The OpenAI/GaugeAI Correspondence: An A.I. Happens When a Chief Executive is Fleeing

The founding of OpenAI was over eight years ago and was founded by Altman, Brockman and others. It transformed into a successful company under the leadership of Altman. Last year, the company released ChatGPT, setting the pace for the tech industry’s focus on a sophisticated type of artificial intelligence known as generative AI.

Minutes after OpenAI announced Altman’s return to the company, Altman also posted, saying “I love openai, and everything i’ve done over the past few days has been in service of keeping this team and its mission together.”

A couple of signal events have happened in A.I. One of them you’ve heard about. The company’s chief executive was fired by the nonprofit that governs OpenAI. The decision was unexpected and largely unexplained. The board decided that he was not candid enough in his communications with them and that was the reason why Mr. Altman left.

Artificial intelligence researchers have long feared that the machine can not turn off. The story goes something like this: A powerful A.I. is developed. Its designers are overjoyed, then worried and terrified. They go to pull the plug, only to learn the A.I. has copied its code elsewhere, perhaps everywhere.

OpenAI’s CEO is the same as the board that fired Sam Altman last week: Anthropic’s Claude 2.1 Chatbot and Stability Video Diffusion

“We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam to return to OpenAI as CEO with a new initial board of Bret Taylor (Chair), Larry Summers, and Adam D’Angelo,” OpenAI said in a post to X, formerly known as Twitter. “We are collaborating to figure out the details. Thank you so much for your patience through this.”

The company said that it would create a new board of directors. This comes after the former board voted to fire Altman as CEO late last week.

Sutskever did not appreciate it when I joked that the bizarre org chart that mapped out this relationship looked like something a future GPT might come up with when prompted to design a tax dodge. “We are the only company in the world which has a capped profit structure,” he admonished me. If you think like we do and believe that if we succeed, then these graphics cards will take my job and your job, it’s nice if that company is not able to make unlimited amounts of returns. To ensure that the profit-seeking part of the company does not shirk their commitment to make sure that the Artificial Intelligence isn’t out of control, there’s a board keeping an eye on things.

This would-be guardian of humanity is the same board that fired Sam Altman last Friday, saying that it no longer trusted him because he was not consistently candid in his communications with the board. Almost no one at the company knew about the firing until it was announced, and no examples of that alleged behavior were provided. The investors got no advance notice. The four directors, representing a majority of the six-person board, also kicked OpenAI president and chairman Greg Brockman off the board. Brockman left quickly.

While the fate of OpenAI’s leadership remained in limbo, Anthropic announced a more powerful version of its Claude chatbot and Stability introduced a text to video generator called Stable Video Diffusion.

Anthropic has a new model, Claude 2.1. One is the ability to upload more data at once to the chatbot and fewer lies. The token limit for Claude has been raised to 200,000 token, making it roughly 500 page books. (Sorry Leo Tolstoy fans, you’ll have to wait until future updates to analyze all of War and Peace in a single prompt.) To compare, the rate limit for the GPT-4 Turbo model, announced by Altman pre-firing, is capped at 128,000.

Anthropic said that the new Claude is less likely to lie when it is unsure of an answer. According to the company, Claude 2.1 was tested with a set of questions that probed known weaknesses in current models. A lack of veracity, often described as hallucinations, continues to be a major issue for chatbots.

Launches of Stable Video Diffusion, Claude 2.1, and ChatGPT with Voice: What Did OpenAI Learn When You Were There?

The AI spits out a series of animations when you input a prompt into a text to video model. In addition to text-to-video capabilities, Stable Video Diffusion can transform your still images into videos by adding motion.

While this isn’t technically a new feature from OpenAI, the company rolled out ChatGPT with voice capabilities to everyone in the short period while Altman was out as CEO. Users who paid for OpenAI’s $20- a-month subscription service, CHATGPT Plus, are no longer allowed to use the feature.

It’s not yet giving Spike Jonze’s Her, but the software developers at OpenAI took another big step towards their goal of “multimodality” by giving the chatbot the ability to hold a conversation with you. The idea of a chatbot being even more powerful if it can accept inputs and produce outputs in multiple channels, like voice, text, and images, is a possibility. Who knows when it’ll learn how to smell.

It feels like every week there is a new launch from one of the major players. So, my guess is that the launches of Stable Video Diffusion and Claude 2.1 were likely just a coincidence,” says Dharmesh Shah, who’s the CTO and cofounder of HubSpot as well as an OpenAI shareholder.