Tag: OpenAI

OpenAI’s Sam Altman Launches Iris-Scanning Worldcoin Crypto Project

The cryptocurrency project Worldcoin, founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, began its rollout on July 24, which features an innovative iris-scanning “Orb” designed to authenticate a person’s uniqueness. Worldcoin co-founders Alex Blania and Mr. Altman said the project could drastically increase economic opportunity, scale a reliable solution for distinguishing humans from artificial intelligence (AI), enable a…


Politicians Risk AI Dependency

Commentary Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming more common, including in politics. Images of Donald Trump getting violently arrested in New York or of the Pope wearing a puffy white coat are deepfakes that many believed, or wanted to believe, when they went viral. On June 26, former Alphabet CEO Eric Schmidt warned of AI’s…


AI Firm Cannot Go Public as ‘Strange’ Decisions May Need to Be Taken, Claims CEO

Sam Altman, the chief executive of OpenAI, claims there is no intent to take the organization public as he wants to maintain complete control in order to be able to take “strange” decisions when necessary. “When we develop superintelligence, we’re likely to make some decisions that public market investors would view very strangely,” Altman said…


Artificial Intelligence Poses ‘Risk of Extinction,’ Warns ChatGPT Founder and Other AI Pioneers

Artificial intelligence tools have captured the public’s attention in recent months, but many of the people who helped develop the technology are now warning that greater focus should be placed on ensuring it doesn’t bring about the end of human civilization. A group of more than 350 AI researchers, journalists, and policymakers signed a brief…


IN-DEPTH: Why Are Canadian Privacy Commissioners Worried About ChatGPT?

Canada’s federal privacy commissioner and several of his provincial counterparts are in the midst of an investigation into the artificial intelligence (AI) company that makes ChatGPT because of a confidential complaint alleging the technology has been violating Canadians’ privacy. Specifically, the complaint alleges that U.S.-based OpenAI “collected, used and disclosed” personal information “without consent,” according…


Bill Gates Says Personal AI Agents Could Change Consumer Behavior, Impact Retail Giants Including Amazon

Artificial intelligence agents could revolutionize the way customers shop and search online, potentially rendering retail giants such as Amazon useless, according to Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates. Gates made the comments at the AI Forward 2023 event in San Francisco on May 22. The billionaire said he believes the current race to win in the artificial intelligence…


Gen. Flynn Criticizes Pentagon’s $3 Billion Overestimation of Ukraine Aid: ‘Should Not Have Occurred’

The Pentagon is found to have overestimated the value of weapons sent to Ukraine by $3 billion. General Michael Flynn joins us to discuss the issue. High-stakes negotiations over the debt ceiling have hit a road bump. Find out why Republicans have hit the pause button. The United States is laying out the largest set of…


Latest AI Model Shows Signs of ‘Human-Level’ Intelligence: Microsoft Research

OpenAI’s artificial intelligence system GPT-4 has shown “sparks of artificial general intelligence (AGI),” displaying abilities in a wide range of knowledge domains with a performance that is almost at the “human-level,” according to a paper by Microsoft Research. An AGI would be able to understand the world as human beings do and have a similar…


A Significant Area of Concern: OpenAI Chief on Possible Use of AI to Compromise Elections

Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI-the startup behind ChatGPT, told a Senate panel on May 16 the use of artificial intelligence to interfere with election integrity is a “significant area of concern,” adding that it needs regulation. …


LIVE 10 AM ET: Senate Judiciary Subcommittee Hearing on ‘Rules for Artificial Intelligence’

The U.S. Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law holds a hearing on “Oversight of A.I.: Rules for Artificial Intelligence” at 10 a.m. ET on May 16. Samuel Altman, CEO of OpenAI: Christina Montgomery, chief privacy and trust officer of IBM; and Gary Marcus, professor emeritus at New York University will testify. …