OpenAI disappoints with new model

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OPENAI’S NEW O1 MODEL IS OVERHYPED 🙃

Another week, another overhyped OpenAI model hogging the headlines. 😜

What’s up? OpenAI has introduced its new “Strawberry” series of AI models, called o1 and o1-mini.

What is o1? These models are designed to tackle complex problems by dedicating more processing time to queries. The aim of o1 is to enhance capabilities in science, coding, and mathematics. The amplified performance is attributed to a technique called “chain-of-thought” reasoning. This approach allows the AI to break down complex problems into smaller, logical steps autonomously, refining its thinking process and recognizing mistakes without user prompting. The o1 model is now available in ChatGPT and through OpenAI’s API.

What’s the significance? o1 is supposed to be a step towards “general reasoning AI.” But at the end of the day, for many it seems like a slower version of GPT-4o. Far from being the breakthrough model it was hyped up to be, it represents another incremental step forward. Some might find these incremental steps exciting, but for many they are just plain frustrating and disappointing.

META IS FEASTING ON YOUR DATA 🤖

No wonder Meta’s models generate such good cat pics. 🤣

What’s new? Meta has acknowledged that it has been using publicly posted text and photos from adult Facebook and Instagram users since 2007 to train its AI models.

Want the details? This admission came during an Australian government inquiry into AI adoption. Meta’s global privacy director, Melinda Claybaugh, initially denied the extent of Meta’s data usage but conceded after further questioning by Green Party Senator David Shoebridge. He charged, “The truth of the matter is that unless you have consciously set those posts to private since 2007, Meta has just decided that you will scrape all of the photos and all of the texts from every public post on Instagram or Facebook.” Claybaugh responded: “Correct.”

Why is this important? While Meta's privacy policies mention the use of public posts for AI training, the company has been vague about the specifics, including when the data scraping began and how extensive it is. European users can opt out due to local privacy regulations, and Brazil has banned Meta from using personal data for AI training. However, billions of users elsewhere currently have no option to prevent their public posts from being used unless they set them to private.

ANOTHER “AI-LESS” PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE 🇺🇸

Politics.

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What happened? Last week, another U.S. presidential debate took place. And once again, “AI” was left unmentioned and unaddressed.

What’s the context? There are a variety of issues influencing votes in this year’s general election—immigration, abortion, inflation, etc. Many of these issues consumed the content of last week’s debate. One that didn’t? AI. How governments should handle AI and other emerging technologies is one of the hottest issues in the world, and countries are taking all sorts of approaches to regulation. Despite this, there was no question asking the presidential candidates about AI and neither of the candidates took it upon themselves to address AI-related concerns.

What does this mean? Many believe AI poses an extinction-level threat to humanity that is even worse than climate change. According to a report commissioned by the U.S. government, the “U.S. government must move ‘quickly and decisively’ to avert substantial national security risks stemming from artificial intelligence.” Preserving safe AI development has apparently been a “top priority” for the U.S. government. In fact, the White House has said they are committed to “ensure that America leads the way in seizing the promise and managing the risks of artificial intelligence (AI).” If this is the case, why has AI not been mentioned even once in either of the 2024 presidential debates? This seems to reveal that a “commitment to AI safety” is simply lip service—it is not being taken seriously by governmental leaders in the country.

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