Greg Brockman / @gdb:
Sam Altman and Greg Brockman respond to Jan Leike, say they’ve raised awareness of the risks and opportunities of AGI, will keep doing safety research, and more — We’re really grateful to Jan for everything he’s done for OpenAI, and we know he’ll continue to contribute to the mission from outside. In light of the questions his departure has raised, we wanted to explain a bit about how we think about our overall strategy. First, we have
A profile of Netflix co-CEO Greg Peters, who led the company’s successful crackdown on password sharing and is now pushing a focus on live programming (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
A profile of Netflix co-CEO Greg Peters, who led the company’s successful crackdown on password sharing and is now pushing a focus on live programming — Now all he’s got to figure out is live programming, sports, gaming, pricing and, oh, advertising. — In mid-February, Greg Peters …
How bots monopolizing DeviantArt’s promotional and revenue apparatuses and the platform’s unwillingness to address the issue are driving artists to abandon it (Nitish Pahwa/Slate)
Nitish Pahwa / Slate:
How bots monopolizing DeviantArt’s promotional and revenue apparatuses and the platform’s unwillingness to address the issue are driving artists to abandon it — Once a vibrant platform for artists, DeviantArt is now buckling under the weight of bots and greed—and spurning the creative community that made it great.
Training AI on stereotypical facial expressions is bound to mislead because scientific evidence indicates that there are no universal expressions of emotion (Lisa Feldman Barrett/Wall Street Journal)
Lisa Feldman Barrett / Wall Street Journal:
Training AI on stereotypical facial expressions is bound to mislead because scientific evidence indicates that there are no universal expressions of emotion — Training algorithms on stereotypical facial expressions is bound to mislead. — Imagine that you are interviewing for a job.
Despite banning TikTok on government devices, Taiwan isn’t considering a US-style ban, saying the app is just one battle in a war against China’s disinformation (New York Times)
New York Times:
Despite banning TikTok on government devices, Taiwan isn’t considering a US-style ban, saying the app is just one battle in a war against China’s disinformation — The island democracy was early to ban TikTok on government phones, and the ruling party refuses to use it. But a U.S.-style ban is not under consideration.
The Palantir-sponsored AI Expo for National Competitiveness featured VR headsets for soldiers, a map tool that can “nominate targets of interest”, and more (Caroline Haskins/The Guardian)
Caroline Haskins / The Guardian:
The Palantir-sponsored AI Expo for National Competitiveness featured VR headsets for soldiers, a map tool that can “nominate targets of interest”, and more — America’s military industrial complex took center stage at AI Expo for National Competitiveness, where a fire-breathing panel set the tone
Honda plans to invest ~$12.8B in software over the decade up to the FY ending March 2031, as it prepares to join the rapid shift to EVs in markets like China (Yuichi Shiga/Nikkei Asia)
Yuichi Shiga / Nikkei Asia:
Honda plans to invest ~$12.8B in software over the decade up to the FY ending March 2031, as it prepares to join the rapid shift to EVs in markets like China — EV models get priority as Japanese automakers struggle in Chinese market — Honda plans to introduce new models in China faster than in its other markets.
Access Now: 2023 was the worst year for internet shutdowns since monitoring began in 2016, with 283 shutdowns across 39 countries, led by India at 116 (Astha Rajvanshi/TIME)
Astha Rajvanshi / TIME:
Access Now: 2023 was the worst year for internet shutdowns since monitoring began in 2016, with 283 shutdowns across 39 countries, led by India at 116 — Last year, an internet shutdown in the state of Manipur, India, lasted a staggering 212 days when the state government issued 44 consecutive orders …
A look at an ISIS-affiliated media program called News Harvest, which is using AI-generated news anchors to disseminate extremist propaganda quickly and cheaply (Pranshu Verma/Washington Post)
Pranshu Verma / Washington Post:
A look at an ISIS-affiliated media program called News Harvest, which is using AI-generated news anchors to disseminate extremist propaganda quickly and cheaply — The Islamic State-affiliated media broadcast News Harvest shows how artificial intelligence can be used to disseminate extremist propaganda quickly and cheaply.
Expedia fires its CTO Rathi Murthy and SVP Sreenivas Rachamadugu due to a “violation of company policy”, days after its annual product and partner conference (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)
Natalie Lung / Bloomberg:
Expedia fires its CTO Rathi Murthy and SVP Sreenivas Rachamadugu due to a “violation of company policy”, days after its annual product and partner conference — – Company declined to disclose specific reason for departures — Murthy presented at Expedia’s annual conference this week
