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The AI Breakdown First Five - Tue May 21, 2024
Today on the First Five:
5. OpenAI Disbands Superalignment Team
4. Dell Pushes AI PCs & Nvidia Partnership
3. Microsoft Shows Off AI PCs
2. Microsoft’s New Recall Feature is Generating Very Mixed Responses
1. Scarlett Johansson Goes After OpenAI
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5. OpenAI Disbands Superalignment Team
In the wake of the departures of Jan Leike and others involved with the less-than-a-year-old Superalignment team, insiders report that the team has been disbanded and employees reassigned to other areas.
Lot of absurd takes like this on the superalignment team leaving OpenAI.
The more likely reason they left is not because Ilya and Jan saw some super advanced AI emerging that they couldn't handle but that they didn't and as the cognitive dissonance hit, OpenAI and other… x.com/i/web/status/1…
— Daniel Jeffries (@Dan_Jeffries1)
May 18, 2024
4. Dell Pushes AI PCs & Nvidia Partnership
Dell is hosting a big event this week and the two headliners are 1) a new line of AI-enabled PCs, and 2) an expanded partnership with Nvidia designed to allow businesses to start their own “AI factories” — which Nvidia sees as a key vector for growth.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang talks about a new partnership with Dell that will allow companies and government organizations to deploy their own artificial intelligence “factories.”
One of their first customers is ServiceNow, run by Bill McDermott trib.al/rtlkzGk
— Bloomberg TV (@BloombergTV)
May 20, 2024
3. Microsoft Shows Off AI PCs
Microsoft Build is happening this week and they’re leading off with a new generation of deeply AI-integrated PCs. The company says their new models beat the M3 Macbook Air and feature a screen-viewing assistant similar to what we say from OpenAI last week.
OpenAI didn’t ship the Windows app for ChatGPT because Microsoft is doing it
— Pete (@nonmayorpete)
May 20, 2024
2. Microsoft’s New Recall Feature is Generating Very Mixed Responses
One AI PC feature announced by Microsoft yesterday is generating tons of buzz. That’s their “Recall” feature which watches everything you’ve done and allows for natural language search. Some see it as unbelievably useful. Others see it as unbelievably dystopian. What do you think?
Satya Nadella says Windows PCs will have a photographic memory feature called Recall that will remember and understand everything you do on your computer by taking constant screenshots
— Tsarathustra (@tsarnick)
May 20, 2024
1. Scarlett Johansson Goes After OpenAI
Talk about an own goal. After many people (including Sam Altman himself) pointed out similarities between the Scartlett Johansson’s Samantha voice in “Her” and the “Sky” voiced used in OpenAI’s demos last week, it turns out ScarJo had been contacted about her voice being used and turned OpenAI down (only to have them use something very similar anyway).
Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI situation. Wow:
— Bobby Allyn (@BobbyAllyn)
May 20, 2024
Bonus: Apple’s Got Their Work Cut Out
Tim Cook right now
— Peter Yang (@petergyang)
May 21, 2024
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