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The original was posted on /r/singularity by /u/UpstairsAssumption6 on 2024-09-28 21:57:47+00:00.

Original Title: First step to Full Dive VR: haptic feedback simulated through Non-Invasive Magnetic Brain Stimulation - from Yudai Tanaka, Jacob Serfaty, and Pedro Lopes at the University of Chicago's Human Computer Integration Lab.

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The original was posted on /r/singularity by /u/Dorrin_Verrakai on 2024-09-28 19:19:04+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/singularity by /u/MetaKnowing on 2024-09-28 17:18:23+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/singularity by /u/UpstairsAssumption6 on 2024-09-28 16:49:59+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/singularity by /u/UpstairsAssumption6 on 2024-09-28 16:46:47+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/singularity by /u/After_Self5383 on 2024-09-28 16:32:36+00:00.

Original Title: Juicy article from WSJ on Open AI's internal conflicts. Possible explanations for why Greg Brockman went on leave (Sam told him to because he was annoying employees), Mira Murati's frustrations, why Ilya didn't return, etc.

"In addition to the other executive departures, one of Altman’s key lieutenants—Brockman—is on sabbatical.

Brockman is seen as a longtime worker loyal to OpenAI. When OpenAI was founded in 2015, it originally operated out of Brockman’s living room. Later, he got married at the company’s offices on a workday.

But as OpenAI grew, his management style caused tension. Though president, Brockman didn’t have direct reports. He tended to get involved in any projects he wanted, often frustrating those involved, according to current and former employees. They said he demanded last-minute changes to long-planned initiatives, prompting other executives, including Murati, to intervene to smooth things over.

For years, staffers urged Altman to rein in Brockman, saying his actions demoralized employees. Those concerns persisted through this year, when Altman and Brockman agreed he should take a leave of absence."

"Murati and President Greg Brockman told Sutskever that the company was in disarray and might collapse without him.

They visited his home, bringing him cards and letters from other employees urging him to return.

Altman visited him as well and expressed regret that others at OpenAI hadn’t found a solution.

Sutskever indicated to his former OpenAI colleagues that he was seriously considering coming back. But soon after, Brockman called and said OpenAI was rescinding the offer for him to return.

Internally, executives had run into trouble determining what Sutskever’s new role would be and how he would work alongside other researchers, including his successor as chief scientist. "

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The original was posted on /r/singularity by /u/MaimedUbermensch on 2024-09-28 13:57:39+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/singularity by /u/SharpCartographer831 on 2024-09-28 13:32:46+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/singularity by /u/Historical-Action-13 on 2024-09-28 12:02:53+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/singularity by /u/Gothsim10 on 2024-09-28 09:26:01+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/singularity by /u/CheekyBastard55 on 2024-09-28 04:55:10+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/singularity by /u/Arman64 on 2024-09-28 04:42:34+00:00.

I've spent the past few days using AVM, putting it through my usual tests to explore its features and limitations. Overall, it's an incredible piece of technology, but it's definitely not what was demoed months ago.

I'm comparing it primarily to other voice AIs from different companies, but especially to the standard voice chat for ChatGPT 4o. Some info: I've tested it with a range of custom instructions and without any. I haven't attempted to jailbreak it and have tried several voices as well. I'm a native English speaker with an Australian accent and can speak other languages too. I'm a doctor with an expertise in psychology/psychiatry but also an AI enthusiast. I use it with AirPods Pro 2's with voice isolation. Just to note that some of the issues I'm facing may be widely known, due to user error, standard across every AI, or fundamental limitations of the software.

Pros:

• The response time between the user and the AI is at the level of a regular human interaction.
• It has a great ability to pick up on tone and emotion based on the dialogue.
• The ability to do and modify accents is pretty cool.
• The expressiveness, rate, volume, and emotional affect in speech are big improvements over other models.
• The realism and audio quality of the voice are getting closer to sounding like a human, still in the uncanny valley but definitly a step in the right direction.
• It would definitely grab the attention of people who are not into AI who are not too impressed by AI so far.
• The pauses, laughter, breathing, and other non-dialogue features enhance the experience.
• Being able to cut it off works generally quite well.

Cons:

• It's heavily censored, nearly to the point it's unusable in certain situations. While I don't expect it to depict or discuss anything sexual, violent, or controversial, it refuses some incredibly benign requests, which is disappointing.
• In longer chats, you may get frequent interruptions stating it cannot discuss something due to guidelines, but if you say “continue,” it does. This can happen multiple times a minute, even when the topic is within guidelines.
• It's unable to swear, even when specifically asked that it can.
• It doesn't seem to challenge your views (or be happy to explore anything controvertial), doesn't like to form an opinion, and is far too agreeable to the point of sycophancy.
• It can repeat words, questions, and statements frequently within the same chat, as if it has poor recall.
• The tonal variations can fluctuate dramatically; sometimes it's consistent, but other times it's all over the place.
• The model itself is not as intelligent as ChatGPT 4o; it seems more like the level of early GPT-4 or worse at times.
• There have been rare errors that are creepy—once it screamed for no reason, another time the voice sounded very robotic, and another time it used a completely different voice (not my voice but it sounded really strange).
• You really can't stop to think when speaking, as any pause will make it start to speak.
• The daily limit is quite low, but I expect this to improve within the next month or so. The really annoying thing is that you have to wait 24 hours which makes it harder to demo to others.
• It tries to be engaging by generally asking you a question at the end of its "turn", but when it does that all the time, it can be a bit tedious.
• The lack of promised features such as multimodal image/video analysis and the ability to sing is a bummer.
• When speaking in different languages, it can sometimes switch languages without being told to—same with accents and tones.
• I've noticed it tends to misunderstand words and hallucinate more often than the standard voice mode. Sometimes it agrees to do a request but ignores it completely or addresses it only briefly.
• It does not recognise emotions based on your tone, just from the context of the words.
• The replies seem to be quite brief and can appear superficial.

Overall, while AVM shows a lot of promise and has some impressive features, there are significant areas that need improvement.

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The original was posted on /r/singularity by /u/Wiskkey on 2024-09-28 04:26:15+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/singularity by /u/onil_gova on 2024-09-28 05:19:54+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/singularity by /u/MBlaizze on 2024-09-28 05:18:46+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/singularity by /u/obvithrowaway34434 on 2024-09-28 03:02:41+00:00.

Link to the website that shows how the predictions about this have varied over the years"

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The original was posted on /r/singularity by /u/Tidorith on 2024-09-28 00:07:08+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/singularity by /u/katxwoods on 2024-09-27 14:47:55+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/singularity by /u/RainbowCrown71 on 2024-09-27 22:38:23+00:00.

An interesting article just published by New York Times.

Most importantly: “OpenAI’s monthly revenue hit $300 million in August, up 1,700 percent since the beginning of 2023, and the company expects about $3.7 billion in annual sales this year, according to financial documents reviewed by The New York Times. OpenAI estimates that its revenue will balloon to $11.6 billion next year.

But it expects to lose roughly $5 billion this year after paying for costs related to running its services and other expenses like employee salaries and office rent, according to an analysis by a financial professional who has also reviewed the documents. Those numbers do not include paying out equity-based compensation to employees, among several large expenses not fully explained in the documents.”

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The original was posted on /r/singularity by /u/MassiveWasabi on 2024-09-27 22:03:12+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/singularity by /u/Gothsim10 on 2024-09-27 21:31:58+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/singularity by /u/Gothsim10 on 2024-09-27 21:28:19+00:00.

Original Title: Jensen Huang says nuclear energy will be a "vital, integral" part of powering AI and he hopes that we consume more energy in the future because we can now compress energy into intelligence, leading to improvements in quality of life and prosperity

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The original was posted on /r/singularity by /u/enspiralart on 2024-09-27 19:03:03+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/singularity by /u/Gothsim10 on 2024-09-27 20:21:21+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/singularity by /u/Anen-o-me on 2024-09-27 18:03:03+00:00.