Sam Altman, the CEO and co-founder of OpenAI, has been stripped of his positions by the companyâs board, citing a lack of candidness in his communications, leaving a significant gap in the companyâs fundraising efforts.
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Altman is âambivalentâ about coming back.
OpenAIâs largest investor, Microsoft, said in a statement shortly after Altmanâs firing that the company âremains committedâ to its partnership with the AI firm. However, OpenAIâs investors werenât given advance warning or opportunity to weigh in on the boardâs decision to remove Altman. As the face of the company and the most prominent voice in AI, his removal throws the future of OpenAI into uncertainty at a time when rivals are racing to catch up with the unprecedented rise of ChatGPT.
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Terabase Energy has successfully completed its first commercial solar installation using Terafab, its automatic solar-installing robot.
The Terafab robot â aka the âconstruction automation platformâ â installed 17 megawatts (MW) of the 225 MW White Wing Ranch project in Yuma County, Arizona, on which solar tech company Terabase Energy is working alongside developer Leeward Renewable Energy (LRE) and contractor RES.
The Terafab robot completely eliminates the manual lifting of heavy steel tubes and solar panels â an industry first. Terabase Energy says that its robot achieved labor productivity improvements of 25% compared with manual installation, and the setup improves working conditions for solar technicians, as theyâre housed in shaded and cooled conditions. The robotâs precision also enables the 100% return of solar panel packaging for reuse by the manufacturer.
Weâre still reeling from the just-breaking news that OpenAIâs enigmatic CEO and figurehead Sam Altman has been sacked by the companyâs board of directors. And make no mistake that weâre still intensely curious what went down behind the scenes that led the company to part with Altman during the exact moment when its ascendant tech is driving the nascent AI industry. But as the dust settles, thereâs another looming question: whatâs the deal with Mira Murati, the companyâs interim CEO whoâs stepping in to lead immediately?
One thingâs for sure: sheâs no lightweight. Hereâs what Fast Company had to say earlier this year:
Leading investors including Vinod Khosla and Reid Hoffman didnât receive advanced notice that OpenAIâs board would push out its CEO and cofounder, sources told Forbes.
According to OpenAIâs corporate governance, directorsâ key fiduciary duty is not to maintain shareholder value, but to the companyâs mission of creating a safe AGI, or artificial general intelligence, âthat is broadly beneficial.â Profits, the company said, were secondary to that mission. OpenAI first began posting the names of its board of directors on its website in July, following the departures of Reid Hoffman, Shivon Zilis and Will Hurd earlier this year, according to an archived version of the site on the Wayback Machine.
One AI-focused venture capitalist noted that following the departure of Hoffman, OpenAIâs non-profit board lacked much traditional governance. âThese are not the business or operating leaders you would want governing the most important private company in the world,â they said.
Hereâs who made the decision for Altman to be fired, and for Brockman to be removed from its board of directors. Update: Altman didnât get a vote, The Information has reported. Brockman posted an account of his version of events to X that indicated the board had acted without his knowledge as well.
Nonsense words can trick Stable Diffusion and DALL-E 2 into producing pictures that show violence and nudity.
Popular text-to-image AI models can be prompted to ignore their safety filters and generate disturbing images.
The AI startups working to build products that support African languages often get ignored by investors, says Hadgu, owing to the small size of the potential market, a lack of political support, and poor internet infrastructure. However, Hadgu says small African startups including Lesan, GhanaNLP, and Lelapa AI are playing an important role: âBig tech companies do not give focus to our languages,â he says, âbut we cannot wait for them.â
Lelapa AI is trying to create a new paradigm for AI models in Africa, says Vukosi Marivate, a data scientist on the companyâs AI team. Instead of tapping into the internet alone to collect data to train its model, like companies in the West, Lelapa AI works both online and offline with linguists and local communities to gather data, annotate it, and identify use cases where the tool might be problematic.
Bonaventure Dossou, a researcher at Lelapa AI specializing in natural-language processing (NLP), says that working with linguists enables them to develop a model thatâs context-specific and culturally relevant. âEmbedding cultural sensitivity and linguistic perspectives makes the technological system better,â says Dossou. For example, the Lelapa AI team built sentiment and tone analysis algorithms tailored to specific languages.
