OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 large language models, recent AIs that run on the company’s Chat-GPT platform, are “impressively consistent” in their ability to reason, according to a study by researchers in Australia and Canada.
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OPENAI SUSPENDS RESTRUCTURING, LEAVES NONPROFIT PARENT IN CONTROL
OpenAI has suspended its plan to convert to a for-profit organization, Reuters reported. Instead, the nonprofit parent organization will remain the owner of the for-profit subsidiary, at least for now.
AS FORECAST: GENERATION AI BEING RAVAGED BY AI DEPENDENCE
Reliance on AI is destroying the abilities of college students to conduct research, write papers and otherwise perform high level intellectual work.
OPENAI SLASHES TIME SPENT CHECKING AI’S SAFETY
OpenAI staffers and independent evaluators recently were given a relatively few days—in some cases less than a week—to assess the newest model’s risks and performance, eight people inside the process recently told the Financial Times.
OPENAI IS NOW AMONG THE WORLD’S MOST VALUABLE COMPANIES
OpenAI has closed a $40-billion funding round, the most money ever raised in one round by a tech company.
NEW TEST SHOWS WHETHER AN AI IS LIKELY TO CAUSE “CATASTROPHIC HARM”
OpenAI’s engineers have assembled a suite of 75 very hard tests to determine whether an AI is capable of “autonomous machine learning engineering”—in other words, able to rewrite or otherwise modify its own code.
DEEPSEEK STICKS TO RESEARCH, NOT REVENUE-SEEKING
Unlike AI Western developers, Chinese company DeepSeek has reacted to its recent fame and soaring sales by focusing even more heavily on research, not chasing greater and greater revenue.
ANOTHER CHINESE DEVELOPER CLAIMS AN AI BREAKTHROUGH
Ant Group, the largest Chinese digital payments and financial services group, claims it has used Chinese-made chips to train a large language model AI at a cost 20 percent below that incurred by Western developers such as Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI.
“DISTILLATION” IS AI’S NEW THING
On 20 January, Chinese start-up DeepSeek revolutionized the AI industry by unveiling a new, world-class platform that it had created for a fraction of the cost that Western industry giants had spent.
FIRST JOB INTERVIEW QUESTION: HOW SKILLED ARE YOU IN AI?
One in four tech jobs being posted specifies AI-related skills, with the proportion rising to 36 percent in the information-tech patch of that sector, The Wall Street Journal reported.