OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Talks AGI, AI Workers, And AI Superintelligence
Sam Altman penned a blog post on his website titled Reflections, where he mused on the brief history of ChatGPT and where OpenAI is heading -- AGI came up right away.
OpenAI celebrated ChatGPT’s second anniversary in a big way a few weeks ago. The company held a massive “12 Days” press event, with each day bringing a new AI feature to various products. ChatGPT was a big focus and received various interesting upgrades in December, including a next-gen reasoning model (o3) that should see a wider release in the near future.
However, OpenAI did not announce an upgrade for the main model most people use. That’s GPT-4o, which supports Advanced Voice Mode and multimodality. The model was launched in May, so it shouldn’t feel like we need something newer and more powerful.
However, the AI industry is moving at break-neck speeds compared to the rest of the tech landscape, and we’ve come to expect innovations to drop at a faster rate. Google is doing the same thing; everyone is. It’s clear that OpenAI doesn’t have GPT-5 ready for a teaser announcement. Reports say the firm is struggling with training the AI and is running behind a self-imposed schedule.
Rather than detailing any of that, Sam Altman is doing what you’d probably expect from the CEO of a for-profit company. He’s teasing the near (or more distant) future of AI by talking about AGI (artificial general intelligence) and the next step after that, AI superintelligence.
“As we get closer to AGI, it feels like an important time to look at the progress of our company. There is still so much to understand, still so much we don’t know, and it’s still so early. But we know a lot more than we did when we started …”
More on OpenAI’s progress and Altman’s blog post on BGR
What Is A Loss Function? Understanding How AI Models Learn | IBM’s Martin Keen
Unlock the power of loss functions to optimize your AI models and drive better results. Join Martin Keen as he explores the world of loss functions, revealing the secrets to creating more accurate and efficient AI models.
From regression to classification, learn how to harness the potential of loss functions to transform your AI applications and improve model performance.
These AI Smart Glasses Have A Tiny Little Screen Hidden In The Frame
The Halliday Glasses also include ‘proactive AI’ and a trackpad ring control interface.
Halliday Glasses have boarded the smart spectacles hype train, featuring “proactive” AI assistance and a near-eye display that shows information directly in the user’s field of view. Wearable technology startup Halliday says its flagship eyewear will be available sometime after CES. Shipping is expected to start “by the end of Q1 2025,” and pricing will be set somewhere between $399 and $499 — pricier than display-free competitors like the $299 Meta Ray-Bans and Solos AirGo Vision.
Halliday says the “DigiWindow” located in the upper right of the frame is the world’s smallest and lightest near-eye display module and can display information to the wearer “regardless of whether they have perfect eyesight or require vision correction.” The display appears as a 3.5-inch screen in the upper-right corner of the user’s view with minimal obstruction, according to Halliday, and remains visible in bright sunlight.
The glasses’ built-in display works alongside an AI assistant that can anticipate what users need by analyzing conversations, answering questions, and providing additional insights without requiring a prompt. “For instance, during a meeting, it can proactively answer complex questions, summarize key discussion points, and generate summarized meeting notes afterward,” Halliday said in its announcement.
More about Halliday AI Smart Glasses on The Verge
Google Veo 2 Demo | Epic Action Scenes
Jerrod Lew demonstrates some action movie style sequences, produced by Google’s new Veo 2 AI video generation model. Although not as realistic as the animals, these are the types of imagery I expect to see in a surrealistic action-hero genre movie.
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To Interact With the Real World, AI Will Gain Physical Intelligence | Daniela Rus
By grappling with the messy and unpredictable side of existence, machine learning can have impact beyond the digital. Recent AI models are surprisingly humanlike in their ability to generate text, audio, and video when prompted. However, so far these algorithms have largely remained relegated to the digital world, rather than the physical, three-dimensional world we live in.
In fact, whenever we attempt to apply these models to the real world even the most sophisticated struggle to perform adequately—just think, for instance, of how challenging it has been to develop safe and reliable self-driving cars. While artificially intelligent, not only do these models simply have no grasp of physics but they also often hallucinate, which leads them to make inexplicable mistakes.
T his is the year, however, when AI will finally make the leap from the digital world to the real world we inhabit. Expanding AI beyond its digital boundary demands reworking how machines think, fusing the digital intelligence of AI with the mechanical prowess of robotics.
This is what I call “physical intelligence”, a new form of intelligent machine that can understand dynamic environments, cope with unpredictability, and make decisions in real time. Unlike the models used by standard AI, physical intelligence is rooted in physics; in understanding the fundamental principles of the real world, such as cause-and-effect.
Continue reading Daniela Rus’ perspectives on physical intelligence
Google Project Astra Early Access Demo
Meet Ash, an early access trusted tester for Project Astra. Follow along as she uses Project Astra to personalize her learning experience and complement her curious nature — from identifying the unique decor around her house to accurately translating messages from her mother to English.
The Gambling Industry's New Way To Get Americans To Make Bigger Bets
Narrativa is among a crop of startups seizing on the artificial intelligence boom to enthusiastically automate writing tasks that would once have fallen to humans. From penning regulatory documentation for Pfizer to zhuzhing up marketing copy for insurance and e-commerce firms and helping generate breaking news articles for The Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles-based Narrativa boasts roughly 50 clients in various industries. But one of its core focus areas, comprising a quarter of its business, is a little more polarizing than the rest: gambling.
Working with major industry players like 888 and Betway, Narrativa uses large language models to pump out everything from automated summaries of sports games to SEO-friendly reviews of online casino games and promotional social media posts. With no humans required, the 20-person company's AI tools produce 10 million words a month for gambling clients — the effective output of 170-odd full-time writers producing a grueling 3,000 words a day. It's all in service of enticing gamblers to place more bets.
"You want to create a community, you want people coming back for more," Matthew Rector, Narrativa's vice president of content, says. "You want to foster that environment, and our content helps facilitate that."
More on Narrativa’s automation and betting content
Let's Develop Artificial Intelligence Like Rock Music | Dr. Sven Körner | TEDxHHN
Dr. Sven Körner explores how AI can take inspiration from the unexpected discovery of overdriven guitar sounds. Just as distortion revolutionized music, AI can amplify human potential.
By embracing new AI technologies, we can push boundaries and enhance creativity. Körner encourages experimentation with AI, drawing parallels between human-machine collaboration and the evolution of music.
Highlighting the importance of diversity and innovative thinking, he urges us to leverage AI as a powerful tool to amplify our capabilities and drive technological advancements.
Dr. Sven Körner is an award-winning cognitive/semantic computing researcher and a top 20 global expert in AI technologies, specializing in natural language processing and semantics.
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