2024-11-27
New: OpenAI shut down all access to its video generator Sora after a group of artists among the early testers publicly shared access to it in protest at their treatment by the company, reporting from @nitashatiku
Washington Post
OpenAI suspends early access to Sora after ~20 artists leaked access to the tool in protest of the company's treatment of creative professionals as “PR puppets”
A group of artists created a webpage allowing anyone to make AI videos using Sora. They argue the maker of ChatGPT used artists as “PR puppets” without pay.
2024-08-06
San Francisco's chief economist is not too worried about X moving out of the city. “It's a much smaller company now ... We may have gotten the most out of it that we were ever gonna get.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... via @TrishaThadani
New York Times
In an email to staff, Linda Yaccarino says X will close its San Francisco office and move workers to San Jose offices and a new Palo Alto office shared with xAI
Elon Musk, X's owner, has clashed with California's leaders and has said the social media platform would move its headquarters to Texas.
2024-05-29
Yesterday: Two former OpenAI board members stand by their decision to fire Sam Altman, warning “self-governance mechanisms like those employed by OpenAI will not suffice” Today: OpenAI launches new AI safety committee consisting of Sam Altman and three other board members.
New York Times
OpenAI creates a Safety and Security Committee to explore AI risks and begins training its new flagship AI model, which won't arrive for at least nine months
Yesterday: Two former OpenAI board members stand by their decision to fire Sam Altman, warning “self-governance mechanisms like those employed by OpenAI will not suffice” Today: OpenAI launches new AI safety committee consisting of Sam Altman and three other board members.
Bloomberg
In a podcast, ex-OpenAI board member Helen Toner says the board learned of ChatGPT's launch on Twitter, criticizes Sam Altman's leadership on safety, and more
- Helen Toner spoke about Sam Altman's firing in a new podcast — Toner has called for more regulation around AI safety
2024-05-10
New: ChatGPT may be getting an adults-only mode. OpenAI is exploring how it can “responsibly provide the ability to generate NSFW content in age-appropriate contexts” https://www.wired.com/... via @Knibbs and Reece Rogers
The Guardian
As part of its Model Spec release, OpenAI says it is considering letting developers and users “responsibly” generate “NSFW content in age-appropriate contexts”
2024-02-12
Is the sanctimonious chatbot GOODY-2 a silly joke or making a serious point about AI? Yes https://www.wired.com/... via @willknight
Wired
An interview with Mike Lacher and Brian Moore, who created Goody-2, a joke AI chatbot that refuses every query to “prioritize safety and the prevention of harm”
2024-02-11
Is the sanctimonious chatbot GOODY-2 a silly joke or making a serious point about AI? Yes https://www.wired.com/... via @willknight
Wired
Interview with Mike Lacher and Brian Moore, creators of AI chatbot Goody-2, which was created as a joke and refuses to answer every query to prioritize safety
Self-righteous chatbot Goody-2 was built to take AI guardrails to an illogical extreme. The artists behind the project say there's a serious point behind the gag.
2024-02-03
Apple's autonomous car testing is ramping up: Filings with the California DMV show the company's autonomous tests went nearly half a million miles on public roads in 2023, nearly quadruple the previous year's total. via @AarianMarshall https://www.wired.com/...
Wired
California records show Apple's self-driving cars drove about 452K miles in 2023, up 4x from 2022 and 30x from 2021, but well below Waymo's 6M+ miles
Government records show Apple's secretive auto division almost quadrupled its self-driving miles in 2023.
2023-05-11
@SkyLi0n ... The last time Google made such an abrupt pivot in response to a perceived threat is probably the launch of Google+ in 2011
Google on YouTube
A video of the Google I/O 2023 keynote, where the company announced the Pixel 7a, Pixel Fold, Pixel Tablet, its PaLM 2 general-use LLM, Search updates, and more
Tune in to find out how we're furthering our mission to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.
2023-04-05
In December, Amazon tried to make its first drone deliver to a customer in Lockeford, California. But the drone's flight software wouldn't boot. A second drone made the 1,500 foot trip but turned back because the QR code in the customer's yard got moved. https://www.wired.com/...
Wired
A look at Amazon failing to clear US drone delivery technical and regulatory hurdles, like not getting FAA certification to fly over active roadways and people
2023-01-30
Three times since December, GM's driverless car unit Cruise called 911 in San Francisco because a passenger had become “unresponsive.” Each time, police and firefighters found the passenger had simply fallen asleep. The city says that wasted public funds. https://www.wired.com/...
NBC News
San Francisco asked California regulators to halt or scale back the expansion of Cruise and Waymo, after repeated incidents with stopped and idle robotaxis
SAN FRANCISCO — San Francisco is trying to slow the expansion of robotaxis after repeated incidents in which cars without drivers stopped …
2023-01-29
Three times since December, GM's driverless car unit Cruise called 911 in San Francisco because a passenger had become “unresponsive.” Each time, police and firefighters found the passenger had simply fallen asleep. The city says that wasted public funds. https://www.wired.com/...
NBC News
San Francisco asked California regulators to halt or scale back the expansion of Cruise and Waymo, after repeated incidents with stopped and idle robotaxis
SAN FRANCISCO — San Francisco is trying to slow the expansion of robotaxis after repeated incidents in which cars without drivers stopped …
2022-12-05
.@LaurenGoode: “What does it mean when we become a society that has people using buy now, pay later for gas, or for food?” Max Levchin: “I think that's very good for society. https://www.wired.com/...
Wired
An interview with Affirm co-founder Max Levchin on the US CFPB's probe into BNPL services, issues with credit cards, the current economic environment, and more
Lauren Goode / Wired : Tweets: @laurengoode , @laurengoode , @laurengoode , @laurengoode , @laurengoode , @laurengoode , @wired , @usmanbk77 , @tsimonite , @waltmossberg , and @ml...
2022-11-05
April: Elon Musk agrees to buy Twitter and says its algorithms will be open sourced Today: Elon Musk lays off Twitter's research team working on algorithmic transparency, which had found right-leaning accounts get an algorithmic boost https://www.wired.com/... via @willknight
Platformer
Sources describe Twitter after mass layoffs: key teams gutted, severance packages account for WARN Act, ad hoc directories of remaining workers in Google Docs
I. The Snap — The email went out at 5:21 PT PT on Thursday. — For a full week, Twitter employees had waited in hopes …
April: Elon Musk agrees to buy Twitter and says its algorithms will be open sourced Today: Elon Musk lays off Twitter's research team working on algorithmic transparency, which had found right-leaning accounts get an algorithmic boost https://www.wired.com/... via @willknight
Washington Post
Twitter lays off about half its staff, sending a “Your Role at Twitter” email to their company account for those staying and personal account for those leaving
which was maybe ~80-100 people — is down to just two people after layoffs today.... Will Oremus / @willoremus : Here's the first official communication from Twitter's new leadershi...
2022-10-09
Snapshot from a conversation with a chatbot called “Black Guy” made available by https://t.co/..., the chatbot startup from Google engineers. Other user-generated chatbots include “Jewish guy,” “Needy girlfriend,” and “White woke feminist” https://twitter.com/...
Washington Post
An interview with Character.ai's founders, who say they left Google's LaMDA project to let users experiment with the latest in language AI through chatbots
The creators of Google's LaMDA have launched the chatbot startup Character.ai, which is open for anyone to try
2022-09-29
Amazon's home robot Astro isn't that useful—but the company is committed to the project because it sees a roving smart camera as the best way to understand and preempt your every whim https://www.wired.com/... via @willknight
TechCrunch
Amazon's $1,000 Astro robot gets pet detection, the ability to check specific windows and doors, Ring camera integration, and an SDK for three universities
2022-06-02
By my calculations that's one Google messaging app down—bye bye Duo—leaving 37 to go https://www.theverge.com/...
The Verge
Google plans to combine its Duo and Meet video calling apps into a single platform later in 2022, using Duo's app as the foundation under the Google Meet brand
Sheryl Sandberg's goodbye note says that when she first met Mark Zuckerberg she “Thought the internet was a largely anonymous place to search for funny pictures.” At the time she was VP for ad sales at Google. https://www.facebook.com/...
CNBC
Sheryl Sandberg is leaving Meta this fall after 14 years, and chief growth officer Javier Olivan will take over as COO; Sandberg will stay on Meta's board
Sheryl Sandberg is stepping down from her role as Chief Operating Officer at Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook. Source: Sheryl Sandberg .
2022-05-20
Does Twitter's definition of “vulnerable groups” here include its own shareholders? https://twitter.com/...
Twitter