OpenAI CEO Sam Altman pondered in a blog post this past week how to more widely spread the wealth being generated by fast advancing AI technologies.
Tag: AI
THE SINGULARITY AND THE SOUL
Of course mere humans will cede the critical decisions regarding our planet’s future to an Artificial Super Intelligence (ASI).
GOOGLE RESCINDS PLEDGE TO DENY AI FOR MILITARY AND SURVEILLANCE USE
Google has quietly scrapped its promise to bar the use of its AI products in weapons and other military uses.
ARM HOLDINGS GIVES CAUTIOUS OUTLOOK, STIRRING AI WORRIES
Arm Holdings, Europe’s biggest tech company by market capitalization, offered a muted revenue forecast for its current quarter, heightening concerns that spending on AI in general is slowing.
U.S. GOVERNMENT’S AI SAFETY CHIEF LEAVES
Elizabeth Kelly, head of the U.S. Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute, has left her job as of 7 February. She resigned, although, as a Biden appointee, she was widely expected to be fired by Donald Trump.
UPDATE: THE DEEPSEEK EFFECT
DeepSeek’s arrival will not halt Wall Street’s year-plus-long tech rally, investors told the Financial Times, although it might alter the list of winners and losers.
DOES ASI MEAN KISS YOUR ASS GOODBYE?
It turns out, we’ve been relative techno-optimists in these pages, who knew?
HEDGE FUNDS PLACE MASSIVE BETS ON U.S. MARKET “CRASH”
Hedge funds have spent billions of dollars taking short positions on U.S. equity markets, betting “against Donald Trump’s America amid fears of a market crash,” the Financial Times reported.
MICROSOFT CEO PRAISES DEEPSEEK, WILL OFFER THE R1 TO ITS CUSTOMERS
“DeepSeek has had some real innovations,” Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said during a 27 January call with investors. “Obviously now that all gets commoditized and it’s going to get broadly used.”
ITALY SUSPENDS DEEPSEEK
Italy has blocked residents’ access to DeepSeek, citing concerns about the company’s potential abuses of users’ personal data.