Sam Altman Offers $555K Salary To Fill Most Daunting Role In AI
BeauHD / slashdot - OpenAI is offering a $555,000 salary (plus equity) to recruit a new "head of preparedness," a high-pressure role tasked with anticipating and mitigating extreme AI risks. "This will be a stressful job, and you'll jump into the deep end pretty much immedia…
Editor: I'm not sure $555K is actually a competitive base if you have to live in the Bay Area. And - I wonder what valuation the equity component of comp is based on - you need to really believe in the upside here.
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Meta Platforms buys Manus to bolster its agentic AI skillset
Mike Wheatley / siliconangle - Meta Platforms Inc. is pushing into autonomous artificial intelligence agents with the acquisition of Singapore-based Manus, which made headlines when it first emerged earlier this year for its ability to perform tasks using a web browser without human su…
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The amount of AI slop and brainrot videos on YouTube is shocking
digitaltrends - A Kapwing study reveals how AI slop has become a global presence on YouTube, with billions of views and growing influence across multiple markets.The post The amount of AI slop and brainrot videos on YouTube is shocking appeared first on Digital Trends.
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UK Accounting Body To Halt Remote Exams Amid AI Cheating
msmash / slashdot - The world's largest accounting body is to stop students being allowed to take exams remotely to crack down on a rise in cheating on tests that underpin professional qualifications. From a report: The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), …
Editor: Is it AI cheating, or AI productivity boosting? Accounting is about the application of rules and judgment en masse - it strikes me that the exams need to test student's ability to validate their sources (is the model's output factually correct?) and apply their own judgment - or validate the model's work. I wonder how much of the problem here is poor test design methodology.
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Nvidia's $20 billion Groq IP deal bolsters AI market domination — hardware stack and key engineer behind Google TPUs included in bombshell agreement
tomshardware - Nvidia has announced a $20 billion deal to acquire Groq’s intellectual property, though not the company itself, and absorb key members of its engineering team.
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China outlines rules to regulate human-like AI companion apps
Mike Wheatley / siliconangle - China’s internet regulator issued new draft rules on Saturday that aim to regulate the use of artificial intelligence “companions,” which are defined as systems that interact with humans and display “human-like traits and behavior.” The new rules, called …
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