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What's next for OpenAI with Sam Altman back in charge

Despite chaos, OpenAI won’t collapse anytime soon, but its future still carries big questions.

The turmoil at OpenAI will calm down as a new three-man board takes over. But Altman isn't on that board — and Quora CEO Adam D'Angelo, part of the old board majority that fired Altman, is.

The new board could move rapidly to expand its roster, including with representatives of Microsoft. That means ultimate authority over OpenAI's fate now rests with three

• D'Angelo; new board chair

• Bret Taylor, former co-CEO of Salesforce

• Former Treasury Secretary, Lawrence Summers.

There will be no pause in AI research and deployment: But OpenAI's near-implosion could reinforce efforts in Washington and abroad to regulate the AI industry more quickly.

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Bard’s YouTube update sees exciting video enhancements

Bard, Google’s AI chatbot, sees a YouTube extension update: Bard’s YouTube extension can now handle complex queries about specific video content, like recipe quantities and instruction summaries.

Development is still required: At the moment, this feature only exists as an opt-in Labs experience, and it takes a little work to get to the answer you’re looking for. When I asked for the “full recipe” from the video, Bard wasn’t able to generate anything. But asking for “step by step instructions” on a subsequent prompt got me the whole recipe.

These frictions means YouTube remains unthreatened - for now: But it’s not hard to imagine a future where this tool exists right inside of YouTube, and at that point, there’s a different conversation to be had about how the value of Bard scraping the content of a video can benefit creators — right now, the only clear benefit is to Google.

iPhone’s new AI action button is smarter than Siri

iPhone’s new action button replaces Siri: Apple’s latest smartphones support the ability to configure the new Action Button, which replaces the Mute button that has been on the iPhone since its debut.

What does it do? Depending on your personal preferences, you can associate the Action Button with any number of tasks — it can open the Camera, turn on the Flashlight, record a Voice Memo, open the Magnifier app, allow you to quickly use an Accessibility feature or run an app Shortcut.

How can I activate the feature? You’ll need to scroll down to the “Action Button” menu in the iOS Setting screen, then swipe over to the “Shortcut” option near the end. You’ll then tap on the blue button “Choose a Shortcut” and scroll down through the alphabetized list of supported apps to tap on “ChatGPT.” On the next screen, you simply tap the existing Shortcut “Start voice conversation” to associate this particular action with the button.

Art history and AI

Why AI makes all the difference after years of little technological change: For decades, conventionally trained art scholars have been slow to take up computational analysis, dismissing it as too limited and simplistic. Now, however, algorithms are advancing fast, and dozens of studies are now proving the power of AI to shed new light on fine-art paintings and drawings.

How will AI help? For example, by analysing brush strokes, colour and style, AI-driven tools are revealing how artists’ understanding of the science of optics has helped them to convey light and perspective. Programs are recovering the appearance of lost or hidden artworks and even computing the ‘meanings’ of some paintings, by identifying symbols.

What does art history predict for AI? Scholars anticipate that much recorded information about artworks will one day be available for computation — ultra-high-resolution images of every major artwork (and innumerable lesser ones), images taken using the extended electromagnetic spectrum (X-ray, ultraviolet, infrared), chemical and physical measurements of pigments, every word written and lecture video recorded about art in every language.

How companies are strategizing with AI

AI for AI’s sake: “Over the last, I’d say, eight months, in particular with generative AI, some people just want to go do AI for AI sake,” said Alex Singla, a senior partner at McKinsey and co-leader of QuantumBlack, the firm’s AI arm.

Companies need to drive the cause with strategy: Sesh Iyer, a managing director and senior partner at BCG, said he’s been in more than 100 discussions with CEOs and their direct reports about generative AI. Conversations have included how it differs from predictive AI—”the meaning of a large language model, and unpacking that for them”—because at the end of the day “they do want to understand the underlying technology.”

America needs more comfort surrounding AI: A new Pew Research Center survey finds that Americans are increasingly cautious about the growing role of AI. Fifty-two percent of Americans are more concerned than excited about AI in daily life, compared with just 10% who say they are more excited than concerned; 36% feel a mix of excitement and concern.

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