The Intelligence: Sam Altman and the divide in the AI world
The Intelligence from The Economist
The Economist
4.5 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
It is still unclear why the board of OpenAI fired him last week, but hundreds of staff are revolting anyway. The debacle reveals a sizeable rift between the tech companies at the forefront of AI development. Canadians typically consider themselves pro-immigration. Is the tide changing (10:45)? And the books you didn’t know were propaganda (18:49).
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| 0:46.0 | I'm Ora Ogambi. |
| 0:48.0 | And I'm Jason Palmer. |
| 0:49.0 | Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 0:57.0 | Canada has a reputation for being very welcoming when it comes to immigrants and it kind of has to be. |
| 1:03.0 | It has a low birth rate and it needs workers to support its retirees. |
| 1:07.3 | So why is sentiment around immigration now souring? |
| 1:13.2 | And the least insidious form of state propaganda is the stuff that you can just tell is propaganda. |
| 1:19.3 | When you can't, well that's when it's effective. |
| 1:22.0 | We run through a list of books that many don't realize were in fact written at the behest of governments. First up though, though, |
| 1:35.0 | though. |
| 1:37.0 | Things move quickly in the tech world, but rarely this quick. |
| 1:47.0 | Open AI has had a tumultuous past few days. |
| 1:51.0 | It all began on Friday with the sudden sacking of Sam Altman, |
| 1:55.8 | the co-founder and boss of the firm that created some of the most well-known |
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