A week in Generative AI: Altman, Brockman & OpenAI Part 2
News for the week ending 26th November 2023
Sam and Greg are back at OpenAI! You might not have even known they left to be honest, but there are some great leadership lessons to be learned from the last week at OpenAI. In other news, Anthropic halved hallucinations in the Claude model and Ilya Sutskever gives a TED talk.
Sam Altman & Greg Brockman return to OpenAI
Not many saw this coming either! Nothing to see here, all back to the way it was at OpenAI, except a new Board is being put in place. Feel like everyone’s moved on now, which is probably a good thing!
Anthropic introduces Claude 2.1
Some impressive updated from Anthropic to the Claude model - 200k context window, a 2x decrease in hallucination rates and the ability for the model to use tools.
ChatGPT with voice now available to all free users
I can’t urge people enough to give this a try. It’s literally like you’re in the movie Her. We’re definitely going to end up in that future at some point!
The exciting, perilous journey towards AGI
Good TED talk from Ilya Sutskever, worth a watch and clearly explains not only why we’ll get to Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) but why it will be so good for humanity as well.
DeepMind Says New Multi-Game AI Is a Step Toward More General Intelligence
This is an interesting breakthrough at DeepMind - being able to combine the leading approaches to two very different kinds of game in a single model is a significant achievement
UK annoucnes £500m for AI ‘innovation centres’
Not sure if just £500m will turn the UK into an ‘AI powerhouse’ 🙄 but it’s better than nothing!
AI Ethics News
Where are all the ‘godmothers’ of AI? Women’s voices are not being heard
Germany, France and Italy reach agreement on future AI regulation
Long Reads
YouTube, Andrej Kaparthy - Intro to Large Language Models
Randstad - AI threatening jobs? Most workers say technology is an accelerant for career growth
Medium - Building An OpenAI GPT with Your API: A Step-by-Step Guide
Interesting Features & Use Cases
GPT-4 + Vision + TTS + Whisper as Basketball Commentator
“The future is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed.“
William Gibson