Now that the AI clickworker startup Invisible Technologies is wildly successful, its founder is buying out his VCs – and is borrowing against the company to do so. By Iain MartinForbes Staff In early 2020, Francis Pedraza was staring squarely at failure. For more than four years, the Cornell grad had been trying to combine […]
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OpenAI says it has cut off API access to an engineer whose video of a motorized sentry gun controlled by ChatGPT-powered commands has set off a viral firestorm of concerns about AI-powered weapons. An engineer going by the handle sts_3d started posting videos of a motorized, auto-rotating swivel chair project in August. By November, that […]
Using a series of prompts six days before he died by suicide outside the main entrance of the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas, Matthew Livelsberger, a highly decorated US Army Green Beret from Colorado, consulted with an artificial intelligence on the best ways to turn a rented Cybertruck into a four-ton vehicle-borne explosive. According […]
This is 1/10 AI predictions for 2025. AGI and the Singularity have been hot topics in AI, sparking both fear and excitement. Sam Altman even recently predicted AGI would arrive in 2025, and Elon Musk 2026. Bold are more about hype than reality. In 2025, there will be no AGI but Large Language Models will […]
2024 was another year defined by generative AI, with software features put into the hands of millions of people worldwide and unavoidably built into popular services, like Google Search. While some AI tools, like ChatGPT’s Advanced Voice Mode and Google’s NotebookLM, were delightful to interact with, the prevailing narrative remained on the technology’s inherent flaws, […]
OpenAI has finally shared details about its plans to shake up its core business by shifting to a for-profit corporate structure. On Thursday, OpenAI posted on its blogconfirming that in 2025, the existing for-profit arm will be transformed into a Delaware-based public benefit corporation (PBC). As a PBC, OpenAI would be required to balance its […]
It’s that time of year. As Future Perfect has in the past, we’re rounding up our most read stories of the year. This little trip down memory lane can give us a sense of the breadth and depth of Future Perfect’s coverage — and a sense of what stories and subjects you, the audience, are […]
On Friday, during Day 12 of its “12 days of OpenAI,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced its latest AI “reasoning” models, o3 and o3-mini, which build upon the o1 models launched earlier this year. The company is not releasing them yet but will make these models available for public safety testing and research access today. […]
Over the past 12 business days, OpenAI has announced a new product or demoed an AI feature every weekday, calling the PR event “12 days of OpenAI.” We’ve covered some of the major announcements, but we thought a look at each announcement might be useful for people seeking a comprehensive look at each day’s developments. […]
