🧩 Exploring AI's Murky Data Practices, Google's Bias, and Microsoft's Strategic New Hire

Today’s pick

Have We Reached Peak AI?. Last week, the Wall Street Journal published a 10-minute-long interview with OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, with journalist Joanna Stern asking a series of thoughtful yet straightforward questions that Murati failed to satisfactorily answer. When asked about what data was used to train Sora, OpenAI's app for generating video with AI, Murati claimed it used publicly available data, and when Stern asked her whether it used videos from YouTube, Murati's face contorted in a mix of confusion and pain before saying she "actually wasn't sure about that. By Edward Zitron via Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At

𝕏: "a large part of the artificial intelligence boom is hot air, pumped through a combination of executive bullshitting and a compliant media that will gladly write stories imagining what AI can do rather than focus on what it's actually doing." - Abeba Birhane (@Abebab)

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Google's Woke AI Wasn't a Mistake. We Know. We Were There.. It was a display that would have blown even Orwell's mind: search for images of “Nazis” and Google's AI chatbot shows you almost exclusively artificially generated black Nazis ; search “knights” and you get female, Asian knights; search “popes” and it’s women popes.  By Francesca Block via The Free Press

𝕏: Who could possibly have guessed this? Oh yes James Damore - Dr Jordan B Peterson (@jordanbpeterson)

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Microsoft Hires DeepMind Co-Founder Suleyman to Run Consumer AI. Suleyman and his team will join from OpenAI rival Inflection AI Microsoft Corp. has named Mustafa Suleyman head of its consumer artificial intelligence business, hiring most of the staff from his Inflection AI startup as the software giant seeks to fend off Alphabet Inc.’s Google in the fiercely contested market for AI products. By Dina Bass via Bloomberg

𝕏: I’m excited to announce that today I’m joining @Microsoft as CEO of Microsoft AI. I’ll be leading all consumer AI products and research, including Copilot, Bing and Edge. My friend and longtime collaborator Karén Simonyan will be Chief Scientist, and several of our amazing teammates have chosen to join us. - Mustafa Suleyman (@mustafasuleyman)

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OpenAI is expected to release a 'materially better' GPT-5 for its chatbot mid-year, sources say. OpenAI's main product is the popular generative AI tool ChatGPT. Since its last major model upgrade to GPT-4, the tool has run into performance issues. The next version of the model, GPT-5, is set to come out soon. It's said to be "materially better." By Kali Hays via Business Insider

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Meta just showed off Threads' fediverse integration for the very first time. Threads is coming to the fediverse — and we just got our first official look at how that might work from Meta itself. During the FediForum conference on Tuesday, Meta's Peter Cottle showed off a brief demo of how users will eventually be will eventually be able to connect their accounts and posts to the fediverse. By Emma Roth via The Verge

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