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Figure's humanoid robot can now have conversations with people
By Paul Ridden
March 13, 2024
https://newatlas.com/robotics/figure-01 ... ersations/

Figure has demonstrated the first fruit of a collaboration between the company and OpenAI to enhance the capabilities of humanoid robots. In a video released today, the Figure 01 bot is seen conversing in real-time.

The development progress at Figure is nothing short of extraordinary. Entrepreneur Brett Adcock only emerged from stealth last year, after gathering together a bunch of key players from Boston Dynamics, Tesla Google DeepMind and Archer Aviation to "create the world's first commercially viable general purpose humanoid robot."

By October, the Figure 01 was already up on its feet and performing basic autonomous tasks. By the turn of the year, the robot had watch-and-learn capabilities, and was ready to enter the workforce at BMW by mid-January.

We got to see it on the warehouse floor last month, just before Figure announced a successful Series B funding round along with a collaboration agreement with OpenAI "to develop next generation AI models for humanoid robots." Now we get a taste for what that means.

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OpenAI's Sora Video Generator AI Will Be Available in a Matter of Months
OpenAI chief technology officer Mira Murati isn't offering a specific date but says you'll be able to try Sora later this year.
By Ryan Whitwam March 14, 2024
https://www.extremetech.com/computing/o ... -of-months

OpenAI's Sora video-generating bot made waves when it was announced in February, but only a few designers and filmmakers have been able to use it. OpenAI promised a full release in the future, and the wait might not be as long as we believed. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, OpenAI chief technology officer Mira Murati says that Sora could be ready for the public in a matter of months.

The debut of Sora last month swept away the generative AI malaise we all felt from seeing a dozen almost identical chatbots hit the scene. Sora wasn't doing anything new—numerous text-to-video products are already available. However, Sora's videos look real. It can create photorealistic scenes or imitate styles like 3D animation and cartoons. The output is so impressive that the film industry is feeling the heat. Filmmaker Tyler Perry reportedly axed an $800 million expansion of his studio after seeing how far Sora had taken AI video.

By limiting access to trusted partners, OpenAI hopes it can ready Sora for a safe public release. Rooting for Sora to be released as soon as possible is probably a bad idea. It's possible to use text and image-based generative AI systems for malicious purposes. Still, a service that creates realistic videos from scratch could be abused with even graver consequences, particularly as the US careens toward what promises to be a tumultuous election season. Murati does note that the final version of Sora probably won't be able to recreate public figures.

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Microsoft Upgrades the Free Version of Copilot With GPT-4 Turbo
Microsoft customers used to have to pay for Turbo, but not anymore.
By Josh Norem March 14, 2024
https://www.extremetech.com/computing/m ... pt-4-turbo

It's no secret that Microsoft has been trying to get hundreds of millions of customers to try out its new AI-powered assistant, Copilot, for the past year. It's added it to its Bing search engine, Edge browser, and even Windows 11, and it's also free to use. The company also offers a "Pro" version for $20 a month that uses the latest "turbo" AI model from OpenAI, so it has access to more recent data and can handle larger text prompts. Now, Microsoft is letting people who use the free version of Copilot use the "turbo" model, a sweet freebie that will undoubtedly result in fewer people paying for the pro version.

Microsoft announced that it would add GPT -4 Turbo to the free version of Copilot on Twitter/X, causing people to ask, "What's the catch?" There doesn't seem to be one, though; it's just a free upgrade that could entice more people to give Copilot a spin. The company still offers the same GPT-4 Turbo model to its Pro customers, which is probably frustrating for this group since they're coughing up a chunk of dough each month for the privilege of using it. According to Cnet, GPT-4 Turbo has been trained using data up to April 2023, whereas GPT-4 ended its data collection in September 2021. This allows the newer model to provide more up-to-date results in queries.

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Nothing comes for free.

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OUTLINE:
0:00 - Introduction
1:05 - OpenAI board saga
18:31 - Ilya Sutskever
24:40 - Elon Musk lawsuit
34:32 - Sora
44:23 - GPT-4
55:32 - Memory & privacy
1:02:36 - Q*
1:06:12 - GPT-5
1:09:27 - $7 trillion of compute
1:17:35 - Google and Gemini
1:28:40 - Leap to GPT-5
1:32:24 - AGI
1:50:57 - Aliens

Transcript: https://lexfridman.com/sam-altman-2-transcript

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Sam Altman said he'd 'pick a different name' for OpenAI if he could go back in time

https://www.businessinsider.com/sam-alt ... any-2024-3

idk, PublicAI?

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ClosedAI.

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OpenAI saying "materially" is a big deal.

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So that means 4.5 even sooner?

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Fingers crossed.

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Source: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... -directors

Archive: https://archive.ph/2yD21

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Microsoft, OpenAI plan $100 billion data-center project, media report says

Source: Reuters

Microsoft and OpenAI are working on plans for a data center project that could cost as much as $100 billion and include an artificial intelligence supercomputer called "Stargate" set to launch in 2028, The Information reported on Friday.

OpenAI did not immediately respond to Reuters' requests for comment.

Rapid adoption of generative artificial intelligence technology has led to sky-rocketing demand for AI data centers capable of handling more advanced tasks than traditional data centers.

The Information reported that Microsoft would likely finance the project, which is expected to be 100 times more costly than some of the biggest existing data centers, citing people involved in private conversations about the proposal.

The proposed U.S.-based supercomputer would be the biggest in a series the companies are looking to build over the next six years, the report added.

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OpenAI unveils voice-cloning tool
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-03-ope ... -tool.html

OpenAI says ways to verify people consented to having their voices immitated by artificial intelligence and to automatically detect audio deep fakes involving prominent people should be built in widely deployed 'synthetic voice' tools.

OpenAI on Friday revealed a voice-cloning tool it plans to keep tightly controlled until safeguards are in place to thwart audio fakes meant to dupe listeners.

A model called "Voice Engine" can essentially duplicate someone's speech based on a 15-second audio sample, according to an OpenAI blog post sharing results of a small-scale test of the tool.

"We recognize that generating speech that resembles people's voices has serious risks, which are especially top of mind in an election year," the San Francisco-based company said.

"We are engaging with U.S. and international partners from across government, media, entertainment, education, civil society and beyond to ensure we are incorporating their feedback as we build."

Disinformation researchers fear rampant misuse of AI-powered applications in a pivotal election year thanks to proliferating voice cloning tools, which are cheap, easy to use and hard to trace.

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