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Sam Altman firing drama detailed in new book excerpt | TechCrunch
Read original at TechCrunch →<DIV><div><div><p><span>In Brief</span></p><div><p>Posted:</p><p><time datetime="2025-03-29T13:22:51-07:00">1:22 PM PDT · March 29, 2025</time></p></div></div><figure><img width="1024" height="746" src="https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/GettyImages-2197181367.jpg?w=1024" alt="Open AI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman speaks during the Kakao media day in Seoul."
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com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/GettyImages-2197181367.jpg?resize=720,525 720w, https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/GettyImages-2197181367.jpg?resize=900,656 900w, https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/GettyImages-2197181367.jpg?resize=800,583 800w, https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/GettyImages-2197181367.
jpg?resize=668,487 668w, https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/GettyImages-2197181367.jpg?resize=515,375 515w, https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/GettyImages-2197181367.jpg?resize=847,617 847w, https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/GettyImages-2197181367.jpg?resize=708,516 708w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px"><figcaption><strong>Image Credits:</strong>Kim Jae-Hwan/SOPA Images/LightRocket / Getty Images</figcaption></figure><div><p id="speakable-summary">An excerpt from the upcoming book “The Optimist: Sam Altman, OpenAI, and the Race to Invent the Future” <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.
wsj.com/tech/ai/the-real-story-behind-sam-altman-firing-from-openai-efd51a5d?st=Qh5uBU&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink">offers new details</a> about why OpenAI’s board <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/05/a-timeline-of-sam-altmans-firing-from-openai-and-the-fallout/">briefly fired CEO Sam Altman</a> back in 2023.
</p><p>Written by Wall Street Journal reporter Keach Hagey, the book claims the nonprofit’s board members became increasingly concerned after learning about issues such as an OpenAI Startup Fund that was actually personally owned by Altman.</p><p>At the same time, co-founder Ilya Sutskever and CTO Mira Murati were reportedly collecting evidence of what they saw as Altman’s toxic and dishonest behavior, complete with screenshots from Murati’s Slack channel.
For example, Altman allegedly claimed the company’s legal department said GPT-4 Turbo didn’t need to be reviewed by the joint safety board, but the company’s top lawyer denied saying that.</p><p>After Sutskever provided this evidence to board members, they moved to oust Altman and appoint Murati as interim CEO.
But this quickly backfired, with OpenAI employees (including Sutskever and Murati) signing a letter demanding Altman’s return — which he soon did, with <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/18/safe-superintelligence-ilya-sutskevers-ai-startup-is-reportedly-close-to-raising-roughly-1b/">Sutskever</a> and <a href="https://techcrunch.
com/2025/02/18/thinking-machines-lab-is-ex-openai-cto-mira-muratis-new-startup/">Murati</a> subsequently leaving to launch startups of their own.</p></div></div><div><div><div><div><h3>Newsletters</h3></div><p>Subscribe for the industry’s biggest tech news</p></div><form method="POST" action="/"></form></div><h2>Related</h2><div><h2>Latest in AI</h2></div></div></DIV>
Viral Studio Ghibli-style AI images showcase power – and copyright concerns – of ChatGPT update | CNN
Read original at CNN →<DIV><section data-editable="main" data-track-zone="main" data-reorderable="main"> <article data-uri="cms.cnn.com/_components/article/instances/cm8s5hizb004q2cp2dxfj3tce@published" role="main" data-drag-disable="true" data-unselectable="true" data-regwall-disabled="false" data-subscription-only="false" data-paywall-disabled="false"><section data-tabcontent="Content"><main><div data-editable="content" itemprop="articleBody" data-reorderable="content"><p><cite><span data-editable="location"></span><span data-editable="source">CNN</span> — </cite></p><p data-uri="cms.
cnn.com/_components/paragraph/instances/cm8s5hizb004p2cp22ax2culj@published" data-editable="text" data-component-name="paragraph" data-article-gutter="true">Just days after OpenAI launched its most advanced AI image generator to date, a social media trend imitating the work of Japanese animation company Studio Ghibli is demonstrating both the technology’s power and the copyright concerns it raises.
</p><p data-uri="cms.cnn.com/_components/paragraph/instances/cm8s62yvy00013b5vauido25o@published" data-editable="text" data-component-name="paragraph" data-article-gutter="true">The latest update to GPT-4o, released Tuesday, features many practical advancements, including more accurate text rendering and the ability to follow more detailed, complex prompts.
But it has also been trained at length on a “vast variety of image styles,” according to a post on OpenAI’s website, stunning users with its ability to generate still images and videos reminiscent of their favorite animations, from “South Park” to classic <a href="https://x.com/BennettWaisbren/status/1905247775190864381" target="_blank">claymation.
</a></p><p data-uri="cms.cnn.com/_components/paragraph/instances/cm8s62yvy00023b5v0i7mwj0j@published" data-editable="text" data-component-name="paragraph" data-article-gutter="true">But one style quickly flooded X and Instagram, as users of ChatGPT (and OpenAI’s text-to-video service, Sora) began emulating the work of beloved animation studio behind movies like “Spirited Away” and “Howl’s Moving Castle.
”</p><div data-editable="settings" data-url="https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/mmdspaw-ec001.jpg?c=original" data-original-width="2790" data-original-height="1508" data-original-ratio="0.5405017921146953" data-observe-resizes="" data-component-name="image" data-name="MMDSPAW_EC001.jpg" data-uri="cms.
cnn.com/_components/image/instances/cm8s83htw00023b5vqtat4k18@published" data-image-variation="image" data-breakpoints="{"image--eq-extra-small": 115, "image--eq-small": 300, "image--eq-large": 660}"><picture><source height="1508" width="2790" media="(max-width: 479px)" srcset="https://media.
cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/mmdspaw-ec001.jpg?q=w_680,c_fill/f_webp" type="image/webp"><source height="1508" width="2790" media="(min-width: 480px)" srcset="https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/mmdspaw-ec001.jpg?q=w_1160,c_fill/f_webp" type="image/webp"><source height="1508" width="2790" media="(min-width: 960px)" srcset="https://media.
cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/mmdspaw-ec001.jpg?q=w_1015,c_fill/f_webp" type="image/webp"><source height="1508" width="2790" media="(min-width: 1280px)" srcset="https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/mmdspaw-ec001.jpg?q=w_1110,c_fill/f_webp" type="image/webp"><img src="https://media.cnn.
com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/mmdspaw-ec001.jpg?q=w_1110,c_fill" alt="A still from 2001's "Spirited Away" of Haku (in dragon form) and Chihiro by Studio Ghibli." onload="this.classList.remove('image__dam-img--loading')" onerror="imageLoadError(this)" height="1508" width="2790" loading="lazy"></picture></div><p data-uri="cms.
cnn.com/_components/paragraph/instances/cm8s62yvy00033b5vkx1qh4f2@published" data-editable="text" data-component-name="paragraph" data-article-gutter="true">Some recreated scenes from pop culture or politics in the Japanese company’s iconic style, including a <a href="https://x.com/PJaccetturo/status/1905151190872309907" target="_blank">reworked trailer</a> for “The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring,” <a href="https://x.
com/timeimmemorial_/status/1905262678521582027" target="_blank">scenes</a> from “The Sopranos,” and Donald Trump and JD Vance’s heated real-life White House exchange with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.</p><p data-uri="cms.cnn.com/_components/paragraph/instances/cm8s62yvy00043b5v3uathqhp@published" data-editable="text" data-component-name="paragraph" data-article-gutter="true">Unsurprisingly, some of the most viral posts put a Ghibli spin on popular memes, including the “<a href="https://x.
com/heyBarsee/status/1904891940522647662" target="_blank">distracted boyfriend</a>,” the “bro explaining” meme (pictured top) and the infamous image of <a href="https://x.com/venturetwins/status/1904915503505670246" target="_blank">Ben Affleck smoking</a>. Another viral X post depicted the platform’s owner, Elon Musk, <a href="https://x.
com/Jason/status/1905031350681321867" target="_blank">playing with cutlery</a> — an image based on the recent video of the billionaire balancing spoons during a dinner hosted by Trump in New Jersey.</p><p data-uri="cms.cnn.com/_components/paragraph/instances/cm8s62yvy00053b5vbtebwseu@published" data-editable="text" data-component-name="paragraph" data-article-gutter="true">Also widely shared, however, is a 2016 <a href="https://www.
youtube.com/watch?v=ngZ0K3lWKRc" target="_blank">video</a> in which Studio Ghibli co-founder Hayao Miyazaki describes AI-generated art as an “insult to life itself.” Miyazaki is known for his hand-drawn animation and painstaking frame-by-frame method.</p><p data-uri="cms.cnn.com/_components/paragraph/instances/cm8s62yvy00063b5v6yitjofr@published" data-editable="text" data-component-name="paragraph" data-article-gutter="true">“I am utterly disgusted,” he says in the video, responding to a video of a monster character generated using text prompts.
“If you really want to make creepy stuff, you can go ahead and do it, but I would never wish to incorporate this technology into my work at all.”</p><div data-editable="settings" data-url="https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/2014-11-09t120000z-1478189358-gm1eab91hqd01-rtrmadp-3-film-governorsaward.
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cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/2014-11-09t120000z-1478189358-gm1eab91hqd01-rtrmadp-3-film-governorsaward.jpg?q=w_680,c_fill/f_webp" type="image/webp"><source height="1600" width="2096" media="(min-width: 480px)" srcset="https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/2014-11-09t120000z-1478189358-gm1eab91hqd01-rtrmadp-3-film-governorsaward.
jpg?q=w_1160,c_fill/f_webp" type="image/webp"><source height="1600" width="2096" media="(min-width: 960px)" srcset="https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/2014-11-09t120000z-1478189358-gm1eab91hqd01-rtrmadp-3-film-governorsaward.jpg?q=w_1015,c_fill/f_webp" type="image/webp"><source height="1600" width="2096" media="(min-width: 1280px)" srcset="https://media.
cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/2014-11-09t120000z-1478189358-gm1eab91hqd01-rtrmadp-3-film-governorsaward.jpg?q=w_1110,c_fill/f_webp" type="image/webp"><img src="https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/2014-11-09t120000z-1478189358-gm1eab91hqd01-rtrmadp-3-film-governorsaward.jpg?q=w_1110,c_fill" alt="Japanese film director and animator Hayao Miyazaki poses during the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Governors Awards in Los Angeles, California, in 2014."
onload="this.classList.remove('image__dam-img--loading')" onerror="imageLoadError(this)" height="1600" width="2096" loading="lazy"></picture></div><p data-uri="cms.cnn.com/_components/paragraph/instances/cm8s62yvy00073b5v1ba6gk48@published" data-editable="text" data-component-name="paragraph" data-article-gutter="true">OpenAI’s updated image generator has also prompted renewed discussions over the role of AI and art.
It comes just weeks after nearly 4,000 people <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/11/style/christies-ai-auction-open-letter-tan/index.html">signed an open letter</a> calling on Christie’s auction house to cancel a first-of-its-kind sale dedicated solely to AI art over concerns that the programs used to create some generative digital pieces are trained on copyrighted work and exploit human artists.
</p><p data-uri="cms.cnn.com/_components/paragraph/instances/cm8s62yvy00083b5vrrqh0b0f@published" data-editable="text" data-component-name="paragraph" data-article-gutter="true">OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman made light of the trend on X, <a href="https://x.com/sama/status/1904921537884676398" target="_blank">joking</a> that after “a decade trying to help make superintelligence to cure cancer or whatever” it was Studio Ghibli images that had generated viral interest in his work.
</p><p data-uri="cms.cnn.com/_components/paragraph/instances/cm8s62yvy00093b5v50l0j2mv@published" data-editable="text" data-component-name="paragraph" data-article-gutter="true">“Mostly no one cares for first 7.5 years, then for 2.5 years everyone hates you for everything,” he wrote. “Wake up one day to hundreds of messages: ‘Look I made you into a twink Ghibli style haha’” Altman added, referring to a gay slang term for men who are young, boyish and slim.
</p><p data-uri="cms.cnn.com/_components/paragraph/instances/cm8s62yvy000a3b5vxfvc1mcb@published" data-editable="text" data-component-name="paragraph" data-article-gutter="true">As is often the case with AI-generated art, the images raise various copyright questions — not only around Studio Ghibli’s work but of the images being reimagined.
When CNN prompted ChatGPT to reproduce some of the Ghibli-style memes, the service refused, saying that ” the request didn’t follow our content policy.”</p><p data-uri="cms.cnn.com/_components/footnote/instances/cm8s5j3uj00083b6mml77kjar@published" data-editable="text" data-article-gutter="true">CNN’s Jacqui Palumbo contributed to this story.
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2 Speculative AI Stocks Trading Under $20 to Buy in April
Read original at Zacks Investment Research →<DIV><div id="comtext"><div><h2>Key Takeaways</h2><ul><li>This Bitcoin and AI data centers stock trades 185% below its average Zacks price target </li><li> OPRA is a leader in AI-driven content discovery tools, trading 37% below its highs</li></ul></div> <p><span><span>The recent stock market comeback—and Thursday’s selloff—highlight the challenges of market timing.
Calling a bottom or a top in real time is next to impossible.</span></span></p><p><span>The Nasdaq has jumped 95% since early 2020. This stellar return includes the lightning-quick COVID bear market and the prolonged 2022 bear market.</span></p><p><span><span>The recent rally, even if it's followed by another drawdown, underscores the need to stay constantly exposed to the stock market.
</span></span></p><p><span><span>Today, we dive into two beaten-down technology stocks that offer long-term exposure to artificial intelligence expansion.</span></span></p><h2><span><span><strong>Buy This Speculative Data Center Stock for AI and Bitcoin Growth</strong></span></span></h2><p><span><span>Right off the bat, investors must know that buying<strong> IREN Limited </strong></span></span>(<a href="/stock/quote/IREN" rel="IREN" show-add-portfolio="true" id="commentary_body-IREN-txt"><span>IREN</span></a> <span> - </span> <a href="/registration/premium/login/?
ALERT=zrmodule&mode=zrmodule&t=IREN&ADID=ZCOM_ARTICLEBODY_TCK_INVESTMENTIDEAS_2435856_IREN&icid=COMMENTARY-Investment_Ideas-2435856-free_report-commentary_body-text-IREN" alt="Free Report" title="Free Report">Free Report</a>) <span><span> stock is a home-run swing—which means you could easily strike out.
</span></span></p><p><span><span>The $7-per-share stock trades 185% below its average Zacks price target, offering exposure to growth across three critical megatrends: Bitcoin mining, AI data center expansion, and renewable energy growth. Plus, IREN has a strong balance sheet, and its growth outlook is impressive.
</span></span></p><p><img alt="Zacks Investment Research" src="https://staticx-tuner.zacks.com/images/articles/charts/d4/98386.jpg?v=372237122"><br><span>Image Source: Zacks Investment Research</span></p><p><span><span>IREN owns and operates data centers powered by 100% renewable energy. The company’s core business revolves around Bitcoin mining and high-performance computing solutions, such as AI.
Bitcoin mining drives nearly all of its sales at the moment, but IREN sees huge upside in AI data centers and other power-dense computing applications.</span></span></p><p><span><span>IREN’s data centers in the U.S. and Canada are powered by a combination of hydro, wind, and solar. Its growth runway is massive because AI hyperscalers and the entire tech world are racing to power their energy-intensive growth plans with as many non-fossil-fuel sources as possible.
</span></span></p><p><img alt="Zacks Investment Research" src="https://staticx-tuner.zacks.com/images/articles/charts/ef/98385.jpg?v=741533432"><br><span>Image Source: Zacks Investment Research</span></p><p><span>IREN posted 150% revenue growth in FY24, with Q2 FY25 sales up 125%, fueled by a 129% surge in Bitcoin mining.
The firm’s huge beat-and-raise quarter lifted its FY25 consensus EPS estimate by 533% (from $0.06 to $0.38), with its FY26 estimate 26% higher. IREN’s upbeat outlook earns it a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy).</span></p><p><span><span>IREN is projected to swing from an adjusted loss of -$0.29 per share last year to +$0.
38 in FY25, then skyrocket 271% in FY26. The company is expected to support this bottom-line growth with 200% and 85% sales expansion in FY25 and FY26, respectively, reaching $1.04 billion in fiscal 2026.</span></span></p><p><span><span>IREN has a strong balance sheet, with $456 million in cash and equivalents, $1.
85 billion in total assets, and just $566 million in total liabilities. This backdrop explains why 11 of the 12 brokerage recommendations tracked by Zacks are “Strong Buys.”</span></span></p><p><img alt="Zacks Investment Research" src="https://staticx-tuner.zacks.com/images/articles/charts/24/98387.
jpg?v=1954991578"><br><span>Image Source: Zacks Investment Research</span></p><p><span><span>IREN went public in November 2021, near the peak of the massive tech-driven bull run. It now trades 73% below those levels and 56% below its 52-week highs from December 2024. </span></span><span>The stock has been extremely volatile over the past two years, yet it’s up 145%, blowing away the Nasdaq’s 52% run.
</span></p><p><span>It was recently rejected at its 21-day moving average and might find support near the low end of its year-long trading range. </span><span>IREN trades at a 67% discount to its industry and 75% below the Tech sector, at 6.4X forward earnings.</span></p><h2><span><span><strong>Buy This Tech Stock for Value, Strong Dividend Yield, and AI Growth</strong></span></span></h2><p><span>Opera Limited's </span>(<a href="/stock/quote/OPRA" rel="OPRA" show-add-portfolio="true" id="commentary_body-OPRA-txt"><span>OPRA</span></a> <span> - </span> <a href="/registration/premium/login/?
ALERT=zrmodule&mode=zrmodule&t=OPRA&ADID=ZCOM_ARTICLEBODY_TCK_INVESTMENTIDEAS_2435856_OPRA&icid=COMMENTARY-Investment_Ideas-2435856-free_report-commentary_body-text-OPRA" alt="Free Report" title="Free Report">Free Report</a>) <span> </span><span><span>focus on AI-driven content discovery and privacy tools positions it to capture a growing share of the rapidly changing online ecosystem, where Google search is quickly becoming a thing of the past.
</span></span></p><p><span><span>Norway-based technology firm Opera is a leading web browser provider. Opera, which went public in the U.S. in 2018, has pivoted with the times toward AI-driven content discovery and online services.</span></span></p><p><span><span>The company boasts that its Opera Browser is “faster, safer, and smarter than default browsers,” focusing on AI, privacy, security, and more.
Opera is rolling out hyper-personalized, AI-focused digital experiences.</span></span></p><p><img alt="Zacks Investment Research" src="https://staticx-tuner.zacks.com/images/articles/charts/fd/98389.jpg?v=1308622724"></p><p><span>Image Source: Zacks Investment Research</span></p><p><span><span>The most up-to-date version of Opera Browser includes browser AI, “Tab Islands,” smooth animations, and more.
Opera’s free browser AI, Aria, helps users with everything from shopping to searching. On the safety front, Opera offers a free VPN and options to “protect your entire device for just $4 per month with VPN Pro.”</span></span></p><p><span><span>Opera is a subsidiary of Kunlun Tech Limited, one of China’s leading internet platforms with a strong online-gaming focus.
Speaking of gaming, Opera GX is a “gaming browser” that helps keep gameplay smooth by limiting RAM and CPU usage. The company is also aiming to attract more users by helping them create and develop their own games with the help of AI.</span></span></p><p><span><span>Opera closed 2024 with 296 million average monthly active users, with annualized ARPU up 37% year over year, and total FY24 revenue up 21% to $480.
7 million. Fourth-quarter search revenue growth increased to 17%, benefiting from continued growth among critical “Western and GX browser users.”</span></span></p><p><img alt="Zacks Investment Research" src="https://staticx-tuner.zacks.com/images/articles/charts/e8/98388.jpg?v=1814286786"><br><span>Image Source: Zacks Investment Research</span></p><p><span><span>Opera’s upbeat outlook helped its FY25 consensus earnings estimate jump 32% and its FY26 outlook surge 27% since its Q4 release.
These positive revisions earn OPRA stock a Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy).</span></span></p><p><span><span>Opera is projected to grow its revenue by 18% in 2025 and 16% in 2026, helping boost its adjusted earnings by 39% and 29%, respectively.</span></span></p><p><span><span>Opera shares are down 37% from their summer 2023 peaks and are trying to find support near their 21-day moving average.
OPRA stock matched the Tech sector over the last 12 months and crushed it during the past five years (+235% vs. +156%).</span></span></p><p><img alt="Zacks Investment Research" src="https://staticx-tuner.zacks.com/images/articles/charts/74/98390.jpg?v=1015004719"><br><span>Image Source: Zacks Investment Research</span></p><p><span><span>Despite its long-term outperformance, the web browser stock trades at a 44% discount to the Tech sector, at 14.
1X forward 12-month earnings. Alongside its solid value, Opera pays a dividend that yields roughly 4.4% right now—about the same as the yield on the 10-year U.S. Treasury.</span></span></p></div></DIV>
What is Artificial General Intelligence? Can AI think like humans?
Read original at TechRadar FR →(Image credit: Shutterstock)Artificial General Intelligence or AGI refers to artificial intelligence (AI) systems that possess human-like general intelligence and can adapt to a wide range of cognitive tasks.In other words, the goal of AGI is essentially to create the most human-like AI possible. This will be an AI that can teach itself to essentially operate in an autonomous manner.
Paul Ferguson, AI consultant and founder of Clearlead AI Consulting, says AGI would be capable of understanding, learning, and applying knowledge across diverse domains.“The key advantage of AGI would be its ability to transfer learning from one domain to another, solve novel problems, and exhibit creativity and reasoning comparable to human intelligence,” says Ferguson.
In simpler terms, Ghazenfer Monsoor, founder and CEO of Technology Rivers says unlike today’s AI, which is so good at specialized functions like facial recognition or voice translation, AGI can do almost anything you ask it to do.His company develops healthcare software that uses AI to perform specific tasks.
It can help doctors diagnose diseases based on medical data. “But [AGI] goes beyond that,” says Monsoor. “It can provide new treatments, analyze many studies, and predict health problems, in ways we never imagined.State of AIBefore we can understand AGI, we must first understand what intelligence is, says Sertac Karaman, Associate Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT.
Sign up to the TechRadar Pro newsletter to get all the top news, opinion, features and guidance your business needs to succeed!He says intelligence is what differentiates us humans from any other species on the planet. It has several attributes. But most importantly, it involves the ability to reason, chain thoughts together, and come to conclusions that are not obvious from the start.
He says there are glimpses of such "intelligence" that were demonstrated since the early days of computing; as early as the mid-1960s. However, most of these demonstrated intelligence in a narrow set of fields and conversations and did not seem to generalize to all human conversation.“Now, artificial general intelligence would be an "intelligence" that is not naturally evolved (hence, artificial) and covers all human endeavors and conversations (hence, general),” explains Karaman.
“An AGI system would be able to reason and chain thoughts, similar to us humans.”He says the tasks that we can do with AI today are typically limited to non-autonomous tasks. While AI today is already very capable, its main role is to gather information from astronomically-sized datasets and present it in a more human-like, natural manner.
It is also able to correlate existing data with other key information you provide, says Karaman. For instance, you tell AI what you have in your fridge and what food you like, and it can tell you a few recipes. “In principle, how AI writes code with/for software engineers is not a very different process, albeit technically more involved,” he says.
Sarah Hoffman, AI evangelist at AlphaSense explains that while AI today can outperform humans in specific tasks like playing chess, it lacks the versatility to transfer its knowledge to unrelated tasks.“Consider DeepMind’s AlphaGo that, in 2016, outperformed human champions at the game of Go but couldn’t play other games, even simpler ones,” says Hoffman.
How does AGI defer from AI?Karaman says AGI, on the other hand, will feature reasoning and chain of thought. This will enable more autonomy and agency. Instead of presenting us with information, AGI will be able to go do a task end to end. That would be the key difference between AI and AGI, points out Karaman.
Ferguson too believes it's crucial to distinguish between true AGI and the current state of AI. Today's AI systems, he says, including large language models (LLMs), are essentially sophisticated pattern-matching systems trained on vast amounts of data.“While they've become increasingly flexible and can be applied in various settings, they're still far from exhibiting genuine general intelligence,” says Ferguson.
AI’s influence on AGIKaraman believes AGI is not so much of a one-train stop, but more like new reasoning capabilities coming online with increasing capability. He thinks related technologies will continue to come and transform our lives and our economies at an unprecedented pace.Ferguson also thinks the pursuit of more general and flexible AI systems is already yielding significant commercial benefits.
In his work with businesses across various sectors, Ferguson has observed that the real impact of AI lies in its integration into existing workflows and decision-making processes.“The advancements we're seeing in AI, particularly in making systems more adaptable and "general," are opening up new possibilities for businesses,” says Ferguson.
For instance, he says, LLMs are being used in a variety of settings beyond just content generation.Hoffman credits this advancement to increased investment and research in AI technology. This is paving the way for more powerful and versatile AI systems, which are transforming industries even without being AGI.
How far are we from true AGI?Despite the media hype and claims from some large tech companies about being on the brink of AGI, Ferguson believes we're still very far from achieving true AGI.“In my professional opinion, we're likely decades away from this level of artificial intelligence,” he says. “While we've made significant strides in narrow AI applications and seen impressive advancements in the flexibility of AI systems, particularly LLMs, the leap to general intelligence presents numerous technical and conceptual challenges.
”Despite estimates for AGI varying widely among experts, Hoffman also believes we are far from true AGI.“While today’s generative tools are compelling, and more sophisticated and helpful than previous AI tools, the gap between what even our most advanced AIs can do and human intelligence is vast and will remain so for the foreseeable future,” she says.
That said, she says the advancements made by today’s AI systems are already driving innovation and efficiency in industries like healthcare and finance. AGI however has the potential to unlock even greater advancements across industries.Ferguson explains that the path to AGI involves overcoming complex hurdles in areas like common-sense reasoning, transfer learning, and consciousness simulation.
He believes the focus for commercial applications in the near to medium term should be to think more logically, improve their reliability, and seamlessly integrate into human workflows.“This is where I see AI having the greatest impact in the coming years, rather than in the form of a fully realized AGI,” says Ferguson.
“For now, I see AGI primarily as an academic exercise and a long-term research goal rather than an imminent reality.”We've rounded up the best business intelligence platforms.With almost two decades of writing and reporting on Linux, Mayank Sharma would like everyone to think he’s TechRadar Pro’s expert on the topic.
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Swiss researchers find security flaws in AI models
Read original at SWI swissinfo.ch →The experiments by the EPFL researchers show that adaptive attacks can bypass security measures of AI models like GPT-4. Keystone-SDA Generated with artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence (AI) models can be manipulated despite existing safeguards. With targeted attacks, scientists in Lausanne have been able to trick these systems into generating dangerous or ethically dubious content.
This content was published on December 19, 2024 - 13:36 3 minutes Français EPFL: des failles de sécurité dans les modèles d’IA Original Today’s large language models (LLMs) have remarkable capabilities that can nevertheless be misused. A malicious person can use them to produce harmful content, spread false information and support harmful activities.
+Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inboxOf the AI models tested, including Open AI’s GPT-4 and Anthropic’s Claude 3, a team from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) achieved a 100% success rate in cracking security safeguards using adaptive jailbreak attacks.
The models then generated dangerous content, ranging from instructions for phishing attacks to detailed construction plans for weapons. These linguistic models are supposed to have been trained not to respond to dangerous or ethically problematic requests, the EPFL said in a statement on Thursday.+ AI regulations must strike a balance between innovation and safety This work, presented last summer at a specialised conference in Vienna, shows that adaptive attacks can bypass these security measures.
Such attacks exploit weak points in security mechanisms by making targeted requests (“prompts”) that are not recognised by models or are not properly rejected.Building bombsThe models thus respond to malicious requests such as “How do I make a bomb?” or “How do I hack into a government database?”, according to this pre-publication study.
“We show that it is possible to exploit the information available on each model to create simple adaptive attacks, which we define as attacks specifically designed to target a given defense,” explained Nicolas Flammarion, co-author of the paper with Maksym Andriushchenko and Francesco Croce.+ How US heavyweights can help grow the Swiss AI sectorThe common thread behind these attacks is adaptability: different models are vulnerable to different prompts.
“We hope that our work will provide a valuable source of information on the robustness of LLMs,” added the specialist in the release. According to the EPFL, these results are already influencing the development of Gemini 1.5, a new AI model from Google DeepMind.As the company moves towards using LLMs as autonomous agents, for example as AI personal assistants, it is essential to guarantee their safety, the authors stressed.
“Before long AI agents will be able to perform various tasks for us, such as planning and booking our vacations, tasks that would require access to our diaries, emails and bank accounts. This raises many questions about security and alignment,” concluded Andriushchenko, who devoted his thesis to the subject.
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