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Here's what’s cooking:
Sam Altman and Mira Murati sat down with ABC News
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OPENAI IS NERVOUS, AND THAT’S A GOOD THING
On Friday night, Sam Altman and Mira Murati sat with the ABC News crew for an exclusive interview.
The discussion highlights the public discourse around AI and ChatGPT’s latest updates. In other words, if you’re wondering why your grandmother is now asking you about OpenAI, this interview is your answer.
Rebecca Jarvis, the interviewer with a fun last name, pushed the two execs on the biggest criticisms ChatGPT has received over the past few months.
It was a who’s who of common complaints about AI.
The entire time Altman and Murati did their best to take the jabs and nail the softballs.
They admitted that they’re nervous about the potential negative consequences of AI but argued that not being nervous would be ten times worse.
The interview covered changes necessary for education, government involvement in AI advancements, and a preview of the image-input function in GPT-4. The hodge-podge of topics shows how much AI pushes into our day-to-day.
Here’s what I want to key in on. First, there was a six-minute segment in the standard broadcast to promote the show.
The brief discussion highlights how this coverage pressed against the negatives and focused on harm.
The anchor’s script almost exclusively mentions the dangers of AI, and the delivery is cautious.
Plus, notice when the reporter pushes the “why” questions. In an interview, asking a “why” acts as a demand and forces the interviewee to justify actions.
The choice to ask Sam Altman why he would even want to create this AI shows where ABC thinks the conversation is right now. In their mind, ChatGPT worries the general public and many don’t understand why AI even exists.
Are they right?
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THE COMPLEX, FAST BLUR OF AI DEVELOPMENT
Prompt: a robot running into a blur of lightning Style: Golden Age Comic
Last week a lightning bolt of AI news struck media outlets and disoriented everyone following the space. GPT-4 coming out less than six days ago feels impossible.
You can feel the frenetic energy in companies large and small as they accelerate their timelines and push AI products out the door faster than you can say, “what a time to be alive!”
Research papers get deconstructed by Twitter before the majority of the community manages to load the final page of it. The push for the first AI updates causes a downstream effect of hectic postings and rapid news cycles.
In other words, things are moving fast--some would argue too fast.
Holden Karnofsky had a great quote in an interview with Vox:
Evolution is a simple process that resulted in complex beings that we still don’t understand.
Many people building the AI models we’re using today don’t know where AI is going tomorrow. A mirage of hot takes and hype makes the entire concept of progress fuzzy right now.
The generative AI landscape is expanding daily, and AI experts worry that the discourse promotes a loss of focus.
Remember, these neural networks operate in a black box of math that’s too complex for most of us to understand. That lack of understanding creates misnomers and misconceptions.
What can you do about it? Well, you’re here reading this, so good job.
The other advice I can give you is to scrutinize the tools you use and push to understand how they function. All these AI tools are betas of the next big thing.
The more you know now will inform what you can learn about tomorrow.
Stay energized, and we’ll keep doing our best to keep pace.
Quick Nuggets
🐅 The skills you need to stand out from AI in 2023
🩺 Great news: AI helped doctors create a cancer treatment in 30 days
💰 Capitalism & HustleGPT because just enjoying it would be too boring
🎨 Illustration competitions are looking for ways to address generative AI submissions
😕 25 messages every 3 hours, the GPT-4 limits for plus users are shrinking
🎥 Hype in Hollywood's use of AI is up for debate in this LA Times piece
👩🎤 Changes: 5 companies admit that ChatGPT has shifted the way they work
💅 No holy grail: an opinion piece in Salon argues against ChatGPT as the answer
🙏 An appeal: a LessWrong post makes the case for humanity to AI superintelligence
🍣 GPT-4 has the memory of a goldfish, according to The Atlantic
🔗 Remember ChatGPT can’t access the links you send, but will pretend to anyways
🔥 Fresh Products
Stability AI - unveiled Stable Diffusion Reimagine (link)
BulkGPT - handles large batches of ChatGPT API requests (link)
BLUF - a web extension that helps you get to the point (link)
MedGPT - focuses on specific medical prompts you have (link)
mindsum - a mental health companion for young adults (link)
Decoherence - create what can’t be filmed (link)
Riverside FM - adds AI transcription (link)
Editeur - gives you feedback on your writing (link)
FotoFix - revises old photographs (link)
Magicstudio - launches canvas to help make product photos (link)
Roam Around - creates travel plans for you (link)
Elai - input text and it outputs a video with an avatar presenter (link)
Upheal - helps take clinical notes for doctors (link)
HeadlinesAI - creates eye-catching headlines (link)
Theneo - helps create the best API documentation for you (link)
Superteam - AI chat for SMBs (link)
PROMPTMETHEUS - evaluates your ChatGPT prompts (link)
Good Content, Ton Wheat
To explain, the actor’s name is Will Wheaton. It’s Will Wheaton in a Wheat field…I’ll see myself out.
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