From Nonprofit to Nonsense: Is OpenAI a Long Con?

In the course of a year, the tech industry’s dreary post-social, post-crypto interregnum was rapidly supplanted — largely as the result of public-facing efforts by OpenAI, which is reportedly in talks with Microsoft about a potential $10 billion investment — by a story about inevitable technologies that are  so  transformat

The ultimate risk of AI

Key takeaways:

• In the future, searching on Google may be replaced by asking Google a question and receiving a direct answer.

• Language models regulated by a governing body could narrow down information and ideas to acceptable speech.

• Maintaining the reputation and trustworthiness of a source of information is important to p

OpenAI, which has been accused by its peers of releasing tools to the public with reckless speed, is particularly good at designing interfaces for its models that feel like magic. “It’s a conscious design imperative to produce these moments of shock and awe,” Crawford says. “We’re going to keep having those moments of enchantment.”