๐ Altman's Return, AI Investment Insights, Demystifying AI Wrappers
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Microsoft joins OpenAI's board with Sam Altman officially back as CEO. Sam Altman is officially OpenAI's CEO again. Just before Thanksgiving, the company said it had reached a deal in principle for him to return, and now it's done. Microsoft is getting a non-voting observer seat on the nonprofit board that controls OpenAI as well, the company announced on Wednesday. By Alex Heath via The Verge
๐: Microsoft is joining OpenAIโs board with Sam Altman officially back as CEO. Microsoft will join the board as a โnon-voting observerโ - Tom Warren (@tomwarren)
AI is easy to control. Why are billions of dollars being poured into artificial intelligence R&D this year? Companies certainly expect to get a return on their investment. Arguably, the main reason AI is profitable is that it is more controllable than human labor. The personality and conduct of an AI can be controlled to much finer grained precision than that of any human employee. optimists.ai
๐: AI systems are white boxes that we design As such, they are way easier to align than humans and animals which are black-boxes with all kinds of hard-wired objectives that are immutable and may or may not be "aligned", whatever you mean by that. - Yann LeCun (@ylecun)
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Why do AI Wrappers get a bad (w)rap? What's this? Exploring trends and ideas in the AI space. Breaking down what others have done and what other opportunities are out there. AI wrappers are tools that send info to an AI API and give you the output. That's the simple version. By Ben Tossell via bensbites.beehiiv.com
๐: I wrote a thing this morning about AI wrappers. Breaking down some successful ones highlighting opportunities you could jump on lmk if i should do more of these - Ben Tossell (@bentossell)
Loft Orbital is launching 'virtual missions' for developers wanting access to space. SaaS โ software-as-a-service โ was the paradigmatic acronym for startups operating over the last decade. But if Loft Orbital has its way, SaaS will soon come to mean something very different: space infrastructure-as-a-service. By Aria Alamalhodaei via TechCrunch
Artificial Intelligence Needs Open-Source Models to Reach Its Potential. Johannes Gutenberg's printing press revolutionized life in the 15th century, making it possible for ideas to travel around the world at previously unimaginable speeds and creating huge gains for mankind. Gutenberg tried to keep his technique a secret, but a disgruntled former investor, Johann Fust, soon replicated his device. By Kai-Fu Lee via Wall Street Journal
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