News about Sam Altman

The artificial intelligence start-up behind ChatGPT is looking to become a for-profit business after years of non-profit status. The restructuring will mean co-founder Sam Altman will receive equity for the first time with talks under way to hand him a 7% stake worth around £8bn.

Billionaire media mogul Oprah Winfrey, 70, sits down with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman with plans to come to grips with the transformative power of AI. The media mogul said in the feature that she thinks artificial intelligence will 'change in ways that are unimaginable for the good,' and refers the software as 'honorable' and 'miraculous.'

'SearchGPT', which is being trialed as a prototype before a wider rollout, scours the web for live news and information just like Google Search. OpenAI says the new product is particularly useful for queries about current events, recent developments, or specific information that ChatGPT might not know. Social media users have noted the parallels with the world's biggest search engine, with one saying 'Google Search is definitely in trouble'.

Standing on the bone-dry bed of what used to be one of the biggest lakes in Mexico gives one an eerie sense of what the end of the world could look like. 'Everything started to dry up a few years ago,' says farmer Carmen Ruiz, prodding the crumbling, cracked earth where Lake Constitucion used to be. Occupying an area of more than 2,000 acres in the state of Queretaro, the lake was once larger than Gibraltar. The Ruiz family used to spend their days raising chickens by the water and growing root vegetables alongside lines of fresh corn that stretched to the horizon, but now the lake has all but gone and, along with thousands of families like them, they are struggling to survive.

The OpenAI boss filed a lawsuit against the home's developer through a corporation, claiming he 'was misled into buying a $27 million lemon' in 2020.The mansion was listed for $40.5 million in 2019 and was then the most expensive listing in the city. An Architectural Digest tour showed a separate wellness cottage and a garage with a 'turntable' for cars that emerges out of a 'Bat cave' tunnel.

Oprah Winfrey (left) was spotted making her way from the Sun Valley Resort in Idaho where media and tech giants have gathered for the Allen & Co conference. This year's star-studded guest list also includes Jeff Bezos and his glamourous fiancée Lauren Sanchez (inset), New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft , Apple CEO Tim Cook, Disney boss Bob Iger, OpenAI leader Sam Altman.

Media and tech titans have descended upon Sun Valley, Idaho for their annual 'billionaires summer camp.' This years star-studded guest list includes New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft , Apple CEO Tim Cook, Disney boss Bob Iger, OpenAI leader Sam Altman, Gayle King and many more.

While you might expect AI to be the epitome of cold, logical reasoning, researchers now suggest that they might be even more illogical than humans. Researchers from University College London put seven of the top AIs through a series of classic tests designed to test human reasoning - such as the Monty Hall problem (pictured bottom right). Even the best-performing AIs were found to be irrational and prone to simple mistakes with most models getting the answer wrong more than half the time (illustrated top right).However, the researchers also found that these models weren't irrational in same way as a human while some even refused to answer logic questions on 'ethical grounds'.

The lifting of the lid by former board members comes a week after Altman was forced to apologize to Scarjo over accusations he okayed the use of her voice without permission.

Two of the board members involved in the short lived ousting of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman back in November have finally broken their silence about what occurred in a new opinion piece. The lifting of the lid by former board members Helen Toner and Tasha McCauley comes a week after Altman was forced to apologize to Scarlett Johansson over accusations he okayed the use of her voice without proper permission. In another controversy this month, one of OpenAI's Ilya Sutskever announced that he was leaving OpenAI for a 'very personal meaningful' project.

X boss Elon Musk has commented on the recent beef between Scarlett Johansson and Sam Altman after his company allegedly used her voice without consent for a new ChatGPT project. He compared the incident to an episode of Netflix's hit dystopian TV series, Black Mirror. Musk has had a long standing rivalry with Altman and has long criticized the company after he left his position as a founding member of OpenAI in 2018.

ChatGPT's founder Sam Altman claimed in a statement that the voice heard on the app known as Sky is not Scarlett Johansson and said that his office reached out to her reps while also conceding that he could have 'communicated better.' His remarks came after Johansson issued her own statement in which she said that her lawyers have written letters to Altman and ChatGPT over the voice which she says sounds 'eerily similar' to her own. The Oscar-nominated star has become synonymous with AI voicing thanks to her role as Joaquin Phoenix's robotic romantic partner in the 2013 movie Her. Altman even tweeted the word 'her' around the time that Sky was launched.

The artificial intelligence company is set to release a tool to detect faked images created by its picture generator DALL-E. It will share the deepfake detector with some disinformation researchers in order to test it in real-world situations and find ways to improve. The new tool can correctly identify 98.8 percent of images on DALL-E 3 but it was not designed to work on photos generated by other popular programs such as Midjourney and Stability. It comes just under a year after OpenAI CEO Sam Altman admitted there was a 'lot of fear' about the impact artificial intelligence technology could have on elections and society.

The creators of ChatGPT are poised to release a new search product to rival Google, according to reports. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman (pictured right) is set to confirm a new feature for its wildly popular chatbot which could allow ChatGPT to search the live web. This feature would let users ask ChatGPT a question and receive detailed answers that cite web sources like Wikipedia. If true, this would make the Microsoft-backed OpenAI one of the biggest challenges to Google's search engine supremacy.

Despite its status as a leading light of the 1980s AI revolution and being home to two of the top universities in the country - MIT and Harvard - Boston is struggling to retain top tech talent. Drawn in by the promise of networking opportunities and investors, founders are increasingly ditching the city and moving to bigger tech hubs.

Former Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao was sentenced to 4 months in prison after pleading guilty in November 2023 to a money laundering charge.

Now that TikTok could realistically be banned in the US in a year from now, billionaires are lining up shout their intentions to buy TikTok from Chinese parent Bytedance if it agrees to sell the social media sensation. But don't expect Google or Meta to buy TikTok.

Over the years, Gates has maintained that the three best career paths for recent graduates are those in alternative energy, health biosciences, and advancing artificial intelligence itself - but notably 'billionaire philanthropist' is not on that list. 'I could even lose my job,' Gates quipped on his podcast this year. The Microsoft co-founder has recently focused his blog and podcast on the future promise and ethical dimensions of AI

Imagine the dream employee: They don't take breaks, go on vacation, or request meetings. For those industries, this kind of employee could be hired very soon. Several companies have revealed that they are now producing AI agents, or'synthetic employees.' These digital employees could upend the office as we know it: answering emails, organizing invoices, responding to customer service inquiries, and maintaining a calendar. Perhaps, no admin employees or expensive third-party software can replace them.

All UN countries accepted a resolution to shield personal information and protect human rights, as well as 123 other non-UN countries, including Russia and China. The initiative would also seek to provide poorer countries with the tools they need to keep up with AI innovation in Western countries.

A year ago, Microsoft's 279-acre campus in Goodyear, Arizona, produced 579 million gallons of water, while 670 families need a year of AI and cloud computing. Powering AI requires a lot of electricity, which in turn produces heat and requires water to cool servers. The state will have to make 'tough decisions' over whether or not to allow more data centers and place their future water supply in jeopardy.

In a snapshot shared on designer Diane Von Furstenberg's Instagram Story on Sunday, Katy Perry was seen cuddling up next to AI mogul Sam Altman at a pre-Oscars party. As they sat next to each other and posed for a photograph at the festive event, the 38-year-old tech industry magnate held his arm around the 39-year-old hitman. The songwriter, who is stepping down from her role as a judge on American Idol, stood out in a flowing white dress that exposed her toned arms during the soirée.

Elon Musk and Sam Altman, both technology visionaries on a joint effort to protect the world from AI's dangers, have become embroiled in a slew of lawsuits and the publishing of private emails. When he first met Musk at SpaceX's headquarters in Southern California, he lauded his 'conviction' and aspiration to fly rockets to Mars. Musk filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, a non-profit corporation he co-founded for allegedly seeking money by entering a $13 billion deal with Microsoft and keeping the code for the company's new generative AI products private.

OpenAI has recalled Sam Altman (left) to its board alongside three other senior women in the hopes of strengthening the company's culture and separating it from the drama of the past four months. Sue Desmond-Hellman (middle Right), a former Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation executive; Nicole Seligman (top right), a former Sony general counsel; and Instacart chief executive Fidji Simo (bottom right) are the new members.