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On with Kara Swisher. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on the OpenAI Debacle. Listen to this episode from On with Kara Swisher on Spotify. In the swirl of drama around Sam Altman’s exit from OpenAI, one company seems to be the winner: Microsoft
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. On with Kara Swisher. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on the OpenAI Debacle. Listen to this episode from On with Kara Swisher on Spotify. (30:14) In the swirl of drama around Sam Altman’s [...]
HUFFPOST. New OpenAI Leader’s Chilling ‘Doom’ Warning May Scare Your Pants Off. Emmett Shear voiced his concerns about the dangers of artificial intelligence in a resurfaced clip. 20 NOV.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Another insider's p(doom) prediction: 5-50%. A very good read from a respected source! HUFFPOST. New OpenAI Leader's Chilling 'Doom' Warning May Scare Your Pants Off. Emmett Shear voiced [...]
702 (100%) employees at OpenAI send a letter to the board requesting them to resign or else… 100% of OpenAI staff threaten to quit and go to Microsoft unless Altman is reinstated. 20 NOV.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. 702 (100%) of employees at OpenAI send a letter to the board requesting them to resign or else... Microsoft wins. READ THE LETTER Learn more: FT. Majority of [...]
THE WASHINGTON POST. BUSINESS. The idea of OpenAI is dead. Now, Microsoft is in the driver’s seat. Sam Altman sold the world on the notion that a nonprofit could keep AI safe. That was before he was ousted. 20 NOV.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. THE WASHINGTON POST. BUSINESS. The idea of OpenAI is dead. Now, Microsoft is in the driver’s seat. Sam Altman sold the world on the notion that a nonprofit could keep AI safe. [...]
THE NEW YORK TIMES. OpenAI Staff Threatens Exodus, Jeopardizing Company’s Future. A board member who was part of Sam Altman’s ouster as chief executive joined a majority of the company’s staff in calling for the decision’s reversal. 20 NOV.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. THE NEW YORK TIMES. OpenAI Staff Threatens Exodus, Jeopardizing Company’s Future. A board member who was part of Sam Altman’s ouster as chief executive joined a majority of the company’s staff in [...]
Opinion: The drama around Sam Altman is an urgent warning. 21 NOV.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Definitely worth a read... 5 minutes CNN. Opinion: The drama around Sam Altman is an urgent warning Sam Altman was ousted from his role as CEO of OpenAI. "One thing is [...]
POLITICO. Power grab by France, Germany and Italy threatens to kill EU’s AI bill. Landmark law hangs in the balance as big countries drag their feet on advanced AI rules. 20 NOV.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. POLITICO. Power grab by France, Germany and Italy threatens to kill EU’s AI bill. Landmark law hangs in the balance as big countries drag their feet on advanced AI rules. BY GIAN [...]
“Digital Brains”. The Exciting, Perilous Journey Toward AGI | Ilya Sutskever | TED (Recorded October 17, 2023)
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. "Digital Brains" The Exciting, Perilous Journey Toward AGI | Ilya Sutskever | TED (Recorded October 17, 2023) "So although AGI does not exist today, we can still [...]
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang (at Microsoft’s Ignite): “Generative AI is the single most significant platform transition in computing history….In the last 40 years, nothing has been this big. It’s bigger than PC, it’s bigger than mobile, and it’s gonna be bigger than the internet, by far.”
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang at Microsoft Ignite 2023 - 20 November NVIDIA Partnership: Satya Nadella at Microsoft Ignite 2023 “Generative AI is the single most significant platform transition in computing history....In the [...]
THE GUARDIAN. Microsoft hires former OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Tech company creates advanced new artificial intelligence team as Twitch’s Emmett Shear joins OpenAI. 20 NOV.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. THE GUARDIAN. Microsoft hires former OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Tech company creates advanced new artificial intelligence team as Twitch’s Emmett Shear joins OpenAI. Microsoft has hired Sam Altman as head of new [...]
A16. Andreessen Horowitz. Emerging Architectures for LLM Applications. 20 JUNE
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. A16. Emerging Architectures for LLM Applications. Matt Bornstein and Rajko Radovanovic Posted June 20, 2023 Large language models are a powerful new primitive for building software. But since they are so new—and [...]
THE WASHINGTON POST. OpenAI stands by its ouster of Sam Altman. Emmett Shear named interim CEO. Talks to renegotiate Altman’s return Sunday broke down despite pressure by employees and investors to reinstate him.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. THE WASHINGTON POST. OpenAI stands by its ouster of Sam Altman. Emmett Shear named interim CEO. Talks to renegotiate Altman’s return Sunday broke down despite pressure by employees and investors to reinstate [...]
FORTUNE. Who is Ilya Sutskever, the man at the center of OpenAI’s leadership shakeup—and why is he so worried about AI superintelligence going rogue? 18 NOV.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. "Superintelligence will be the most impactful technology humanity has ever invented, and could help us solve many of the world’s most important problems. But the vast power of superintelligence could also be [...]
THE NEW YORK TIMES. The Fear and Tension That Led to Sam Altman’s Ouster at OpenAI. The departure of the high-profile boss of the San Francisco company drew attention to a philosophical rift among the people building new A.I. systems. 18 NOV.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. THE NEW YORK TIMES. The Fear and Tension That Led to Sam Altman’s Ouster at OpenAI. The departure of the high-profile boss of the San Francisco company drew attention to a philosophical [...]
Silicon Valley Boardroom Coup Leads to Ouster of an AI Champion. Safety and commercialization were central to disagreements. Microsoft CEO was ‘blindsided,’ furious at Altman’s firing
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. BLOOMBERG. Silicon Valley Boardroom Coup Leads to Ouster of an AI Champion. Safety and commercialization were central to disagreements Microsoft CEO was ‘blindsided,’ furious at Altman’s firing By Hannah Miller, Brad Stone, [...]
OpenAI Disruption over AI Safety. (OpenAI announces leadership transition) 17 NOV.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. OpenAI Board of Directors abruptly fires CEO Sam Altman. Greg Brockman Former Chairman and OpenAI President, Jakub Pachocki, director of research, Aleksander Madry, head of AI risk team, and Szymon Sidor, a [...]
NVIDIA. What Is Retrieval-Augmented Generation aka RAG? Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) is a technique for enhancing the accuracy and reliability of generative AI models with facts fetched from external sources. 15 NOV.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. A very good read from a respected source! NVIDIA. What Is Retrieval-Augmented Generation aka RAG? Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) is a technique for enhancing the accuracy and reliability of [...]
THE NEW YORK TIMES. Is Argentina the First A.I. Election? The two men jostling to be the country’s next president are using artificial intelligence to create images and videos to promote themselves and attack each other. 15 NOV.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. THE NEW YORK TIMES. Is Argentina the First A.I. Election? The two men jostling to be the country’s next president are using artificial intelligence to create images and videos to promote themselves [...]
>$50 billion annual spend on datacenters Microsoft has budgeted for 2024… and beyond.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Microsoft Infrastructure - AI & CPU Custom Silicon Maia 100, Athena, Cobalt 100 >$50 billion annual spend on datacenters Microsoft has budgeted for 2024... and beyond. Specifications, Volumes, GPT-4 performance, Next Generation [...]
The Interpretability Problem: For Humanity, An AI Safety Podcast Episode #3
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. The Interpretability Problem: For Humanity, An AI Safety Podcast Episode #3 FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. [...]
Don’t Look Up – The Documentary: The Case For AI As An Existential Threat
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Very good information from very respected sources! Learn about the well-known dangers of AI. Meanwhile, going forward, every day our p(doom) goes up and up and up... Don't [...]
Managing AI Risks in an Era of Rapid Progress. Russell, Bengio et al. 12 NOV23.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. A very good read from a respected source! Managing AI Risks in an Era of Rapid Progress. 12 November Abstract Managing AI Risks in an Era of [...]
The Dark Side of Competition in AI | Liv Boeree | TED. “Don’t hate the players. Change the game.”
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. The Dark Side of Competition in AI | Liv Boeree | TED. "Don't hate the players. Change the game." Learn more about commonly known problematic phenomena of [...]




















