*sigh* If solely the billionaires of the world would allocate their cash to extra productive causes than petty spite and revenge.
At this time, The Verge has reported that OpenAI is trying to construct its personal social media app, which might be targeted on photos created by way of its numerous picture era instruments.
As per The Verge:
“Whereas the mission remains to be in early phases, we’re instructed there’s an inside prototype targeted on ChatGPT’s picture era that has a social feed. CEO Sam Altman has been privately asking outsiders for suggestions concerning the mission, our sources say. It’s unclear if OpenAI’s plan is to launch the social community as a separate app or combine it into ChatGPT, which grew to become the most downloaded app globally final month.”
The inspiration for this, after all, is X, which now powers xAI’s Grok AI chatbot, and its different AI initiatives, by feeding via real-time knowledge from the social community.
Which is a robust flywheel, feeding in an ever-evolving stream of real-time content material, which helps to maintain Grok’s solutions contemporary. And OpenAI apparently needs the identical.
Increasingly publishers want to prohibit OpenAI’s entry to their content material, which is able to make it more durable for the corporate to maintain its AI responses related. Basically, AI initiatives want large quantities of information, ideally flowing into their circuits in a gentle stream, and OpenAI, at this stage, doesn’t have anyplace close to the continued knowledge assets of its rivals.
Which is the place its personal social community idea is available in, which, as a bonus, would additionally give OpenAI chief Sam Altman one other means to slap again at Elon Musk, his former enterprise accomplice turned foil within the evolving AI race.
Musk was an early investor in OpenAI, pledging $100 million to the initially not-for-profit, AI-for-good mission. However from the get-go, Musk and Altman didn’t see eye-to-eye. Musk, reportedly, pushed to take extra possession of the mission, by nominating himself as CEO, a proposal which was rebuffed by the OpenAI board. In response, Musk withdrew his funding, then left the mission totally, labeling it “doomed” for refusing his expanded help.
Since then, after all, OpenAI has risen from not-for-profit experiment to a fully-fledged AI enterprise. And evidently, that success irks Elon every single day.
Musk created his personal AI mission, xAI, seemingly out of spite for the OpenAI group, vowing to construct a greater, “non woke”, AI system, which might be “maximally truth-seeking.” Musk has additionally launched authorized motion in opposition to Open AI (and first investor Microsoft) for stealing Twitter/X knowledge, and likewise for primarily stealing his cash, by changing the mission right into a for-profit enterprise, regardless of initially gathering funding for a counter-purpose.
Earlier this 12 months, Musk even launched a takeover bid for OpenAI, in one other escalation of his ongoing beef. Altman publicly rejected Musk’s supply, however he additionally famous that OpenAI could be pleased to buy Twitter for $9.74 billion.
And whereas that is all a part of the grand rich-guy Olympics, the place they publicly compete to showcase who’s probably the most dominant, there was possible some reality to Altman’s supply, given the worth {that a} social community would have for the AI mission.
Which, once more, is why OpenAI is contemplating its personal social community, although gaining any vital traction with such would seemingly be tough. Although as The Verge notes, ChatGPT is at the moment probably the most downloaded app on the earth, and perhaps, by piggy-backing a sharing possibility on prime of that, OpenAI might produce a viable social community, at the least with reference to sharing prompts and visible outputs.
It could possibly be one thing, or it might simply be one other footnote within the broader Elon versus OpenAI story.
Both means, it’s one other attention-grabbing reminder of the worth that knowledge performs within the new AI panorama.
