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Nov 19, 2023

The Real Reason Sam Altman was FIRED From OpenAI

Posted by in categories: governance, robotics/AI

OpenAI is in discussions with Sam Altman to return to the company as its CEO, according to multiple people familiar with the matter. One of them said Altman, who was suddenly fired by the board on Friday with no notice, is “ambivalent” about coming back and would want significant governance changes. There have been some leaks on the real reason Sam Altman was fired from OpenAI’s largest investor, Microsoft, said in a statement shortly after Altman’s firing that the company “remains committed” to its partnership with the AI firm. However, OpenAI’s investors weren’t given advance warning or opportunity to weigh in on the board’s 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.

TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Vibes were off at OpenAI — Jimmy Apples.
00:55 Why Sam Altman was fired.
03:15 The Future of OpenAI and Sam Altman.

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Nov 19, 2023

An Aging Expert Thinks Humans Can Live for 20,000 Years. He’s Not Crazy

Posted by in category: life extension

That would be great!


There’s one major key to unlocking extreme longevity.

Nov 19, 2023

What to Know About OpenAI’s Chaotic Weekend

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Details about Sam Altman’s surprise departure as chief executive are still emerging, and the board has been tight-lipped so far.

On Friday, Mr. Altman was abruptly dismissed as OpenAI’s chief executive.

Nov 19, 2023

Ex-IBM CEO: Here’s the No. 1 thing my mom did to raise four highly successful executives

Posted by in category: business

Former IBM CEO Ginni Rometty and her three younger siblings all grew up to become high-powered business executives. This lesson from their mom helped, she says.

Nov 19, 2023

This week the latest Neom region in Saudi Arabia was revealed

Posted by in category: futurism

This week on Dezeen, Saudi Arabian mega-project Neom revealed its sixth region, Epicon, which will feature a pair of jagged skyscrapers on the Gulf of Aqaba.

Designed by architecture studio 10Design, the project will be distinguished by two steel-clad towers measuring 225 and 275 metres tall. They will be connected by horizontal levels set to contain an outdoor pool and other spaces.

Accommodating 41 hotel and luxury residences, the skyscrapers will be joined by the Epicon resort to form a luxury tourist destination.

Nov 19, 2023

Audi Will Only Build Electric Cars by the End of the Decade, the Company Says

Posted by in categories: sustainability, transportation

The company has already pledged to phase out all internal-combustion models by 2033.

Nov 19, 2023

Are We Actually Living in a Multiverse? The Basic Math May Be Wrong

Posted by in categories: alien life, mathematics, particle physics

One of the most startling scientific discoveries of recent decades is that physics appears to be fine-tuned for life. This means that for life to be possible, certain numbers in physics had to fall within a certain, very narrow range.

One of the examples of fine-tuning which has most baffled physicists is the strength of dark energy, the force that powers the accelerating expansion of the universe.

If that force had been just a little stronger, matter couldn’t clump together. No two particles would have ever combined, meaning no stars, planets, or any kind of structural complexity, and therefore no life.

Nov 19, 2023

Hypotheses devised by AI could find ‘blind spots’ in research

Posted by in categories: business, robotics/AI

In early October, as the Nobel Foundation announced the recipients of this year’s Nobel prizes, a group of researchers, including a previous laureate, met in Stockholm to discuss how artificial intelligence (AI) might have an increasingly creative role in the scientific process. The workshop, led in part by Hiroaki Kitano, a biologist and chief executive of Sony AI in Tokyo, considered creating prizes for AIs and AI–human collaborations that produce world-class science. Two years earlier, Kitano proposed the Nobel Turing Challenge1: the creation of highly autonomous systems (‘AI scientists’) with the potential to make Nobel-worthy discoveries by 2050.

It’s easy to imagine that AI could perform some of the necessary steps in scientific discovery. Researchers already use it to search the literature, automate data collection, run statistical analyses and even draft parts of papers. Generating hypotheses — a task that typically requires a creative spark to ask interesting and important questions — poses a more complex challenge. For Sendhil Mullainathan, an economist at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business in Illinois, “it’s probably been the single most exhilarating kind of research I’ve ever done in my life”

Nov 19, 2023

Elon Musk says the risk of advanced AI is so high that the public needs to know why OpenAI fired Sam Altman

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, robotics/AI

Elon Musk said that the potential danger of AI is so great that OpenAI, the most powerful artificial intelligence company in the world right now, should disclose the reason it fired CEO Sam Altman. OpenAI announced Altman’s firing on Friday, saying only that the company, which makes ChatGPT, “no longer has confidence in his ability to continue leading.”

Musk, responding to a post on X from former Yammer CEO David Sacks, said that “given the risk and power of advanced AI, the public should be informed of why the board felt they had to take such a drastic decision.”

Nov 19, 2023

Dr. Alison Todd’s Inventions May Save Your Life

Posted by in category: innovation

An inventor, molecular biologist, and diagnostic scientist, Dr. Todd cofounded SpeeDx, which serves communities worldwide. And that’s just the beginning.