AGI

A former safety employee at Microsoft Corp.-backed OpenAI has voiced concerns over the company’s approach to Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), drawing parallels with the ill-fated Titanic. What Happened: William Saunders, who worked for three years on OpenAI’s superalignment team,...

Roman Yampolskiy, an AI safety researcher believes that there’s a likelihood that humans could become obsolete in the wake of technologies like Elon Musk’s Neuralink, which seeks to merge human brains with Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). What Happened: During a discussion with...

Robin Li, CEO of Baidu, stated that artificial general intelligence (AGI) is more than a decade away, despite other industry leaders predicting its imminent arrival. What Happened: Li made these remarks during a talk at the VivaTech conference in Paris, CNBC reported on Thursday. He emphasized that...

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has expressed a resolute commitment to the development of artificial general intelligence (AGI), regardless of the financial cost. What Happened: Altman, in a recent interview with Stanford eCorner, conveyed his unwavering dedication to the AGI project, regardless of the...

Tech billionaire and xAI founder Elon Musk reacted to an AI researcher's comment that she does not trust OpenAI CEO Sam Altman to lead the artificial general intelligence (AGI) project. What Happened: Musk, who has been a vocal critic of Altman as well as OpenAI, was surprised when the researcher,...

Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA) CEO Elon Musk on Friday expressed readiness to take on OpenAI, Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MSFT), and Jeff Bezos after they invested $675 million in Figure AI Inc., an AI startup that is working on building "the world's first autonomous humanoid robot." What Happened:...

Tech billionaire Elon Musk has sued Sam Altman and OpenAI whilst also taking a shot at the largest company in the world, Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MSFT). Musk claims Altman and OpenAI have betrayed the ‘Founding Agreement' of the AI startup. What Happened: Musk filed a lawsuit on Thursday night in...

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman praised his team’s talent and dedication after the impressive launch of the video generator Sora AI model. He also invited others interested in contributing to the development of artificial general intelligence (AGI). What Happened: Altman took to X, formerly Twitter, on...

Before his sacking as CEO of OpenAI last week — and reinstatement this week — could Sam Altman have been working on an artificial intelligence system so powerful it might threaten the safety of humankind? It sounds like a horror story worthy of Skynet — the AI system in the Terminator films that...

German-American billionaire and PayPal Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ:PYPL) co-founder Peter Thiel thinks there is an "interdepartmental rivalry" and depending on who you ask, we are either living in a multiverse or a simulation. What Happened: In the World of DaaS podcast with Auren Hoffman, Thiel tried to...

Arm Holdings PLC (NASDAQ: ARM), known for its CPUs that Nvidia Corp.'s (NASDAQ: NVDA) GPUs rely on for artificial intelligence, took center stage Thursday with its IPO at a valuation of $54.5 billion, setting the record for 2023. The company shares are now trading at the $60 level, with...

Soft silicone skin with sensors that respond to the human touch. A perfect body with industrial-grade musculature that can run nimbly over rugged terrain, hurl a cinder block halfway across a basketball court or pick the right wine glass off the top shelf. Add an artificial brain that can beat the...