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Metaverse book gets boring rename in latest sign of waning enthusiasm

The growing malaise for metaverse hype is reminiscent of the AI sector directly before the launch of GPT-3.

Matthew Ball, former global head of strategy at Amazon Studios and author of the 2022 book “The Metaverse: And How It Will Revolutionize Everything,” is re-releasing the book under a new, more underwhelming title: “Building the Spatial Internet.”

To be clear, the book will still be called “The Metaverse,” but the spatial internet bit will replace the former language indicating that the metaverse would revolutionize everything.

Evidently, after two years, the revolution has either come and gone or remains impending. Either way, on July 23, the book's newest edition launches.

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SETI, NASA scientists think AI could teach aliens about Earth

The question is: which model best represents humanity?

Artificial intelligence is currently eating the world. Whether you believe it’ll lead to superintelligent machines, the end of humanity, or a bursting bubble, its impact can already be felt in industries around the globe. 

It’s also spreading beyond our little blue and green planet. We’ve got AI in satellites, IBM’s Watson did a tour aboard the International Space Station, and NASA is currently working to integrate AI technologies into future spacecraft.

Soon, if a pair of scientists at the forefront of the search for alien life get their way, we’ll be sending chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT to explain humanity and life on Earth to extraterrestrials.

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ChatGPT X account replicates Joe Biden’s ‘I’m sick’ post

The official X account for OpenAI’s ChatGPT used the same “I’m sick” post as United States President Joe Biden did before playfully mocking general intelligence.

The X account for OpenAI’s ChatGPT has light-heartedly replicated a post by United States President Joe Biden, which was commonly interpreted as “I’m sick” in relation to his recent positive COVID-19 diagnosis. Biden, however, used the statement with a different twist to mock billionaire investor Elon Musk.

“I’m sick,” ChatGPT wrote in a July 20 post on X, before similarly playing on the words, by elaborating “of general intelligence not being ubiquitous and too cheap to meter.” 

It was only two days prior to Biden making a similar “I’m Sick” post before making a claim that Musk is attempting to “buy the election.” The post comes amid Biden facing calls from some in the Democratic Party to step aside in the 2024 election.

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OpenAI turns to Broadcom as Musk, Zuckerberg snatch up Nvidia AI chips

The run on training hardware has put chipmakers at the forefront of the general artificial intelligence boom.

OpenAI is reportedly in talks with Broadcom and other chip makers in what appears to be an urgent effort to expand its artificial intelligence operations. 

AI models such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Meta’s Llama are typically trained using massive clusters of graphical processing units (GPUs) or similar computer chips. The most popular hardware, the H100, belongs to Nvidia.

The H100 can cost anywhere from $15,000 to $30,000, depending on the number purchased and current market conditions. It can take tens of thousands of these AI chips to train a single model, with more necessary for larger, more robust systems.

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OpenAI launches new super-efficient, low-latency ‘GPT-4o mini’

The new model purportedly offers comparable performance at a fraction of the cost.

US-based artificial intelligence firm OpenAI announced the launch of a new generative AI model dubbed “GPT-4o mini” on July 18.

According to a blog post from OpenAI, the new model is “an order of magnitude more affordable than previous frontier models,” and “more than 60% cheaper than GPT-3.5 Turbo.”

GPT-4o mini is essentially the cost-effective version of the current top-of-the-line consumer model for OpenAI’s flagship product, ChatGPT.

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Skild AI announces $300M funding from Jeff Bezos, Softbank to build ‘robot brains’

Another unicorn has entered the race the develop human-level AI.

Artificial intelligence firm Skild AI recently emerged from stealth to report the successful closing of a $300 million series A funding round featuring participation by Jeff Bezos and Softbank among others.

Skild AI is a Carnegie Mellon spinout focused on building an AI system capable of being retrofitted to various machines and robotics devices called a “general-purpose brain.”

According to a company blog post, the funding was raised at a valuation of $1.5 billion and was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, Coatue, SoftBank Group, and Jeff Bezos (through Bezos Expeditions). It also featured participation from Felicis Ventures, Sequoia, Menlo Ventures, General Catalyst, CRV, Amazon, SV Angel, and Carnegie Mellon University.

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Whistleblowers asked the SEC to investigate OpenAI over alleged illegal NDAs

The complainants called the matter "urgent," but it remains unclear if the SEC will open an investigation.

Parties representing anonymous whistleblowers from artificial intelligence firm OpenAI have reportedly filed a grievance with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission over the firm’s alleged use of illegal non-disclosure agreements (NDAs). 

Documents sent exclusively to the Washington Post, per a report, indicate that a group of whistleblowers associated with OpenAI filed a complaint with the SEC in June alleging the company made former employees sign restrictive, illegal NDAs in order to prevent them from discussing safety and other concerns with federal agents.

According to the post, the documents it received, linked here, were sent to the newspaper by Senator Chuck Grassley’s office:

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Former OpenAI employee quit to avoid ‘working for the Titanic of AI’

The real question is: Who or what is the iceberg in this scenario?

William Saunders, a former OpenAI employee and member of the company’s “superalignment team,” recently disclosed that he quit the company because he felt it was on a collision course with tragedy, much like the ill-fated R.M.S. Titanic in 1912.

As spotted by Business Insider, Saunders gave his commentary during an episode of technology journalist Alex Kantrowitz’s podcast.

Saunders told Kantrowitz that during his three years at OpenAI, he would sometimes ask himself if the company was on a path that was “more like the Apollo program or more like the Titanic.“

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ChatGPT users on macOS shocked to learn chats were stored unencrypted

The problem has since been resolved, but it begs the question of how such an oversight happened in the first place.

The partnership between Apple and OpenAI is off to a rocky start as ChatGPT users on macOS recently learned their conversations were being stored in plain-text files. 

Apple has positioned itself as a company that prioritizes privacy in a market where many of its competitors reap a lion’s share of their profits by selling or repurposing user data. But, as demonstrated by data and electronics engineer Pedro José Pereira Vieito in a post on Meta’s Threads, somebody dropped the ball when it came to OpenAI’s third-party integration of ChatGPT on macOS.

ChatGPT was released on macOS in May to subscribers. General access for non-subscriber accounts was made available on June 25. Until Friday, July 5, however, the app stored all chat logs in unencrypted plain-text files on users’ hard drives.

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Softbank lost 99% when the dotcom bubble burst, now it’s all-in on AI

Softbank Group stocks reached an all-time-high on a market capitalization of $97.2 billion.

Softbank Group Corporation’s stock rose 1.5% to reach an all-time-high on Tuesday, July 2. The high mark comes just a few years after the company saw its shares plummet amid the closure of numerous high-profile tech startups, including WeWork, and a tech sector crackdown by the Chinese government.

Analysts have largely attributed the Japanese company’s recent uptick to its pivot toward artificial intelligence and the performance of its computing subsidiary Arm Holdings.

As Cointelegraph recently reported, company founder and chairman Masayoshi Son recently announced that Softbank would pursue greater involvement in artificial intelligence (AI) technologies.

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