ChatGPT Releases Official App, While Apple Restricts Employee Access to ChatGPT

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First, the News:

• Meta announced the development of its first custom silicon chips for AI

• Apple becomes the latest company to restrict employee use of ChatGPT

• NYT writes a long feature about Meta’s open source AI strategy

• British telecom BT to cut 55,000 jobs by 2030 (including 10,000+ replaced by AI)

• 2018 Turing Award Winner Yoshua Bengio joins Geoffrey Hinton in AI warning

The Most Discussed Announcement

For months, the Apple App Store has seen hundreds of off-brand, sometimes scamming “ChatGPT” apps. Today, however, OpenAI actually released an official ChatGPT app, and people are stoked. Some of the initial observations include:

• The app feels fast and has haptics

• There are no plugins (although it seems if you’ve started a chat using plugins on the web, they persist on mobile?)

• Most people find the UI simple and clean, but some have called it “soulless”

Maybe the most important thing, having ChatGPT on mobile really does create a whole new set of use cases. Hello historical tour guide in your pocket.

Sam Says No Regulatory Capture

After Tuesday’s Senate AI hearing, where OpenAI CEO Sam Altman expressed his support for some sort of AI licensing regime, many accused him of malintent. Specifically, they pointed out that one of the best ways for the current leader in a field to cement that lead is to support onerous regulations that are burdensome and expensive for would-be competitors to comply with.

Not so, responded Sam tonight, but will people believe him? It strikes us that Sam might be dealing at least in part with the fallout of another recent attempted regulatory capture by another Sam.

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