Welcome to our roundup of this weekâs spiciest AI news.
This week, Elon Musk claimed Sam Altman tricked him.
Google flopped at the Olympics.
And Argentinaâs president wants to use AI to predict crime.
Letâs dig in.
Back in court
Earlier this year Elon Musk sued OpenAI and his fellow co-founders only to drop the lawsuit a few months later. This week Musk filed a new lawsuit against Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, and OpenAI with additional claims.
The new allegations and charges offer fascinating insights into the early discussions before OpenAI became a reality. The lawsuit also shines a light on how seriously Musk views AIâs potential to destroy humanity.
The short version is that Musk says he was duped and OpenAI must pay up. Did things go down like Musks says or could his memory be a little fuzzy?
A rush for the exit
OpenAIâs week didnât get much better as its leadership was rocked by another set of high-profile exits.
It seems like the rush for the emergency exit doors hasnât slowed down yet. What has slowed down is the announcement of new product releases.
GPT-4 got a slight bump in performance this week but it still lags Claude Sonnet on the benchmarks. In the absence of GPT-5, voice assistants, and Sora, weâd even settle for a demo of some new feature just to keep our hopes up.
Googleâs Olympic fail
The Olympics are a celebration of excellence but Googleâs new Gemini ad wonât be winning any medals. The company pulled its controversial AI ad from Olympics coverage amid swift backlash.
The idea of using Gemini to replace heartfelt expressions from an ambitious little girl should probably never have made it past the marketing idea board stage.
I love using Gemini but while it still suggests that staring at the sun is a good idea, maybe we should let the kids write their own fan mail.
Itâs tough at the top
NVIDIA has had a meteoric rise but being top dog comes with additional scrutiny. The company faces two antitrust probes from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) over alleged anticompetitive behavior.
NVIDIA has also hit a few snags with its anticipated Blackwell chips which could give some hope to its competitors. Intelâs share price took a major dip this week but its Gaudi chips could see it claw back some of NVIDIAâs market share.
CheatGPT
Itâs becoming almost impossible for educators to tell if their students are using ChatGPT to write their assignments. Accurate AI-generated text detectors just donât seem to exist. Or do they?
It turns out OpenAI has had a tool for over a year that can detect text generated by ChatGPT. They say theyâve got good reasons why they havenât released it but maybe thereâs more to the story.
CheatGPT ?? đ€Ł pic.twitter.com/s1yGv28Hlc
â Renoir â (@RenoirAbadie) April 14, 2023
Future crime
In the movie adaptation of Philip K Dickâs Minority Report, Tom Cruiseâs character finds out the hard way that predictive policing doesnât work as well as advertised.
Argentinaâs fiery new president Javier Milei has decided to throw AI at a bunch of the countryâs problems, including security. His new âArtificial Intelligence Applied to Security Unitâ will use AI to âpredict future crimesâ.
Are you a criminal? Are you sure? Letâs ask the AI what it thinks you might get up to in the future.
In other newsâŠ
Here are some other clickworthy AI stories we enjoyed this week:
Introducing Figure 02
The worldâs most advanced AI hardware
Exclusive pics + technical writeupđ pic.twitter.com/2cts3pTIcN
â Brett Adcock (@adcock_brett) August 6, 2024
And thatâs a wrap.
Did you read Elon Muskâs new legal filing against OpenAI? They could publish it as a book and sell it on Amazon with zero edits. Itâs fascinating.
Letâs hope OpenAI gives us something more exciting to report next week. Less drama and more wow factor, please Sam.
Do you want the ChatGPT text detector to be released or do your grades depend on OpenAI holding off on that? Even if they do add watermarks, it seems like theyâll be pretty easy to remove.
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