Fri. 03/01 – Elon Sues Sam Altman And OpenAI

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🗓️ 1 March 2024

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Elon is suing Sam Altman and OpenAI. Meta continues to get out of the news business, especially when it’s being pushed. A new AI deepfake supertool. And, of course, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions. Links: Elon Musk sues OpenAI over AI threat (Courthouse News Service) Meta to Wind Down Its News Feature in the US and Australia (Bloomberg) Microsoft introduces Copilot AI chatbot for finance workers in Excel and Outlook (CNBC) Alibaba’s new AI system ‘EMO’ creates realistic talking and singing videos from photos (VentureBeat) Weekend Longreads Suggestions: Wait. Why is Reddit losing so much money? (Business Insider) The 9-Month-Old AI Startup Challenging Silicon Valley’s Giants (WSJ) What a Major Solar Storm Could Do to Our Planet (The New Yorker) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Friday, March 1st, 2024. I'm Brian McCullough today.
0:08.6	Elon is suing Sam Altman and Open AI.
0:11.4	Meta continues to get out of the news business, especially when it's
0:14.7	being pushed. A new AI Deep Fake Super Tool and of course the weekend long read suggestions.
0:20.8	Here's what you miss today in the world of Tech.
0:23.0	Well, Silicon Valley has gotten the eating popcorn jiff lawsuit of its dreams that it deserves.
0:39.2	Pick your metaphor, I guess.
0:40.9	Elon Musk is suing Open AI and Sam Altman, accusing them of betraying an agreement from
0:46.8	Open AI's founding to develop AI toward the, quote, benefit of humanity over profits. The suit was filed Thursday night in San Francisco Superior Court with
0:55.8	Musk claiming that Open AI's tight relationship with Microsoft runs in direct opposition to the company's
1:00.7	founding documents. Quoting the suit.
1:04.0	Open AI Inc. has been transformed into a closed source
1:07.4	de facto subsidiary of the largest technology company in the world,
1:10.8	Microsoft.
1:12.1	Under its new board, it is not just developing but is actually
1:15.1	refining an AGI to maximize profits for Microsoft rather than for the benefit of
1:20.4	humanity." End quote. Aple of interesting things there.
1:24.0	First, he did not name Microsoft in the suit.
1:27.0	Instead, Open AI and CEO Sam Altman and President Greg Brockman are named as co-defenders.
1:33.0	Though the implication here is that Microsoft is profiting off of,
1:36.5	what if you're reading the language of the suit carefully,
1:39.3	Elon claims is already AGI or artificial general intelligence.
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