam Altman) to Tuesday (Altman’s return as CEO). It is…

Artificial Intelligence

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Making Sense of OpenAI, Sam Altman and the Non-profit Board on Their Hardest Days
Making Sense of OpenAI, Sam Altman and the Non-profit Board on Their Hardest Days
Artificial Intelligence

12 min read


Nov 18

This Subtle but Fundamental Conflict Made OpenAI Break Up With Sam Altman

It’s not a clash between doomers and accelerationists — both Altman and Sutskever are pro-safety and AI-optimists. So, what happened? — Let’s try to further elucidate, with the available information, what’s happened to OpenAI, which resulted yesterday in the unexpected ousting of CEO Sam Altman and Chairman Greg Brockman. I’ve seen people framing the internal clash as a conflict between AI doomers — those who think safety is the most important…

Artificial Intelligence

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This Subtle but Fundamental Conflict Made OpenAI Break Up With Sam Altman
This Subtle but Fundamental Conflict Made OpenAI Break Up With Sam Altman
Artificial Intelligence

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Nov 18

Why OpenAI Fired Sam Altman — And What Happens Next in the AI World

Expect many, many changes. Time to revisit our timelines for everything — Edit Tuesday Nov 22nd: Sam Altman is back as OpenAI CEO. A couple of important details: Changes to the non-profit board: The board was composed of six people before the firing: Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, Adam D’angelo, Helen Toner, and Tasha McCauley. Now it’s only three members. Altman…

Artificial Intelligence

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Artificial Intelligence

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Nov 17

Sam Altman’s Hidden Message at OpenAI DevDay Keynote

GPT-4 Turbo, GPTs, and the GPT Store are not the real state-of-the-art in AI — Everyone, myself included, is excited to try and succeed with the new GPTs, i.e., OpenAI’s create-your-own-ChatGPT service that Sam Altman announced during the DevDay opening keynote (they’re available only for paying subscribers). The possibility of making a customized quasi-AI agent is a game-changer. The capabilities of these GPTs are the…

Artificial Intelligence

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Sam Altman’s Hidden Message at OpenAI DevDay Keynote
Sam Altman’s Hidden Message at OpenAI DevDay Keynote
Artificial Intelligence

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Nov 16

While AI Companies Promise Heaven, Underage Workers Are Training Their Models

The rampant cynicism in Silicon Valley AI companies is beyond me — Perhaps the most startling reality of AI, in the worst possible sense of the word, is that in the same week, you can find an article entitled OpenAI chief seeks new Microsoft funds to build ‘superintelligence’ published next to another entitled Underage Workers Are Training AI. A profoundly dystopian image…

Artificial Intelligence

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Artificial Intelligence

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Nov 10

Here’s Why People Will Never Care About AI Risk

It is an irrational fear but people are afraid of stupider things — Eric Schmidt says: I think a big problem w getting the public to care about AI risk is that it’s just a huge emotional ask — for someone to really consider that there’s a solid chance that the whole world’s about to end. People will instinctively resist it tooth-and-nail. People…

Artificial Intelligence

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Here’s Why People Will Never Care About AI Risk
Here’s Why People Will Never Care About AI Risk
Artificial Intelligence

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Nov 3

Fear Has Won

The US and the UK have decided what the future of AI looks like — This article is a selection from The Algorithmic Bridge, an educational newsletter to bridge the gap between AI, algorithms, and people. It was not the potential benefits of nuclear bombs that led the US to develop the first one in 1945, which was soon later replicated by other superpowers. It…

Artificial Intelligence

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Fear Has Won
Fear Has Won
Artificial Intelligence

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Oct 26

The Most Important Skill in the 21st Century

This world is a trap of perfectly-customized entertainment: We need boredom — I’ve been thinking about entertainment. And about boredom. And about how my body, which is always seeking new things to watch and play with, sometimes self-saturates to the point that it wants nothing. Just be there, bored. And I realize that we’ve forgotten what that is. Boredom is dead. And…

Artificial Intelligence

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The Most Important Skill in the 21st Century
The Most Important Skill in the 21st Century
Artificial Intelligence

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Alberto Romero

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AI & Tech | Analyst at CambrianAI | Weekly AI Newsletter: https://thealgorithmicbridge.substack.com/ | Contact: alber.romgar@gmail.com

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