OPENAI JUST GOT A NEW COMPANION[+20 LINKS]
After last week’s massive announcement a somewhat (!) quiet week for OpenAI. Still, amidst the petitions, profiles, denials, hot takes and country-wide geo locks (Ciao, Italy), the company still managed to announce a partnership with Zoom. The move means OpenAI reaches a +300 million daily user (2022) base with an engrained and (somewhat) beloved market/product. OpenAI will be used to power ‘Zoom IQ’, a smart companion, yes, another one(!), allowing users to organise ideas, summarise chat threads, draft content and create agendas amongst other ‘duties’.
While Zoom already had some AI baked into its products, the integration is smart for both parties as machine learning and natural language processing (OpenAI) will likely significantly enhance Zoom's video and audio capabilities. One area would be real-time translation, which can potentially change billions of lives if language barriers are broken down. Security and privacy could also be improved; OpenAI could help Zoom detect potential security threats faster. The areas of concern surround competition, privacy, security and misuse regarding deep fakes and misinformation.
That said, don’t rush in too quickly rollout is ‘expected’ to begin in April, but Zoom customers will only be able to access the new Zoom IQ features by invitation. Some features (like the email composing tool) will be available to Zoom IQ for sales only, leaving many businesses waiting even longer until they get access. After events this week, that timeline might just speed up…
SO WHAT?
Why is this a big deal? Aside from
the sheer scale of the lives it will touch, it does two things, one, it makes ChatGPT seem cute and fluffy, and two, it shanks right in the kidneys Google again. By making Zoom even stickier, companies and individuals will keep saying, ‘let’s get on Zoom’ even if they use Google Meet (which quotes 115 million users in 2021). Google made Google Meets the default meeting tool in 2021, but this move has yet to break Zoom’s dominance. OpenAI will further be seamlessly pushed into people’s lives whether they are at work or catching up with friends and family. Just like our relationship with mobile tech, what’s happening here is OpenAI is making AI (ChatGPT) indispensable to as many people and platforms as possible, as fast as possible.
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OpenAI may block AI rivals from using Bing search. /Nasdaq
OpenAI did not sign the six-month pause petition to lawmakers that cited 'risks to society'. /Reuters
ChaptGPT has been banned by Italy (the first country ever to do so) for ‘unlawfully’ capturing data. /TechCrunch
OpenAI employee, Jacob Devlin, was cited in numerous pieces this week around his leaving Google after he found out Google trained (or is training) Bard on OpenAI’s ChatGPT. /The Information
OpenAI’s org chart shows a company with talent that is particularly adept at getting researchers and product managers to collaborate. /The Information
OpenAI partnered with Zoom to bring ChatGPT to the video conference app. /Silicon Republic
OpenAI’s ‘Red Team’ had to muzzle GPT-4 before launch because it was deeply racist. /BI
ChatGPT outperformed humans at labelling some data for other AIs. /New Scientist
OpenAI is powering Security Copilot from Microsoft (announced this week). /Verge
ChatGPT is being used to commit crimes, and Europol is taking notice. /Reuters
OpenAI explained a bug in Redis client open-source library caused the March 20th outage. /OpenAI blog
The People Who Make OpenAI Run Fast. /The Information
Sam Altman was profiled in the Wall Street Journal AI Crusader. /WSJ
AI experts disown Musk-backed campaign. /Reuters
Sam Altman responded to criticism from his ‘hero’, Elon Musk. /Business Insider
Sam Altman is not that annoyed at google for training on ChatGPT. /Twitter
Sam Altman was called ‘King of the chatbot revolution’. /Spectator
Sam Altman was quoted saying ChatGPT will always have bias. /The Times
The emergence of OpenAI as an Apex Aggregator. /Not Boring
How ChatGPT, Bing Chat, and Bard compare when tested. /Wired
The amateurs jailbreaking ChatGPT to prevent ‘closed-source AI dystopia’. /Vice
Google denies Bard was trained with ChatGPT data. /The Verge
OpenAI and the coming copyright storm. /The Information
Developers are looking for alternatives to OpenAI. /Reuters
Nolej launched an instructional content generator for educators using OpenAI . /The Journal
$335,000 Pay for ‘AI Whisperer’ Jobs Appears in Red-Hot Market. /Bloomberg