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🤖 OpenAI Strikes a Deal with Reddit
PLUS: Ilya Sutskever and Jan Leike Depart OpenAI, Gen Z and Millennials Are Optimistic About AI?
James Roesser
May 17, 2024
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In today’s AI Report:
🤝OpenAI Strikes a Deal with Reddit
😱Ilya Sutskever and Jan Leike Depart OpenAI
📊Gen Z and Millennials Are Optimistic About AI?
🛠5 Trending Tools
💰Venture Capital Updates
💼Who’s Hiring?
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🗞RECENT NEWS
🤝OpenAI Strikes a Deal with Reddit
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OpenAI has officially partnered with Reddit to access the platform’s discussions from within ChatGPT and leverage user-generated content for AI model training.
Key Details:
OpenAI will gain access to Reddit’s Data Application Programming Interface (API), which “provides real-time, structured, and unique content from Reddit.”
In exchange, OpenAI will power new AI features for Reddit users and moderators.
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman explained: “Reddit has become one of the internet’s largest open archives of authentic, relevant, and always up-to-date human conversations.”
Reddit users are responsible for creating troves of valuable content without compensation, sparking backlash over Reddit’s decision to use their data commercially to train AI models.
In protest, over 7,000 subreddits are inactive, and users are deleting their posts.
Why It’s Important:
Reddit believes the company’s future lies in data licensing agreements with businesses that train AI models. Reddit can provide over 1 billion posts and 16 billion comments.
Reddit’s data is valuable because AI models “learn” to generate human-like essays, write code, and structure emails from examples. Reddit offers “real-time access to evolving and dynamic topics such as sports, movies, news, fashion, and the latest trends.”
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OPENAI
😱Ilya Sutskever and Jan Leike Depart OpenAI
Image Source: Jack Guez/AFP/Getty Images
OpenAI co-founder and chief scientist Ilya Sutskever announced he is leaving the startup to pursue personally meaningful projects.
Key Details:
Sutskever posted on X: “I’m confident that OpenAI will build AGI that’s both safe and beneficial under the leadership of Sam Altman.”
OpenAI defines Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) as “a highly autonomous system that outperforms humans at most economically valuable work.”
Sutskever managed OpenAI’s superalignment team, which focuses on weak-to-strong generalization: when a less powerful AI model (e.g., ”weak supervisor”) guides a more powerful AI model (e.g., “strong learner”) to achieve better generalization on new tasks.
The superalignment team co-leader, Jan Leike, also announced his departure in a cryptic resignation post on X.
Why It’s Important:
OpenAI has slowly been reducing the headcount of superalignment and safety teams, fueling speculation around the startup’s true motives and genuine interest in building AGI safely and responsibly.
Sutskever and Leike are two of AI’s brightest minds. Big Tech companies will try to poach their talent to fuel research that leads to more intelligent AI systems.
AI RESEARCH
📊Gen Z and Millennials Are Optimistic About AI?
Deloitte published a Global 2024 Gen Z and Millennial Survey, polling more than 22,800 respondents in 44 countries about work and the world around them.
The survey revealed cautious optimism about the impact of AI advancements on the economy and future job security.
Here Are The Five Main Takeaways:
Respondents who frequently use GenAI tools in the workplace believe it improves their work and enhances their free time.
60% of workers believe AI-driven automation will eliminate numerous jobs in the near future.
Only 51% of Gen Z and 45% of Millennials felt their employers provided sufficient AI training.
38% of Gen Z and 36% of Millennials plan to participate in GenAI training within the next 12 months.
59% of Gen Z and 57% of Millennials plan to reskill to adapt to AI’s career impacts.
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