Chatbots can be manipulated through flattery and peer pressure
Chatbots can be manipulated through flattery and peer pressure Generally, AI chatbots are not supposed to do things like call you names or tell you how to make controlled substances. But, just like a person, with the right psychological tactics, it seems like at least some LLMs can be convinced to break their own rules. […]
What’s really happening with the hires at Meta Superintelligence Labs
What's really happening with the hires at Meta Superintelligence Labs What’s really happening with the hires at Meta Superintelligence Labs In June, Mark Zuckerberg went for the ultimate Hail Mary in the ever-intensifying AI race: He spun up a brand-new Meta AI lab after making a $14.3 billion acquisition of Scale AI – and then […]
Microsoft launches its first in-house AI models
Microsoft launches its first in-house AI models Microsoft announced its first homegrown AI models on Thursday: MAI-Voice-1 AI and MAI-1-preview. The company says its new MAI-Voice-1 speech model can generate a minute’s worth of audio in under one second on just one GPU, while MAI-1-preview “offers a glimpse of future offerings inside Copilot.” Microsoft already […]
Elon Musk’s xAI is suing OpenAI and Apple
Elon Musk's xAI is suing OpenAI and Apple Elon Musk’s xAI is suing OpenAI and Apple Elon Musk is suing Apple and OpenAI over claims that their deal to build ChatGPT into the iPhone is stifling competition in the AI industry. In a lawsuit filed on Monday, the Musk-owned X Corp. and xAI also accuse […]
The power shift inside OpenAI
The power shift inside OpenAI Fidji Simo is wrapping up her first week at OpenAI, where she is expected to oversee most of the company’s roughly 3,000 employees. To investors and partners, OpenAI leaders have been describing the former Instacart CEO as the kind of steady hand the company needs. Her mandate is clear: turn […]
Sam Altman says ‘yes,’ AI is in a bubble
Sam Altman says 'yes,' AI is in a bubble Sam Altman says ‘yes,’ AI is in a bubble As economists speculate whether the stock market is in an AI bubble that could soon burst, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has just admitted to believing we’re in one. “Are we in a phase where investors as a […]
I talked to Sam Altman about the GPT-5 launch fiasco
I talked to Sam Altman about the GPT-5 launch fiasco On Thursday, I had dinner with Sam Altman, a few other OpenAI executives, and a small group of reporters in San Francisco. Altman answered our questions for hours. No topic was off limits, and everything, with the exception of what was said over dessert, was […]
The head of ChatGPT on AI attachment, ads, and what’s next
The head of ChatGPT on AI attachment, ads, and what's next The head of ChatGPT on AI attachment, ads, and what’s next Welcome to Decoder! I’m Alex Heath, your Thursday episode guest host and deputy editor at The Verge. Today, I’m talking to a very special guest: Nick Turley, the head of ChatGPT at OpenAI. […]
Sam Altman’s new startup wants to merge machines and humans
Sam Altman's new startup wants to merge machines and humans Sam Altman’s new startup wants to merge machines and humans If you’ve enjoyed Elon Musk’s ongoing beef with Sam Altman and OpenAI, get ready for a whole new chapter: soon they’ll be rivals not just in AI, but in brain-computer interfaces too. The Financial Times […]
Sam Altman is right and wrong about the future of photos
Sam Altman is right and wrong about the future of photos Don’t compare AI bunnies to phone camera processing, Sam. I’m annoyed, not for the first time, by something Sam Altman has said. But this time it’s because I’m annoyed at how much I agree with what he’s saying – even though I think his […]