Author: KnowledgeHippo
When Elon Musk sued OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, for breach of contract on Thursday, he turned the claims of the start-up’s closest partner, Microsoft, into a weapon.He repeatedly cited a controversial but highly influential paper written by researchers and top Microsoft executives about the power of GPT-4, the revolutionary OpenAI artificial intelligence system released last March.In the “Sparks of AGI” paper, Microsoft’s research lab said that — although it didn’t understand how — GPT-4 had shown “sparks” of “artificial general intelligence,” or AGI, a machine that can do everything in the human brain . can.It was a bold…
The two largest drugstore chains in the United States will begin distributing the abortion pill mifepristone this month, a step that could make access easier for some patients.CVS and Walgreens officials said in interviews Friday that they had received certification to dispense mifepristone under guidelines issued by the Food and Drug Administration last year. The chains plan to initially make the drug available in stores in a few states. They will not provide the drug by mail.Both chains said they would gradually expand to all other states where abortion was legal and where pharmacies were legally able to dispense abortion…
In the spring of 2020, at the height of the pandemic, the ever-bustling Dam Square in Amsterdam was deserted, silent and surrounded by concrete anti-terror blocks. Dutch street artist Frank de Ruwe, who goes by the name Frankey, decided that these scary square blocks looked like something more innocent – giant Lego blocks – and that the city needed something to lighten the gloom.The result? Later that summer, Frankey created and installed a giant yellow-and-black Lego figure of Dutch folk singer André Hazes, whose songs have been pub favorites in Holland for more than 40 years.”It’s all about seeing the…
The United States carried out its first airdrop of humanitarian aid into Gaza on Saturday in cooperation with Jordan, as the Biden administration tries to prevent a bigger humanitarian disaster amid frustration with Israel.US aircraft carried out the airstrike along with the Jordanian Air Force, the US Central Command said in a statement on Saturday.The airdrops contribute “to the ongoing efforts of the US government to provide life-saving humanitarian assistance to the people of Gaza,” the statement said. “We are conducting planning for possible follow-up air assistance missions.”Three US Air Force cargo planes dropped 66 pallets over southwestern Gaza, a…
Depending on who you ask, the University of Idaho’s plan to take over the University of Phoenix, a for-profit online school, is either a sweet deal or a potential disaster.C. Scott Green, president of the University of Idaho, said he viewed the deal with a $550 million price tag as a hedge against what is known as the “demographic cliff,” an expected decline in the number of college-age students.But critics of the university’s plan, including U.S. senators like Elizabeth Warren, nonprofits and a union, have questioned why the state’s top public university would partner with the University of Phoenix, known…
When Shawn Fain, the president of the United Automobile Workers, revealed the deal which ended six weeks of strikes at Ford Motor in the fall, framed it as part of a larger campaign. Next, he declared, would be the task of organizing non-union factories throughout the country.”One of our biggest goals coming out of this historic contract win is to organize like we’ve never organized before,” he said at the time. “When we return to the negotiating table in 2028, it will not be just with the Big Three. It will be the Big Five or the Big Six.”Four months…
It would be easy to dismiss Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI as a case of sour grapes.Mr. Musk sued OpenAI this week, accusing the company of breaching the terms of its founding agreement and violating its founding principles. As he said, OpenAI was established as a non-profit organization that would build powerful artificial intelligence systems for the good of humanity and provide its research for free to the public. But Mr. Musk argues that OpenAI broke that promise by establishing a for-profit subsidiary that took billions of dollars in investment from Microsoft.An OpenAI spokeswoman declined to comment on the lawsuit.…
The study found that alcohol-related deaths in the United States increased by 40,000 over five years. The toll is huge: About 178,000 people died in 2021 from drinking too much, compared to 138,000 in 2016. During that time, deaths rose 27 percent among men and 35 percent among women.Dr. Siegel attributed the increase possibly to people’s high stress levels during the pandemic, along with increased home delivery services offered by the beverage industry. “Anytime you make something easier to get, you see an increase in usage in response,” he said.What’s missing: Data is limited.The researchers concluded that their estimates of…
Boeing said on Friday it was in talks to acquire Spirit AeroSystems, a struggling supplier the maker spun off nearly two decades ago that makes the fuselages of the 737 Max jet.By reabsorbing Spirit, Boeing will seek to rescue and restructure a troubled but important partner that has been plagued by years of losses and quality control problems. Spirit’s problems have also at times limited how quickly Boeing can produce Max planes, its most popular commercial jet.Bringing back Spirit, one of the company’s key suppliers, would be a major strategic shift for Boeing, which has long relied on outsourcing to…
Ali Hassan Mwinyi, a teacher-turned-politician who led Tanzania as its second president after independence and helped dismantle the dogmatic socialism of his predecessor, Julius K. Nyerere, died on Thursday in Dar es Salaam, its former capital country. It was 98.The current president of Tanzania, Samia Suluhu Hassan, announced the death, in hospital, on X, formerly known as Twitter. He said Mr Mwinyi had been treated for lung cancer.Mr Mwinyi was 60 when he assumed the presidency in 1985 as the hand-picked successor to Mr Nyerere, who had volunteered to step down after ruling his country since its independent nationhood as…