Researchers are worried about mistakes in OpenAI's Whisper, a tool that transcribes audio into text. According to the Associated Press, engineers and researchers found that Whisper sometimes “hallucinates,” meaning it adds extra details…
Software engineers, developers, and academic researchers have serious concerns about transcriptions from OpenAI’s Whisper, according to a report in the Associated Press. While there’s been no shortage of discussion around generative AI’s…
Welcome back to Week in Review. This week, we’re looking at OpenAI’s reported plans for its next AI model; a buzzy new messaging app that’s a hit with Gen Z; and Tim Cook discovering that you can name a group chat in iMessage. Let’s get…
OpenAI has once again trimmed its safety-focused operations, dissolving its AGI Readiness team — a group dedicated to preparing for so-called artificial general intelligence. Miles Brundage, a senior advisor on the team, broke the news in…
Engineers, developers, and researchers say OpenAI's transcription tool Whisper hallucinates chunks of text or even entire sentences, including racial commentary — Tech behemoth OpenAI has touted its artificial intelligence-powered…
California labor law doesn't shield OpenAI from producing CEO Sam Altman's and President Greg Brockman's texts and social media messages relevant to a copyright infringement lawsuit, authors alleging OpenAI and Microsoft illegally used…
Source: Perplexity CEO told staff in 2023 that it had acquisition offers from X, OpenAI, and Notion, in the $150M to $200M range; Microsoft was also interested — Aravind Srinivas didn't set out to earn a reputation as one of the media's…
An exclusive media story reported Orion will launch in December and be 100x more powerful than ChatGPT-4. OpenAI's CEO dismissed the story as “fake news.”
OpenAI says it won't release a model called Orion this year — OpenAI says that it doesn't intend to release an AI model code-named Orion this year, countering recent reporting from The Verge on the AI company's roadmap. — “We don't have…
OpenAI says that it doesn’t intend to release an AI model code-named Orion this year, countering recent reporting from The Verge on the AI company’s roadmap. “We don’t have plans to release a model code-named Orion this year,” a…
OpenAI doubled down on the importance of the U.S. maintaining leadership on artificial intelligence (AI) development in a new outline of the company's approach to national security. The ChatGPT maker, in a blog post Thursday, laid out how…
This week in artificial intelligence, Anthropic and OpenAI unveiled new AI systems capable of controlling computers and working in teams, while the U.S. Department of the Treasury demonstrated AI’s real-world impact by recovering $3.8…
Replying to an X post linking to a report on OpenAI planning to launch its next frontier model Orion by December, Sam Altman says “fake news out of control” — The Verge last night published an exclusive and seemingly well researched and…