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Sam Altman and Bill Gates Interview: what you missed 👀

Apple shutters its AI team in San Diego, China gets a hold of banned US NVIDIA chips, GPT for fewer hallucinations, and more!

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January 15, 2024

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🎙 Daily Podcast Episode: The thing everyone overlooked from the Bill Gates and Sam Altman’s interview, Apple kinda shutting down its AI team in San Diego, 40% of jobs at risk due to AI, and more AI news that matters. Give it a listen.

🕵️‍♂️ Fresh Finds: An AI social media manager for D2C brands, AI announcements from CES 2024, and AI’s impact on 40% of jobs. Read on for Fresh Finds.

🗞 Byte Sized Daily AI News: Bill Gates interviews Sam Altman, Apple shutters its AI team, and China gets a hold of banned US NVIDIA chips. For that and more, read on for Byte Sized News.

🚀 AI In 5: We're checking out a GPT inside ChatGPT that helps to reduce hallucinations and give you better research. See it here

🧠 AI News That Matters: Wondering what to take away from recent AI news? We’re breaking down what you need to know. Keep reading for that!

↩️ Don’t miss out: Did you miss our last newsletter? We took a deep dive into on-device AI and its impacts, Taylor Swift's AI clone battle, and Microsoft testing new AI features on PCs. Check it here!

AI News That Matters - Jan. 15th, 2024 📰

Welcome to our second installment of our new segment, AI News That Matters!

Every Monday we're bringing you the biggest AI news and trends to keep an eye on and why it matters.

This week, we’re looking at the Bill Gates and Sam Altman interview, updates on Apple’s AI team, an AI recap from CES, and more!

Join the conversation and ask Jordan any questions on AI here.

Also on the pod today:

• Study of AI’s impact on jobs 💼
• OpenAI’s GPT Store 🛍
• OneX Robotics 🦾

It’ll be worth your 28 minutes:

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Here’s our favorite AI finds from across the web:

New AI Tool Spotlight – Friz is an AI social media manager for D2C brands, Code Monk offers AI team analytics to uncover gaps, and SocialTalk is an AI influencer marketing platform.

Trending in AI - Missed some of the AI announcements from CES 2024? Here’s what went down.

AI Tech - 1X, a robotics company backed by OpenAI, has raised $100M to create a humanoid robot.

Future of Work – According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), AI will affect 40% of all jobs.

AI in Education - This college senior is using AI to try to prove that all fingerprints are not unique. 

1. Bill Gates Interviews Sam Altman 🎙

In a recent interview with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Bill Gates expressed his surprise at the remarkable capabilities of ChatGPT, OpenAI's language model. The discussion also delved into the regulation of AI, with Altman suggesting the need to regulate the world's most powerful systems similar to the International Atomic Energy Agency's approach to nuclear weapons.

2. Apple Shutters San Diego AI Team 🚫

In a shocking move, Apple has decided to shut down its 121-person artificial intelligence (AI) team in San Diego. The team, known as Data Operations Annotations, will be relocated to Austin, Texas, merging with the existing Texas team. However, this reorganization leaves many employees uncertain about their future and at risk of losing their jobs.

3. Chinese Military Secretly Purchased Banned US NVIDIA Chips 🇨🇳

Chinese military bodies, state-run AI research institutes, and universities have been secretly buying small batches of Nvidia semiconductors, which are banned for export to China. These purchases could potentially fuel breakthroughs in AI and military technology. Despite the restrictions, Chinese entities have managed to acquire Nvidia's high-end chips, including the powerful A100 and H100 models.

4. OpenAI Deletes Ban on Military Use of AI 🪖

OpenAI quietly removed a policy that explicitly prohibited the use of its technology for military purposes. The company's revised usage policy no longer includes a ban on "weapons development" and "military warfare." This major change has raised concerns about OpenAI's commitment to ethical use of AI in the military domain. The move has left many wondering about the potential implications for the workplace and professional careers as militaries around the world seek to incorporate AI technologies.

5. Baidu's AI Scandal Sends Stocks Plummeting 📉

Baidu, China's renowned search engine and AI leader, faced a major blow as its Ernie AI platform was linked to military research. Despite denying any connection, Baidu's stocks plummeted by a staggering 11.5%, raising concerns of potential retaliation from the US. The South China Morning Post reported that a university affiliated with the People's Liberation Army had tested its AI system on Baidu's Ernie, amplifying fears of the company's involvement in cyberwarfare strategies.

GPT For Fewer Hallucinations and Better Research

We're showing you a custom GPT that will give you more reliable information and fewer hallucinations.

Consensus is an academic AI research assistant and it’s a great GPT to use!

1 – Bill Gates & Sam Altman Interview 😬

The duo sat down late last week for Bill Gates’ podcast, Unconfuse Me. You can listen to the whole thing here, but here’s the high-level of what you need to know. 

- GPT5? — No, they did not technically talk about GPT5. However, just about everyone on social media over the weekend was saying they did. Sam talked about improvements to future models, but did not mentionGPT-5 specifically. 

- Government approval for future LLMs? — Low key, this one stuck out for us. And no one’s really talking about it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Bill and Sam talked about AGI and what happens when all AI is smarter than all humans and how impressed Bill was with ChatGPT.

Expected.

But, this piece stuck out for us. Sam Altman talked about during a recent world tour and meeting with heads of state, there was overwhelming support for submitting extremely powerful LLMs to the equivalent of an International weapons inspector.

Yikes? 

What it means: 

A lot. Sam signaled the future of GPT is an increase in reasoning, reliability and multimodal input. Also, Bill and Sam talked a lot about the future of work and even what it’ll mean to humans when all AI is much smarter than us. 

2 – Apple Shutters AI Team 🧑‍🍳️

Kinda. 

A lot of false narratives are building from the recent news that Apple is shutting down its 121 person AI team in San Diego. 

True?

Yes.

But, that doesn’t mean Apple is loosening its grip on the GenAI race. Actually, Apple is wanting the team to relocate to Texas. (Which apparently, many aren’t willing to do.) 

What it means:

Apple ‘moving’ its AI team from one location to another doesn’t mean they’re throwing the towel in on AI. Apple is still very much in the GenAI scene, as we talked about in our 24 Bold AI predictions for 2024. Bookmark it y’all. 

3 – 1X Robotics Fundraising 🧑‍💻️

The OpenAI-backed 1X Robotics raised a hefty $100 million in its latest fundraising round. The company is working to build humanoid robots that can assist around the house. 

What it means: Yeah, yeah, yeah. We’ve been talking about AI-powered robots helping around the house since the Jetsons.

Buuuut, keep an eye out on the 1X Open House event later in January, where they’ll be debuting their newest human robots to a select group. 

4 – CES 2024 AI Recap 🏢

As expected, just about everything at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas was centered around GenAI. 

I mean, do we really need a ChatGPT-powered toy for our dogs? Maybe? 

What it means: We talked about this before, but 2024 is the year of AI everywhere. The megacap tech companies (Microsoft, Nvidia, Google, etc) started mentioning ‘AI’ more and more in their earnings calls in 2023.

4 – 40% of jobs at risk due to AI 💼

An IMF Study JUST released warns that almost 40% of jobs globally could be affected by AI, with advanced economies being more at risk. 

Like the U.S. 

Welp. 

What it means: The International Monetary Fund said that the job loss due to AI is expected to worsen overall inequality and policymakers must take proactive measures to prevent social tensions.

We’ve been saying since Day 1 that AI is going to be disruptive to the job market.

Luckily, you’re reading this and are already ahead of your peers. 🤝

5 – OpenAI releases GPT Store

We’ve talked about this multiple times, and even had a live show last week showing you how to create (and monetize!) a custom GPT. 

But, if you haven’t kept up with the GPT Store developments, we got you!

To recap, the GPT store is live so you can see what other useful GPTs are out there. (Like our AI in 5 recap today.) So anyone can create and share a GPT, and you can find other top apps in the store.

What it means:

The way that we work will likely change due to GPTs. In the same way that software and apps changed how we interact with the internet over the last few decades, we expect a strong shift toward micro-GPT usage for your everyday tasks. 

Think — there’s a GPT for that. 

What it means:

Join us tomorrow, as we’ll let you know what OpenAI got REALLY wrong with the GPT store. 

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Numbers to watch

260

The number of enterprise customers that OpenAI says are using its ChatGPT Enterprise product.

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