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A New Trick Uses AI to Jailbreak AI Models—Including GPT-4
5Dec By adminNo Comments
Technology

A New Trick Uses AI to Jailbreak AI Models—Including GPT-4

Large language models recently emerged as a powerful and transformative new kind of technology. Their potential became headline news as ordinary people were dazzled by the capabilities of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, released just a year ago.In the months that followed the release of ChatGPT, discovering new jailbreaking methods became a popular pastime for mischievous users, as well as those interested in the security and reliability of AI systems. But scores of startups are now building prototypes and fully fledged products on top of large language model APIs. OpenAI said at its first-ever developer conference in November that over 2 million developers are now using its APIs.These models simply predict the text that should follow a given input, but they are trained on vast quantities of text, from...
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Adam D’Angelo Bridges the Past, Future for OpenAI Board
1Dec By adminNo Comments
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Adam D’Angelo Bridges the Past, Future for OpenAI Board

In the surprise ouster and restoration of Sam Altman as chief executive officer at OpenAI, only one person, Adam D’Angelo, managed to play a role on each side of the drama. D’Angelo, a former Facebook executive and founder of the question-and-answer platform Quora, was one of four members of the board who fired Altman, and the sole surviving director named to a new board of the artificial-intelligence company that took over on Wednesday. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Sam Altman Officially Returns to OpenAI—With a New Board Seat for Microsoft
30Nov By adminNo Comments
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Sam Altman Officially Returns to OpenAI—With a New Board Seat for Microsoft

Sam Altman marked his formal return as CEO of OpenAI today in a company memo that confirmed changes to the company’s board, including a new nonvoting seat for the startup’s primary investor, Microsoft.In a memo sent to staff and shared on OpenAI’s blog, Altman painted the chaos of the past two weeks, triggered by the board’s loss of trust in their CEO, during which almost the entire staff of the company threatened to quit, as a testament to the startup’s resilience rather than a sign of instability.“You stood firm for each other, this company, and our mission,” Altman wrote. “One of the most important things for the team that builds [artificial general intelligence] safely is the ability to handle stressful and uncertain situations, and maintain good judgment throughout. Top marks.”Altman...
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‘No Management Class Can Teach This’: Radhika Gupta, Ex-Microsoft Intern, Praises Satya Nadella’s ‘Wartime Leadership’
23Nov By adminNo Comments
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‘No Management Class Can Teach This’: Radhika Gupta, Ex-Microsoft Intern, Praises Satya Nadella’s ‘Wartime Leadership’

Radhika Gupta and Satya Nadella.In the last 5 days, we saw wartime leadership from you Satya that no management class can teach and every CEO can learn from. Thank you, says Edelweiss MF CEO Radhika GuptaEven as the boardroom chaos at OpenAI following Sam Altman’s ouster has now settled with Altman’s return at the company, Edelweiss Mutual Fund MD and CEO Radhika Gupta said “we saw wartime leadership” from Microsoft Satya Nadella that no management class can teach.“In the last 5 days, we saw wartime leadership from you Satya that no management class can teach and every CEO can learn from. Thank you,” Radhika Gupta, a former Microsoft intern, said.And in the last 5 days, we saw wartime leadership from you Satya that no management class can teach and every CEO can learn from.Thank you,A for...
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Sam Altman Reaches Agreement to Return to OpenAI
22Nov By adminNo Comments
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Sam Altman Reaches Agreement to Return to OpenAI

Days after he was fired as CEO by OpenAI's board, Sam Altman is set to return to the company.OpenAI released a statement late Tuesday saying it had “reached an agreement in principle for Sam Altman to return to OpenAI as CEO.” The proposed agreement includes replacing all the directors that fired Altman bar one, Quora CEO Adam D'Angelo. He would be joined on the new board by Bret Taylor, formerly CEO of Salesforce and Larry Summers, formerly US Secretary of the Treasury.OpenAI was in “intense” negotiations earlier on Tuesday with Altman and the board of directors that ousted him last Friday, in an effort to rescue the embattled company. The talks were acknowledged in a memo sent to staff Monday by OpenAI’s vice president of global affairs, Anna Makanju, saying that the talks included Altm...
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Microsoft CEO Says He’s ‘Open’ To Prospect Of Sam Altman Returning To OpenAI
21Nov By adminNo Comments
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Microsoft CEO Says He’s ‘Open’ To Prospect Of Sam Altman Returning To OpenAI

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on Monday said that he was open to the prospect of Sam Altman returning to OpenAI following his dramatic ouster from the high-profile company last week, as the fallout of his abrupt removal continues.The tech giant had previously announced that it was bringing in Altman and former OpenAI President Greg Brockman to lead a new artificial intelligence research team there, and also appeared prepared to hire other OpenAI employees who choose to follow their former boss out of the company. Brockman resigned from OpenAI in protest over the firing of Altman as CEO.But in an interview with CNBC, Nadella seemed willing to accept a scenario in which Altman would return to his old job, saying it’s up to the people of OpenAI to choose to stay there or go over to Microsoft.“...
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OpenAI board opens talks for possible return of former CEO Sam Altman
21Nov By adminNo Comments
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OpenAI board opens talks for possible return of former CEO Sam Altman

NEW DELHI: In an interesting development, Sam Altman and OpenAI's board have opened discussions to bring back the former CEO of the artificial intelligence startup, Bloomberg News reported.The future of OpenAI was thrown into jeopardy after more than 700 of its 770 employees signed a letter on Monday saying they may leave the company for Microsoft if the ousted CEO is not reinstalled.One of the board members who pushed out Altman on Friday reversed course Monday and signed the letter, which was on an internal message board, according to three people familiar with the matter.The decision by OpenAI's board to remove Altman shocked the tech world. It also led to a flurry of developments, including Microsoft extending an offer to the ousted CEO.!(function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) { function l...
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OpenAI’s Ineffective Altruists vs. Sam Altman
21Nov By adminNo Comments
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OpenAI’s Ineffective Altruists vs. Sam Altman

Corporate power struggles aren’t rare, and most companies survive them. But the OpenAI board’s sudden ouster of CEO Sam Altman last week looks increasingly like a misguided kamikaze run. It’s hard to see who benefits from the melodrama besides opponents of innovation.News of Mr. Altman’s removal late Friday shocked Silicon Valley. Mr. Altman helped launch OpenAI in 2015 with the mission of responsibly developing artificial intelligence to benefit humanity. He has since become the technology’s public face, with media appearances and testimony to Congress.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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