OpenAI brought screenshots of Elon Musk’s emails to the fight against the Tesla CEO’s lawsuit. Speaking of OpenAI, it turns out ChatGPT isn’t so good at following copyright laws. And the Bill Gates-backed startup that used AI to find copper has more in store.
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OpenAI fired back at Elon Musk’s lawsuit against the company by releasing screenshots of emails from Musk during his time at OpenAI that show he supported making it a for-profit company and said a merger with Tesla was the only way to compete with Google.
As artists, writers, and other creators plead for AI regulation to protect their work and livelihoods — and chatbot makers OpenAI and Anthropic face copyright lawsuits from the likes of authors, the New York Times, and Universal Music Group — research published Wednesday found some of the top AI models available today generate “copyrighted content at an alarmingly high rate.”
Meta is spending billions on chips to build on its AI ambitions, and one of its efforts is focused on its video platform, an executive said. As part of Meta’s “technology roadmap” for now until 2026, the company is developing an AI model to power recommendations for its videos and user Feeds, said Tom Alison, the head of Facebook.
After striking copper, a Bill Gates-backed metals startup says it’s not finished yet. KoBold Metals is using its AI technology to find deposits of high-demand metals, such as lithium, cobalt, and nickel, that can be used in the production of renewable energy products like solar panels and electric vehicle batteries. To discover deposits, the company collects satellite imagery and drilling data, then uses AI to develop maps of the Earth’s crust and search them for metals.
Ever since Tesla CEO Elon Musk sued OpenAI, some of the biggest names in Silicon Valley have been weighing in. Musk filed a lawsuit against the AI startup he helped found with its CEO Sam Altman — who he is also suing — late last week.
AI is inevitably seeping into the workplace. And while some fear the technology could replace workers, an AI industry leader says workers shouldn’t worry about the new tools replacing them — they should worry about the people who know how to use them.
Following controversy over historically inaccurate images, Google’s generative AI tool is under fire again by the company’s cofounder. Sergey Brin, Google’s cofounder and former president of Google parent Alphabet, said Google “definitely messed up on the image generation,” and that he thinks “it was mostly due to not thorough testing.”
AI startup Anthropic announced its new family of AI models, Claude 3, which includes Opus, its “most intelligent model,” which it said outperformed OpenAI’s GPT-4 in a range of tasks.
There’s no doubt that the chatbots AI companies are racing to release are impressive. They can code, write speeches, pass exams, and even answer medical questions. But that doesn’t mean there haven’t been some stumbles along the way — some of them quite high-profile and embarrassing to the companies behind them.
