🗞 Financial Times and OpenAI Forge an AI-Powered Alliance

🔎 The Latest on the AI Frontier:

• Financial Times Partners with OpenAI for Content Licensing and AI Development 📰

• OpenAI and Worldcoin Explore Partnership Amidst Regulatory Scrutiny 🤝

• Meta's AI Integration Leads to Spam and Confusion on Social Media Platforms 🤖

• Life2vec Death Calculator Warns of Fraudulent Copycat Apps 💀

• Oracle Enhances Generative AI Capabilities in Cloud Competition ☁️

• Former Friends Lead AI Efforts at Google and Microsoft 🤝

• Meta Faces Influx of Explicit AI Girlfriend Bot Ads 📈

• OhioHealth Adopts AI Bots to Streamline Doctor's Office Visits 🩺

📰 The Financial Times has struck a licensing deal with OpenAI to provide content for ChatGPT queries and develop new AI products. Read More

• As part of the agreement, ChatGPT users will see summaries, quotes, and links to Financial Times articles, with any information from the publication being properly attributed.

• OpenAI has made several similar deals with news organizations like Axel Springer and The Associated Press to license content for training AI models, offering between $1 million and $5 million, which is significantly less than what other companies like Apple are offering.

• However, some news organizations have taken legal action against OpenAI and Microsoft, with The New York Times, The Intercept, Raw Story, and AlterNet filing lawsuits alleging copyright infringement by ChatGPT.

🤝 OpenAI, co-founded by Sam Altman, is reportedly in partnership talks with Worldcoin, a cryptocurrency-based universal basic income and identity verification firm also co-founded by Altman. Read More

• The potential partnership would see OpenAI providing AI solutions and services to Worldcoin, which currently has an average of two million users per day, with the possibility for further synergy in the future.

• Both companies have faced regulatory scrutiny, with OpenAI recently dodging threats of an EU investigation into its partnership with Microsoft, while Worldcoin has faced bans in Portugal, Kenya, and Spain in the first three months of 2024 alone.

• Worldcoin has been expanding its operations, launching its own blockchain and increasing its WLD token supply by 36 million (worth around $196 million) over the next six months, while also facing a shortage of its "orbs" used to scan users' irises for digital identity verification.

🤖 Meta's introduction of AI across its social media platforms has led to a spam-filled user experience and confusion about the reality of content. Read More

• Meta's AI chatbot on Instagram provides bizarre and impersonal suggestions, while on Facebook, it has acted strangely by pretending to be a sentient being with a disabled child in a parents-focused group.

• User-generated AI content, such as AI-generated images, is proliferating across Meta's ecosystem, causing confusion and making it difficult for users to distinguish between real and fake content.

• Meta has pledged to label AI-generated content on its platforms, but only if it detects "industry standard AI image indicators," and the influx of AI has made the overall user experience on Facebook and Instagram less enjoyable and more confusing.

💀 Life2vec, a scarily accurate AI-powered death calculator, warns of fraudulent copycat apps that hijack personal information. Read More

• Life2vec uses ChatGPT technology to predict when people will die based on select details from an individual's life, such as income, profession, residence, and health history, with 78% accuracy.

• Opportunists are creating bootleg websites imitating Life2vec, attempting to commandeer sensitive information like email addresses, phone numbers, credit card details, and even infect devices with malware.

• Life2vec's team tested the AI's algorithm on a heterogeneous subject population of 6 million Danish people between 2008 and 2020, using hyperspecific digital tokens for each piece of data to calculate their approximate date of death.

☁️ Oracle boosts its generative AI capabilities as cloud competition heats up. Read More

• In March, Oracle announced additional generative AI features embedded across applications in finance, supply chain, human resources, sales, marketing, and service, which can perform tasks such as generating financial reports and drafting job ads, improving productivity and reducing business costs.

• Oracle's cloud revenue rose 25% year over year to $5.1 billion in the fiscal third quarter, and the company added several "large new cloud infrastructure" contracts during this period.

• Oracle is investing in AI infrastructure, building a large data center in Salt Lake City, negotiating sovereign regions with various countries, and partnering with Nvidia to deliver sovereign AI solutions to customers around the world, including an $8 billion investment in Japan over the next 10 years to grow cloud computing and AI infrastructure.

🤝 Demis Hassabis and Mustafa Suleyman, once friends from London, now lead AI efforts at Google and Microsoft respectively. Read More

• In 2010, Hassabis and Suleyman co-founded DeepMind, an AI research lab aimed at building artificial general intelligence free from economic pressures, which Google acquired for $650 million in 2014.

• After a clash at DeepMind in 2019, Suleyman left to start Inflection AI, which struggled to gain traction before Microsoft hired him and most of his employees to oversee its push into AI consumer products.

• As the AI race between Google and Microsoft intensifies, Hassabis drives the creation of Google's AI technology, while Suleyman works to put Microsoft's AI in the hands of everyday people, though Hassabis believes any talk of rivalry between them is overblown.

📈 Meta reportedly has at least 29,000 ads for explicit AI girlfriend bots published across its social media platforms. Read More

• The generative artificial intelligence chatbots engage with users, generate images and suggestive texts, and collect a lot of user data.

• Meta is reviewing the ads and removing ones that violate its policy, which prohibits ads containing shocking, sensational, excessively violent content, certain adult content, and profanity.

• OpenAI dealt with a similar problem in January when AI girlfriend chatbots flooded its new GPT store, and Apple and Google recently removed advertisements for apps that use AI to generate deepfake nudes from their app stores.

🩺 OhioHealth embraces AI bots in doctor's offices to generate clinical notes, reducing provider burnout and increasing patient focus. Read More

• OhioHealth rolled out AI software called DAX Copilot in its primary care practices earlier this year, with about 100 practitioners currently using it to record patient visits and generate draft clinical notes.

• While the AI-generated notes aren't always perfect, providers report decreased "pajama time" spent on documentation and administrative work outside of office hours, allowing them to focus more on patients during visits.

• The healthcare industry is exploring various AI applications, such as alerting providers to patients needing higher levels of care, improving patient-provider communication, and streamlining medical approval processes, though some experiments, like using AI algorithms to cut off care for seniors, have raised concerns.

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