OpenAI's AGI Committee

The AI Breakdown First Five - Wednesday November 15, 2023

5. Airbnb Acquires AI Startup

AI for travel planning is a hot category. Case in point: Airbnb has just acquired GamePlanner.AI - it’s latest in a set of AI efforts. The price for the 12 person team wasn’t revealed, but has been reported as just under $200m.

4. Notion AI Features + New AI Startup from YouTube Founder

More AI startup news: popular workspace startup Notion is going even deeper on AI features with the introduction of Q&A. Also, former YouTube founder Chad Hurley has raised money for an AI startup that generates short form video scripts and content.

3. 50 Companies Sign Responsible AI Commitments

The tension between the ‘responsible AI’ folks and the accelerationists is getting more pronounced. A group of 35 VCs and 15 companies signed a voluntary Responsible AI Commitments pledge, and many in Silicon Valley are up in arms about it.

2. Argentina’s AI Election

While much brainpower has been expended thinking about the implications of AI for next year’s US presidential election, we’re already getting a preview of how it might work in Argentina. Deepfakes explaining parents harvesting their children’s organs anyone?

1. OpenAI Has A Committee to Determine When AGI is Here

Responding to criticisms that OpenAI is too connected to Microsoft, an OpenAI staffer pointed to their 6-member committee for determining when AGI is here, which Microsoft is not a part of….Which obviously generated a lot more chatter about AGI than about Microsoft.

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