*sight* If solely the billionaires of the world would allocate their cash to extra productive causes than petty spite and revenge.
As we speak, The Verge has reported that OpenAI is seeking to construct its personal social media app, which might be targeted on photographs created by way of its numerous picture era instruments.
As per The Verge:
“Whereas the venture 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 venture, 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 turned the most downloaded app globally final month.”
The inspiration for this, in fact, is X, which now powers xAI’s Grok AI chatbot, and its different AI initiatives, by feeding by way of real-time information 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 wish to limit OpenAI’s entry to their content material, which can make it more durable for the corporate to maintain its AI responses related. Primarily, AI initiatives want large quantities of knowledge, ideally flowing into their circuits in a gentle stream, and OpenAI, at this stage, doesn’t have wherever close to the continuing information 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 venture. However from the get-go, Musk and Altman didn’t see eye-to-eye. Musk, reportedly, pushed to take extra possession of the venture, by nominating himself as CEO, a proposal which was rebuffed by the OpenAI board. In response, Musk withdrew his funding, then left the venture totally, labeling it “doomed” for refusing his expanded help.
Since then, in fact, OpenAI has risen from not-for-profit experiment to a fully-fledged AI enterprise. And evidently, that success irks Elon day by day.
Musk created his personal AI venture, xAI, seemingly out of spite for the OpenAI staff, vowing to construct a greater, “non woke”, AI system, which might be “maximally truth-seeking.” Musk has additionally launched authorized motion towards Open AI (and first investor Microsoft) for stealing Twitter/X information, and in addition for basically stealing his cash, by changing the venture 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 comfortable 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 essentially the most dominant, there was probably some reality to Altman’s supply, given the worth {that a} social community would have for the AI venture.
Which, once more, is why OpenAI is contemplating its personal social community, although gaining any vital traction with such would seemingly be troublesome. Although as The Verge notes, ChatGPT is presently essentially the most downloaded app on this planet, and perhaps, by piggy-backing a sharing possibility on high of that, OpenAI may produce a viable social community, a minimum of with regard to sharing prompts and visible outputs.
It might be one thing, or it may simply be one other footnote within the broader Elon versus OpenAI story.
Both approach, it’s one other attention-grabbing reminder of the worth that information performs within the new AI panorama.
