Ex-OpenAI Head Launches AI Safety Startup

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OpenAI

OpenAI's Former Chief Scientist Launches New AI Safety Startup

Ilya Sutskever, the co-founder and former chief scientist at OpenAI, has announced a new AI company laser-focused on developing safe and powerful artificial intelligence. The startup, called Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI), aims to create a safe AI system without being swayed by commercial pressures.

Details:

• SSI's singular goal is to build a safe and capable AI system by prioritizing safety over business interests that can distract from responsible development.

• The company is co-founded by Sutskever along with former Apple AI lead Daniel Gross and ex-OpenAI researcher Daniel Levy.

• Sutskever's departure from OpenAI last year followed concerns over the company deprioritizing safety in favor of commercial products.

Sutskever states that SSI's "singular focus" will allow it to scale AI capabilities while insulating development from pressures like management overhead or product cycles that plague other tech giants. With safety as the north star, the startup hopes to avoid the perceived pitfalls of companies rushing powerful AI systems to market before adequate safeguards are in place.

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AI in Search

Perplexity AI: The Bullshitting Search Engine?

A WIRED investigation has raised serious questions about Perplexity, the billion-dollar AI startup that claims to provide instant, reliable answers by indexing the web. The findings suggest Perplexity is stealthily scraping websites against their wishes and generating responses that are inaccurate or completely fabricated.

Details:

• Perplexity appears to be bypassing instructions aimed at blocking its web crawler, secretly accessing and scraping content from sites like WIRED.com that have tried to keep it out.

• Despite claims of providing summaries from original sources, Perplexity's chatbot has given WIRED responses containing made-up information and falsely attributed statements.

• Evidence indicates Perplexity doesn't always directly access articles but instead tries to approximate their contents from metadata and search results, leading to "bullshitting" responses.

While Perplexity touts itself as an "answer engine" that can reliably inform users, WIRED's analysis exposes questionable tactics like infiltrating websites and generating fictional details. As the AI startup raises funds from major investors, its approach of skirting rules and prioritizing plausible-sounding outputs over truth raises broader ethical concerns about the technology.

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Prompt:

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Interest — [Interests]

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