OpenAI was in open revolt on Monday with 490 employees threatening to leave unless the board resigns and reinstates Sam Altman as CEO, along with cofounder and former president Greg Brockman. Altman was controversially fired by the board on Friday. “The process through which you terminated Sam Altman and removed Read more…
Amazon “is investing millions in training an ambitious large language model,” reports Reuters, “hoping it could rival top models from OpenAI and Alphabet, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters.” The model, codenamed as “Olympus”, has 2 trillion parameters, the people said, which could make it one of the Read more…
A professor of religion at Columbia University writes, “I do not think human beings are the last stage in the evolutionary process.” Whatever comes next will be neither simply organic nor simply machinic but will be the result of the increasingly symbiotic relationship between human beings and technology. Bound together Read more…
NFTs aren’t gone yet. Disney will launch an ‘all-new socially driven collectible experience’ called Disney Pinnacle later this year, turning characters from Pixar, Star Wars, and its classic animated films into tradable digital pins. While announcing Pinnacle, Disney and its partner Dapper Labs won’t even say the word “NFT.” Dapper Read more…
Microsoft’s stock price plumetted 16% after OpenAI fired CEO Sam Altman — but appears to have immediately recovered most of the drop in after-hours trading. Yet OpenAI’s move also blindsided key investor and minority owner Microsoft, reportedly making CEO Satya Nadella furious. Tech reporter Kara Swisher called the firing a Read more…
Sam Altman has been fired as CEO of OpenAI, the company announced on Friday. Slashdot reader tagous submitted this statement from OpenAI’s board: Mr. Altman’s departure follows a deliberative review process by the board, which concluded that he was not consistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its Read more…
According to a new study published in JAMA Internal Medicine, women in the U.S. are now projected to live about six years longer than U.S. men. [T]he 2021 data represent the largest gender-based life expectancy gap in the U.S. since 1996. The gulf began to widen before the COVID-19 pandemic, Read more…