The Latest Breaking News from Sam Altman

Blockchain engineering jobs especially threatened by automation and ChatGPT

Generative AI tools such as ChatGPT could pose a significant risk to blockchain engineers due to the automation of roles, according to new a study. Blockchain engineering roles were given a 97.1% risk score by researchers while 'web and digital interface' designers were given a 100% exposure score alongside accountants,…

IT Pro · Mar 20, 2023

The ChatGPT grift

Silicon Valley is agog over the capabilities of ChatGPT. They shouldn't be

Salon · Mar 19, 2023

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warns that other A.I. developers working on ChatGPT-like tools won’t put on safety limits—and the clock is ticking

Society "has a limited amount of time to figure out how to react to that," Altman warned in a new interview.

Fortune · Mar 19, 2023

OpenAI says new model GPT-4 is more creative and less likely to invent facts

Latest version can take images as inputs and improves upon many of the criticisms users had, but will still ‘hallucinate’ facts

The Guardian - US · Mar 14, 2023

Sam Altman personally gave loans to stranded startup founders while taking shots at D.C.

The OpenAI founder called for more banking regulations and called SVB a “badly mismanaged bank.”

Fortune · Mar 13, 2023

Microsoft says GPT-4 AI is coming next week with video features

The large-language model could be unveiled at an event on March 16.

Evening Standard · Mar 10, 2023

Two Apple vets have $241 million and no customers

Two ex-Apple execs have a strong roster of investors—and five years of mystery around what they’re building.

Fortune · Mar 9, 2023

The tech mogul who gave the world ChatGPT is investing $180 million into a life extension startup

At startup incubator Y Combinator, Sam Altman got interested in aging research after an experiment with old and young mice, MIT Tech Review reported.

Fortune · Mar 8, 2023

The CEO of a giant media company just said A.I. is making some journalists obsolete as he plans staff cuts

A.I. will make journalism better "or simply replace it," Mathias Döpfner of Axel Springer wrote in an internal memo to staffers.

Fortune · Mar 1, 2023

Will ChatGPT be the disrupter academia needs?

Less than a week after Open AI released ChatGPT, CEO Sam Altman announced that the chatbot had already surpassed one million users. By January 13, 2023, the global Google search for the word “ChatGPT” had hit a popularity score of 92 and Microsoft has since invested $10 billion in OpenAI.

The Conversation · Mar 1, 2023