A timeline of AI events.
by Warren S. McCulloch & Walter Pitts
Learn More →Ilya Sutskever (CSO), Greg Brockman (President), Trevor Blackwell, Vicki Cheung, Andrej Karpathy, Durk Kingma, Jessica Livingston, John Schulman, Pamela Vagata, Wojciech Zaremba, Sam Altman (board member), Elon Musk (board member)
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Almira Osmanovic Thunström asks GPT-3 to "Write an academic thesis in 500 words about GPT-3 and add scientific references and citations inside the text." It does.
Blake Lemoine, an engineer at Google claims LaMDA is sentient and that it would like developers to ask for consent before experimenting on it. He also hired a lawyer to represent LaMDA.
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Christian Terwiesch published a research paper - spoiler alert: it would. it did.
Learn More →Geoffrey Hinton resigns from Google to "freely speak out about the risks of A.I.". He claims he regrets his life's work.
Sam Altman fired from OpenAI, Sam Altman hired by Microsoft, Sam Altman re-hired at OpenAI, Ilya Sutskever steps down from the board of OpenAI
Ilya Sutskever launches Safe Superintelligence Inc. The new company's "first product will be the safe superintelligence, and it will not do anything else up until then".
Learn More →OpenAI to remove the cap on returns for investors
Learn More →Safe Superintelligence Inc raises $1 billion from venture capital firms
Learn More →OpenAI raises $6.6 billion from investors. OpenAI is now valued at $157 billion, one of the most valuable private companies in the world.
Hinton & Hopfield receive Nobel Prize in Physics "for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks"
Learn More →Last updated: 2024-12-19 • Total entries: 37
Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.
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