| Here’s a look at today's AI briefing: - OpenAI forms new safety committee.
- OpenAI is training its next frontier model.
- Survey finds ChatGPT most recognized and used generative AI tool.
- New AI tools coming to Chromebook Plus laptops.
- Who's hiring in AI.
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| 1 | | OpenAI has formed a new Safety and Security Committee led by CEO Sam Altman and other board members Bret Taylor, Adam D’Angelo, and Nicole Seligman. The committee also includes OpenAI security chief Matt Knight, head of preparedness Aleksander Mądry, chief scientist Jakub Pachocki, co-founder John Schulman, and head of safety systems Lilian Weng. More: - The committee's first task is to review and improve the company's "processes and safeguards" within 90 days.
- After the 90 days, members will present their recommendations to the entire board.
- OpenAI said it will publicly announce adopted recommendations after the full board's review.
- It plans to engage with external safety and security experts, including former cybersecurity official Rob Joyce and former senior DOJ official John Carlin.
Zoom out: - Recently, OpenAI disbanded its "superalignment" team for managing long-term AI risks and making sure AI is aligned with its objectives.
- The move came after the team's leaders, OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever and executive Jan Leike, announced their departures.
- In a post on X, Leike wrote that OpenAI's “safety culture and processes have taken a backseat to shiny products.”
- Today Leike announced that he has since joined competitor Anthropic, where he will "continue the superalignment mission."
- Leike said his new team "will work on scalable oversight, weak-to-strong generalization, and automated alignment research."
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| 2 | | OpenAI said it recently started training its latest flagship AI model. The likely successor to GPT-4 will bring OpenAI to “the next level of capabilities” as it works to develop artificial general intelligence or AGI, the company wrote in a blog post. More: - AGI refers to "a theoretical AI system with capabilities that rival those of a human."
- The company didn't disclose the name of its next frontier model.
- OpenAI said it's proud to have "industry-leading" AI models in capability in safety but welcomes "a robust debate" on the new model.
- Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott recently hinted that OpenAI's upcoming model would be much larger than GPT-4, likening it to a whale compared to GPT-4's Orca.
Zoom out: - OpenAI released GPT-4o, its latest AI model with text, vision, and audio capabilities, in mid-May.
- A source told Business Insider that OpenAI could potentially release GPT-5 around mid-year, possibly in the summer, though that hasn't been confirmed.
- In March, CEO Sam Altman said OpenAI will "release an amazing new model this year," though it's unclear if that was GPT-4o.
- "I think before we talk about a GPT-5-like model, we have a lot of other important things to release first," he said.
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| 3 | | ChatGPT is the most recognized and used generative AI tool in six surveyed countries, according to a YouGov survey for the Reuters Institute at Oxford University. Even so, around 20% to 30% of the online population in the countries is still unfamiliar with the most popular AI tools, according to the poll. 
What happened: The report, based on a YouGov survey for the Reuters Institute at Oxford, explores public usage and opinions on generative AI in journalism and other fields. Data was gathered online from March 28 to April 30 across six countries: Argentina, Denmark, France, Japan, the U.K., and the U.S. What the numbers show: About half of the online population in the six countries is aware of ChatGPT. OpenAI's chatbot is also the most widely used GenAI tool across countries, surpassing Google's Gemini and Microsoft Copilot. However, frequent usage of ChatGPT remains low, with daily use ranging from 1% in Japan to 7% in the U.S. Young adults are more likely to use it regularly. Across the six countries, 56% of 18-to-24 year-olds have used ChatGPT at least once, versus 16% of those 55 and older. Zoom out: Richard Fletcher, the lead author of the report, highlighted a "mismatch" between AI hype and public interest to the BBC. Many people are still indifferent to generative AI, he noted, with 30% in the U.K. unaware of major products like ChatGPT. | | | |
| 4 | | Google announced that all current and future Chromebook Plus laptops will get new AI features, including access to its Gemini chatbot. Chromebook Plus laptops feature higher-end hardware compared to standard Chromebooks. More: - Google is adding a Gemini icon to the Chromebook Plus home screen app shelf.
- AI features coming to the laptops include a "Help me write" tool, AI-based wallpaper and video backgrounds, and Magic Editor in Google Photos.
- Additionally, Google is offering new Chromebook Plus owners 12 months of access to the Google One AI Premium plan.
- The plan, normally $20 a month, includes Gemini Advanced, Gemini access for Google Docs and other apps, and 2TB of storage.
Zoom out: - Google said it will roll out more features, like "Project Gameface" for AI face and gesture tracking and Gemini's "Help me read" for summarizing files, to Chromebook Plus devices this year.
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 | AI and technology writer | | Beth is a contributing editor and writer of Inside's AI and Tech newsletters. She has written for publications including USA Today, the Arizona Business Gazette, and The Arizona Republic, where she received recognition with a Pulitzer Prize nomination and a First Amendment Award for collaborative reporting on state pension cost increases. You can reach her at Beth.Duckett@yahoo.com. | | This newsletter was edited by Beth Duckett | |
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