ai and me

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman appeared on Cleo Abram's podcast in August where he said the company was “tempted” to add sexual content in the past, but resisted, saying that a “sex bot avatar” in ChatGPT would be a move to “juice growth.” In light of his announcement last week that ChatGPT would soon offer erotica, revisiting that conversation is... See more

The Foundation’s findings align with other research we’ve seen recently. In July, the Pew Research Center found that only 1 percent of Google searches resulted in the users clicking on the link in the AI summary, which takes them to the page Google is summarizing. In April, the Foundation previously reported that it was getting hammered by AI... See more

They always talk about a model scoring 99.7% on a test. Well, how about a joke test? I confidently presume the answer is currently no, and I think it stays no for a long time, even at their most capable. This isn’t a moralistic “go humans” judgment; it’s the technical reality. They operate on a probability distribution of data. I love the idea that... See more

OpenAI seems more likely to monetize its platform through revenue-sharing deals or auctioning off placement. Maybe you ask for help with algebra, OpenAI loops in the Coursera app, and takes a finder’s fee if you become a paid user of the latter.

To OpenAI executives, the move helps them pursue what they describe as the goal they had before they got... See more