Despite OpenAI Chaos, Wall Street Is Still Betting Big on AI
CYBER
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4 • 645 Ratings
🗓️ 22 November 2023
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
What happens when a for profit company is run by a non-profit board of directors who are ideologically opposed to the company’s product? You get something like what happened to OpenAI over the past week, which saw its board of directors sack CEO Sam Altman before eventually reinstating him and resigning. It’s a weird story that involves AI, predictions of the end of the world, strange pagan rites in Silicon Valley offices, and a Harry Potter fanfic.
Join us this week on Cyber as Motherboard senior editor Maxwell Strachan walks us through what the hell just happened and what it means for the future of AI.
Stories discussed in this episode:
Sam Altman Out at OpenAI ‘Effective Immediately’
Wall Street Embraces AI Despite Risks of Catastrophe
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| 0:00.0 | Tadmin's got the code it's going to launch. |
| 0:10.7 | It's a unit system. |
| 0:13.1 | I know this. |
| 0:15.1 | It's how all the files of the whole park. |
| 0:17.3 | It tells you everything. |
| 0:19.0 | Sir, he's uploading the virus. |
| 0:21.8 | Eagle one. |
| 0:22.6 | The package is being delivered. |
| 0:27.3 | What are you guys going to do for Thanksgiving? |
| 0:29.3 | I am already at my in-laws. |
| 0:32.6 | We're splitting the cooking up three ways, so I'll be doing that. |
| 0:36.6 | Starting as soon as I am done with work today. |
| 0:40.9 | What about you? |
| 0:43.0 | We've got a friend coming over. |
| 0:45.8 | We live pretty far away from... |
| 0:48.1 | My family's in Texas. |
| 0:49.1 | I'm in South Carolina, so we make the trip for Christmas Christmas but not for Thanksgiving. |
| 0:55.5 | So we have friends come over and we do like, we're doing a big meal here. |
| 1:00.9 | Cool. |
| 1:01.6 | That's great. |
| 1:02.1 | What about you, Emily? |
| 1:03.2 | Yeah, I'm making the trek out to Long Island tomorrow morning because I refuse to take the Long Island Railroad the Wednesday night before Thanksgiving. |
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