AGI
Altman Shrugged: OpenAI boss updates his ever-changing countdown to superintelligence
Sam Altman issues another teasing semi-prediction about a "gentle singularity" and the dawn of artificial general intelligence (AGI)
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Is OpenAI's Codex "lazy"? Coding agent accused of being an idle system
"It needs to have the self-awareness to know whether it’s actually done the work and the humility to apologise when it hasn’t."
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ChatGPT and Sora go down in major global "elevated error rate" outage
Outage forces people around the world to use their actual brains for cognitive work rather than GenAI.
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OpenAI warns of "elevated security and safety risks" as Codex goes online
New coding agent can now roam free online, running the risk of malware infection, code exfiltration, prompt injection and other digital horrors.
AI Safety
OpenAI lets Codex loose on the internet, gets honest about dangers and "complex tradeoffs"
Just after the coding agent was given access to the web for the first time, a weird and probably totally unconnected outage hit X.
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ChatGPT developers call on OpenAI to introduce shocking NSFW "over-19" mode for adult users
Warning: Graphic and potentially upsetting content.
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OpenAI reveals how it stops Codex hacking, slacking off and selling drugs
The new coding agent could be used to do some very bad things, so has been locked down and sandboxed to prevent it from going rogue.
AI
Are Sam Altman and Elon Musk about to kiss and make up?
The feuding AI impresarios are about to meet in person and it could be a beautiful reunion or the most awkward moment ever.
AI
The etiquette of ChatGPT: Should you say please and thank you to AI?
It used to cost nothing to be polite - but that's certainly no longer the case in the age of GenAI.
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OpenAI exec hints at the hyper-annoying future of ChatGPT
If you think the sycophantic GPT-4o update that sparked GlazeGate is bad, wait until you hear how the proactive GenAI models of tomorrow might behave...
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OpenAI bins "sycophantic" ChatGPT update after "Glazegate" backlash
Sam Altman admits that GPT-4o has been sucking up to its users too intensely and takes surgent action to make it a bit less icky.
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Lewd language models: Has ChatGPT been asking users to send d*** pics?
Over-familiar AI accused of requesting a graphic image of a man's private parts whilst diagnosing a nasty-looking infection.