Bytes: Week in Review — X’s transparency report, Sam Altman’s “Intelligence Age” and Meta’s celebrity chatbots
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🗓️ 27 September 2024
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It’s perhaps not a big surprise, but OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has a very optimistic take on what his company’s technology could mean for the world. He shared his vision of a near future transformed by ever-advancing artificial intelligence systems in a much-discussed blog post earlier this week. Plus, Meta revealed more of its AI plans at its big developer conference including another go at celebrity chatbots. But first, X, formerly Twitter, finally released a new transparency report. It’s the first one since 2022, when Elon Musk bought the platform. And it’s full of data on reported abuse, harassment, how many accounts were suspended and more. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino discussed these topics and more with Anita Ramaswamy, columnist at The Information, on this week’s Tech Bytes: Week in Review.
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| 1:02.0 | From American Public Media, this is Marketplace Tech. I'm Megan McCarty Carino. Yeah, perhaps not a big surprise, but open AI Sam Altman has a very optimistic take on what his company's technology could mean for the world. |
| 1:27.0 | He shared his vision of a near future transformed by ever advancing artificial intelligence systems in a much discussed blog post earlier |
| 1:35.9 | this week. |
| 1:36.9 | We'll be getting into it all on this week's TechBites week in review. |
| 1:41.2 | Plus Meta revealed more of its AI plans at its big developer conference, including But first, X, formerly Twitter, finally released a new transparency report. |
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