OpenAI Expects ‘To Raise a Lot More Over Time’ From Microsoft, Others To Build ‘Superintelligence’

OpenAI plans to secure further financial backing from its biggest investor Microsoft as the ChatGPT maker’s chief executive Sam Altman pushes ahead with his vision to create artificial general intelligence (AGI) — computer software as intelligent as humans. From a report: In an interview with the Financial Times, Altman said Read more…

Is Capitalism Dead? Yanis Varoufakis Argues Capitalists are Now Vassals to ‘Techno-Feudalists’

Greek economist/politician Yanis Varoufakis “was briefly Greek finance minister in 2015,” remembers the Conversation. Now his new book asks the question, “What killed capitalism,” with the title’s first word providing an answer. Varoufakis argues that we no longer live in a capitalist society… “Today, capitalist relations remain intact, but techno-feudalist Read more…