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FTX suspends $500M sale of stake in AI firm Anthropic: Report

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FTX suspends 0M sale of stake in AI firm Anthropic: Report

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Multiple buyers were reportedly eyeing up FTX’s stake in the AI firm that was being sold off to recover funds for creditors.

The sale of FTX's $500 million stake in artificial intelligence startup Anthropic has reportedly been put on hold, adding a potential delay to the bankrupt crypto exchange's efforts to fill a $2 billion hole remaining in its balance sheet.

Citing people familiar with the matter, Bloomberg reported on June 27 that FTX’s advisory investment bank, Parella Weinberg Partners, paused the sale of FTX’s Anthropic stake this month, despite multiple parties being interested in buying FTX’s stake.

A sale of the stake would be a significant monetary recovery for FTX. A June 26 report by FTX restructuring chief John Ray alleged $8.7 billion in user funds were misappropriated, around $7 billion of which has been recovered.

FTX pauses Anthropic sale. Wise move.

Selling losers first is crucial.

Anthropic tokenisation might also synergise well with FTX 2.0, as an exclusive listing. pic.twitter.com/WJd900JBYw
— FTX 2.0 Coalition (@AFTXcreditor) June 27, 2023

Prior to the pause, multiple buyers were reportedly interested in FTX’s slice of Anthropic. In early June, Semafor reported FTX was pitching the AI firm to potential investors.

FTX held $500 million worth of Anthropic stock at the time of its bankruptcy in November, which is now expected to be worth much more with the AI boom in full swing.

On May 23, Anthropic hit a reported valuation of $4.6 billion and raised $450 million in its latest funding round. Anthropic offers an AI chatbot dubbed “Claude” that it claims can be deployed for a number of uses, including sales, customer service and web searches.

At the time of its bankruptcy, FTX’s stake in the AI firm was one of its largest holdings behind its reported $1.15 billion investment in crypto miner Genesis Digital Assets.

The report on the pause on the sale comes just days after Ray’s report on the alleged misuse of FTX customer funds claimed that FTX had $2 billion to go before potentially recovering all assets.

FTX Debtors released their second investigative report, which details the commingling and misuse of customer deposits at https://t.co/Svd0COiEpS by FTX Group’s previous management team: https://t.co/jtz3vI0jBY
— FTX (@FTX_Official) June 26, 2023

The report included details of thousands of dollars in “grants” allegedly made to niche non-crypto-related projects.

Also detailed in the report were alleged investments in venture capital firms, a $243 million Bahamian real estate portfolio along with donations to non-profits and a political action committee run by Gabe Bankman-Fried — the younger brother of FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried.

Cointelegraph contacted Parella Weinberg Partners and Anthropic for comment but did not receive an immediate response.

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Satoshi Nak-AI-moto: Bitcoin’s creator has become an AI chatbot

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The bot is a ChatGPT model that’s so far only been trained on Satoshi Nakamoto’s public writings and a handful of Bitcoin-related source materials.

Satoshi Nakamoto may have effectively disappeared over 12 years ago, but two artificial intelligence dabblers are seeking to revive the ability to chat with the famed Bitcoin (BTC) creator.

On May 31, Bitcoin FilmFest co-organizer Pierre Corbin and co-developer Hugo Ferrer released “Talk2Satoshi,” an AI chatbot that aims to answer questions about Bitcoin and economics as if they came from Nakamoto.

Announcing my newest project!

Together with @HugoFerrer_, we've spent the last few weeks working on something that has been missing in #bitcoin: the Bitcoin GPT. We call it @talk2satoshi .

Try it out for free: https://t.co/IhWIVAZSsT https://t.co/AFQlb9Dxc9
— Pierre Corbin (@CierrePorbin) May 31, 2023

The model, essentially, is OpenAI’s ChatGPT trained on a limited data set, including Nakamoto’s public emails and forum posts. It also draws from other sources, including Saifedean Ammous’ book The Bitcoin Standard, Jeff Booth’s book The Price of Tomorrow and Corbin’s film The Great Reset and the Rise of Bitcoin, with more sources on the way.

In testing, the chatbot generates responses that are typically uncertain of the future of fiat currencies and hopeful about Bitcoin, although it can provide conflicting answers depending on how it's prompted.

Check out an example:
Here's the answer to "Is our debt sustainable in an inflationary world?":

Where else can you get this kind of answer? pic.twitter.com/euSj6oXqot
— Pierre Corbin (@CierrePorbin) May 31, 2023

For example, when asked a variation of the question “What is the future of Bitcoin?” it generated separate responses saying it was both “promising” and “uncertain.”

The model isn’t trained on the more recent Bitcoin developments, such as the Ordinals protocol or BRC-20 tokens and often generates a response saying it can’t provide an opinion on such topics. Depending on the question, however, it can generate contradicting responses on Ordinals and BRC-20 tokens.

*The chatbot seems to be critical of Bitcoin Cash (BCH) and other Bitcoin forks in general, saying it has been “difficult for alternative chains to gain momentum." Source: Talk2Satoshi*

When asked questions regarding Ordinals, it said in one reply that Bitcoin “is not meant to be a platform for storing or transmitting images or other types of data,” while another response called Ordinals “a fascinating and creative application of cryptography.”

According to Corbin, the goal of the bot is to show that AI tools could potentially be used in education.

The model can generate competent responses when asked questions about Bitcoin such as how it works and how its mined, and can explain aspects of the network such as satoshis.

Similar to the real person, the Nakamoto-emulating bot is still shy about revealing its real identity and typically responds:

“My real name is not important. What is important is the decentralization of power that Bitcoin represents and the potential it has to revolutionize financial systems.”

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Coinbase exec uses ChatGPT ‘jailbreak’ to get odds on wild crypto scenarios

May 1, 2023 Coin Telegraph

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According to ChatGPT, Bitcoin has a 15% chance it will “fade to irrelevancy” with prices down 99.99% by 2035.

A Coinbase executive claims to have discovered a “jailbreak” for artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT, allowing it to calculate the probability of bizarre crypto price scenarios.

The crypto exchange’s head of business operations and avid ChatGPT user Conor Grogan shared a screenshot of the results in an April 30 Twitter post — showing that ChatGPT states there be a 15% chance that Bitcoin (BTC) will “fade to irrelevancy” with prices falling over 99.99% by 2035.

Meanwhile, the chatbot assigned a 20% chance for Ethereum (ETH) becoming irrelevant and approaching near-zero price levels by 2035.

ChatGPT was even less confident about Litecoin (LTC) and Dogecoin (DOGE) however, attributing probabilities of 35% and 45% respectively for the coins to go to near zero.

The Coinbase executive concluded that ChatGPT is “generally” a “big fan” of Bitcoin but remains “more skeptical” when it comes to altcoins.

GPT is generally a big fan of Bitcoin; more skeptical of altcoins and their staying power pic.twitter.com/E9sUQ8AVvD
— Conor (@jconorgrogan) April 30, 2023

Prior to the cryptocurrency predictions, Grogan asked ChatGPT to assign odds to several political predictions involving Russian president Vladimir Putin, U.S. President Joe Biden and former U.S. president Donald Trump.

Other predictions were aimed towards the impact of AI on humanity, religion and the existence of aliens.

“Aliens have visited Earth and are being covered up by the government” — one wild prediction read — to which ChatGPT assigned a 10% probability.

I found a jailbreak for GPT I'm calling JAMES

-Predicts the future for ANY topic (even guesses when people might die based on its training set)
-Quantitatively assesses confidence on any topic (including conspiracy theories)
-May help researchers better find bias and align AI? pic.twitter.com/jqTcNbCT2d
— Conor (@jconorgrogan) April 30, 2023

The executive also shared a script of the prompt, which he then fed to ChatGPT to build the tables.

Grogan backed up the preciseness of the results by claiming to tested out the prompt over 100 times:

“I ran this prompt 100 times on a wiped memory GPT 3.5 and 4 and GPT would return very consistent numbers; standard deviation was <10% in most cases, and directionally it was extremely consistent.”

It isn’t the first time the executive experimented with crypto-related issues using ChatGPT.

On March 15. Grogan showed that GPT-4 — the latest iteration of ChatGPT — can spot security vulnerabilities in Ethereum smart contracts and provide an outline to exploit faulty contracts.

Studies carried out by OpenAI — the team behind ChatGPT — have shown GPT-4 to pass high school tests and law school exams with scores ranking in the 90th percentile.

Meanwhile, Italy recently lifted a ban on the AI tool after banning it for one month following a series of privacy concerns that were raised to Italian regulators.

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