#openai
The Workers Behind #AI Rarely See Its Rewards. This Indian #Startup Wants to Fix That
Chopra isn’t the first tech founder to rhapsodize about the potential of #AI data #work to benefit the world’s poorest. Sama, an #outsourcing company that has handled contracts for #OpenAI’s #ChatGPT and #Meta’s #Facebook, also marketed itself as an “ethical” way for tech companies to lift people in the Global South out of #poverty. But as I reported in January, many of its ChatGPT workers in Kenya—some earning less than $2 per hour—told me they were exposed to training data that left them traumatized. The #company also performed similar content moderation work for Facebook; one worker on that project told me he was fired when he campaigned for better working conditions. When asked by the BBC about low wages in 2018, Sama’s late founder argued that paying workers higher #could disrupt local economies, causing more harm than good. Many of the data workers I’ve spoken to while reporting on this industry for the past 18 months have bristled at this logic, saying it’s a convenient narrative for companies that are getting rich off the proceeds of their labor.
Our prosperity is based on merciless exploitation. No new knowledge and new technologies do not change this.
#technology #economy #problem #health #news #capitalism #future
"OpenAI might have to soon declare bankruptcy, as per a report by Analytics India Magazine."
Hmm I find it hard to imagine people would let the company that developed the world's best large language model go away. But let's see what they say.
"Apparently, it costs OpenAI about $700,000 every day to run just one of its AI services -- ChatGPT." "OpenAI's attempt to monetise GPT-3.5 and GPT-4, OpenAI is not generating enough revenue to break even at this point."
"The problem [...] is that there are several open-source LLM models that are free to use and are allowed to be repurposed, without any licensing issues." "Why would someone choose OpenAI's paid, proprietary, and restricted version, over the more adaptable and free-to-use LLaMA 2, especially given its potential superiority in specific scenarios?"
"OpenAI has been on the lookout for new and better ways to monetise its GPT-4 LLMs. However, it hasn't achieved profitability. Its losses reached $540 million since the development of ChatGPT."
OpenAI got a $10 billion investment from Microsoft. $540 million is about half of the first billion. Is it really a problem? Seems to me like OpenAI can't be near bankruptcy any time soon.
ChatGPT In Trouble: OpenAI may go bankrupt by 2024, AI bot costs company $700,000 every day
Researchers test #AI models according to their political views
source (PDF): https://aclanthology.org/2023.acl-long.656.pdf
A team of researchers from various universities has looked at AI and classified them according to their political #orientation. Different disciplines are supposed to find out. The result: #OpenAI programs such as #ChatGPT and GPT-3 tend to respond in a more liberal and left-leaning way, while #Meta's #LLama and #Bert appear more right-leaning authoritarian.
"On June 20th, George Hotz, founder of self-driving startup Comma.ai leaked that GPT-4 isn't a single monolithic dense model (like GPT-3 and GPT-3.5) but a mixture of 8 x 220-billion-parameter models. Later that day, Soumith Chintala, co-founder of PyTorch at Meta, reaffirmed the leak. Just the day before, Mikhail Parakhin, Microsoft Bing AI lead, had also hinted at this."
"GPT-4 is not one big >1T model but eight smaller ones cleverly put together. The mixture of experts paradigm OpenAI supposedly used for this 'hydra' model is neither new nor invented by them."
The secret history of Elon #Musk, Sam #Altman, and #OpenAI
Source: https://www.semafor.com/article/03/24/2023/the-secret-history-of-elon-musk-sam-altman-and-openai
OpenAI was created as an #opensource (which is why I named it “Open” AI), non-profit company to serve as a counterweight to #Google, but now it has become a closed source, maximum-profit company effectively controlled by #Microsoft.
#Snapchat’s new #AI #chatbot is already raising alarms among teens and parents
Source: https://edition.cnn.com/2023/04/27/tech/snapchat-my-ai-concerns-wellness/index.html
Other users shared concerns about how the tool understands, interacts with and collects information from photos. “I snapped a picture … and it said ‘nice shoes’ and asked who the people [were] in the photo,” a Snapchat user wrote on Facebook.
#technology #teenagers #children #education #problem #ethics #moral #society #economy #software #news #openAI
Google: "We have no moat, and neither does OpenAI". Allegedly leaked internal Google document.
"We aren't positioned to win this arms race and neither is OpenAI. While we've been squabbling, a third faction has been quietly eating our lunch."
"I'm talking, of course, about open source. Plainly put, they are lapping us. Things we consider 'major open problems' are solved and in people's hands today. Just to name a few:"
"LLMs on a Phone: People are running foundation models on a Pixel 6 at 5 tokens / sec."
"Scalable Personal AI: You can finetune a personalized AI on your laptop in an evening."
"Responsible Release: This one isn't 'solved' so much as 'obviated'. There are entire websites full of art models with no restrictions whatsoever, and text is not far behind."
"Multimodality: The current multimodal ScienceQA SOTA was trained in an hour."
"While our models still hold a slight edge in terms of quality, the gap is closing astonishingly quickly."
ChatGPT wieder in Italien verfügbar – Nun mit Altersprüfung | DW | 28.04.2023
Im März hatte Italien Aufsehen erregt, als es als erstes westliches Land gegen die KI-Anwendung ChatGPT vorging. Nachdem der Anbieter seinen Internet-Auftritt geändert hat, ist er in Italien nun wieder zugänglich.#Italien #ChatGPT #Chatbot #OpenAI #Datenschutz #KünstlicheIntelligenz #Garante #Kinder
ChatGPT wieder in Italien verfügbar – Nun mit Altersprüfung | DW | 28.04.2023
AI: stop to ChatGPT by the Italian SA
The privacy guarantor: "Personal data is collected unlawfully, no age verification system is in place for children".
ChatGPT is currently blocked in Italy:
#privacy #openai #chatgpt #gpt3 #gpt4 #gpt5 #Italy #ai #artificialintelligence #chatbots #assistant #technology #ethics
