Ilya Sutskever isn’t done working on AI safety

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This week, Ilya Sutskever launched a new AI company, Secure Superintelligence Inc. (SSI), only one month after formally leaving OpenAI. Sutskever, alongside Jan Leike, was integral to OpenAI’s efforts to enhance AI security with the rise of “superintelligent” AI methods. But each Sutskever and Leike left the corporate after a dramatic falling-out with management over method AI security. 

In EV information, Fisker filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy safety, capping off months of issues with its Ocean SUV that included recollects and dozens of lemon regulation lawsuits. That is the second car firm Henrik Fisker named after himself that has wound up in chapter. His first effort began in 2007 and filed for chapter safety in 2013. 

Change Healthcare this week confirmed {that a} February ransomware attack resulted within the theft of medical data affecting a “substantial proportion of individuals in America.” The corporate processes affected person insurance coverage and billing for 1000’s of hospitals, pharmacies and medical practices and has entry to huge quantities of well being data on a couple of third of all Individuals. 

Information

The Division of Justice vs. Adobe: The U.S. Division of Justice filed a lawsuit towards Adobe alleging that the corporate hides termination charges and makes it tough to cancel subscriptions. Read more

OpenAI acquires Rockset: OpenAI introduced that it has acquired Rockset, which builds instruments to drive real-time search and knowledge analytics, as the corporate continues to spend money on its enterprise gross sales and tech orgs. Read more

Buttons are again: Clicks launched a nostalgic, BlackBerry-esque cellphone case that provides a keyboard with bodily buttons to the underside of your iPhone. We bought to attempt one for ourselves. Read more

The place people and AI coexist: Butterflies is a social community the place people and AI work together with one another by way of posts, feedback and DMs in an effort to have extra artistic relationships with AI. Read more

Apple kills Pay Later: After launching in late March 2023, Apple’s Pay Later characteristic isn’t any extra. As an alternative, Apple Pay customers will be capable of entry loans by way of a partnership with the third-party app Affirm. Read more

Beware, Outlook customers: A researcher has discovered a bug that enables anybody to impersonate Microsoft company e-mail accounts, making phishing makes an attempt look credible and extra more likely to trick their targets. Read more

Perplexity takes on Google: The AI-powered search startup now shows outcomes for factual queries akin to climate and time at a spot, foreign money conversion, and solutions to basic math queries straight by way of playing cards. Read more

Runway unveils Gen-3: The corporate’s newest AI mannequin for producing movies delivers a “main” enchancment in pace — in addition to extra management over the construction, fashion and movement of the generated movies. Read more

Evaluation

What ought to AI seem like?: From black holes to colourful blobs, representing AI in consumer interfaces generally is a problem. Whereas approaches differ to branding purportedly all-seeing, all-knowing, all-doing intelligence, Devin Coldewey explores how corporations have coalesced round the concept the avatar of AI needs to be non-threatening, summary, however comparatively easy and non-anthropomorphic. Read more

Why Fisker failed: As Fisker information for Chapter 11 chapter safety, many are left questioning what’s subsequent for the ill-fated EV startup. Sean O’Kane argues that no matter occurs to Fisker or its belongings, it received’t change the basic drawback: that it wasn’t able to grapple with bringing a flawed automotive to market. Read more

Pushing ChatGPT’s cultural limits: The present ChatGPT affords solutions which can be too generalized for particular questions that cater to sure communities, as its coaching seems Eurocentric and Western in its bias. With most AI fashions not constructed with folks of shade in thoughts, Dominic-Madori Davis and Tage Kene-Okafor report on the Black-owned chatbots and ChatGPT variations that cater particularly to Black and brown communities — and assist founders capitalize on OpenAI’s cultural slip. Read more