New: Teachers are increasingly desperate for a reliable way to determine if students have used ChatGPT to complete school work. OpenAI has developed such a tool — but hasn't released it. Story w/Deepa Seetharaman. (Link below.)

I shared the following note with my OpenAI colleagues today: I've made the difficult decision to leave OpenAI. This choice stems from my desire to deepen my focus on AI alignment, and to start a new chapter of my career where I can return to hands-on technical work. I've decided

Really striking view of Tim Walz from deep in the The New York Times archives archive.is/2024.08.05-031…

Zico Kolter from Carnegie Mellon joins OpenAI’s Board, bringing technical and AI safety expertise; he also joins the Safety & Security Committee. openai.com/index/zico-kol…

We enjoyed our conversation with Deepa Seetharaman, Shirin Ghaffary, and ✦Mr. Sullivan so much that we're aiming to take the show to SXSW! Mind lending us a vote to make it happen? It makes a huge difference and only takes a moment. panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/151312

More training data isn’t always better! We (joint work w.Deb Raji and Irene Chen) will present our new work: The Data Addition Dilemma, at MLHC 2024 this week! (1/5)

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8. Being fair and transparent is one thing. But preventing young reporters for expressing empathy over the human condition— or talking about their identities — feels ethically fraught

lorelai going to rory’s first day at chilton

OpenAI in Talks for Funding Round Valuing It Above $100 Billion — scoop via ⁦Tom Dotan⁩ & ⁦Berber Jin⁩ wsj.com/tech/ai/openai…

Confirmed WSJ report that OpenAI is advancing funding round at $100b valuation (we first reported early talks in Dec) Per memo to staff, new financing will support computing power, operating expenses. OAI also planning a tender event later this year. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

I see Google News is now grouping stories together under headlines presumably written by AI. Which, in this case, got the news wrong.

the funniest part of this cover is that when @newyorker actually had an employee who pointed out the lack of diversity & representation on its own staff—with no Black editor for articles hired in ~15 yrs—instead of thanking her they put her on a retaliatory PIP & fired her…

Re-upping this. It's still not working for me.

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