The US military is getting artificial intelligence from Openai

OpenAI: Hiring New Artificial Intelligence Experts from Google DeepMind, Safe Superintelligence, and Murati, a Tribute to Sam Beyer

Zhai, Beyer, and Kolesnikov all live in Zurich, according to LinkedIn, which has become a relatively prominent tech hub in Europe. The city has a public research university with a renowned computer science department. The Financial Times reported earlier this year that Apple has been recruiting a number of artificial intelligence experts from Google to work in its European laboratory.

OpenAI announced today it has hired three senior computer vision and machine learning engineers from rival Google DeepMind, all of whom will work in a newly opened OpenAI office in Zurich, Switzerland. OpenAI executives told staff in an internal memo on Tuesday that four new employees are joining the company to work on artificial intelligence models capable of performing tasks in a variety of media.

Over the past few months a number of key figures at OpenAI have left the company to join competitors like DeepMind or launch their own ventures. Ilya Sutskever, an OpenAI cofounder and its former chief scientist, left to launch Safe Superintelligence, a startup focused on AI safety and existential risks. Mira Murati is leaving OpenAI in September to found a new artificial intelligence company.

As they race to create the most advanced models of artificial intelligence, OpenAI and other players are trying to hire a limited pool of top Researchers from around the world, with compensation packages worth seven figures or more. Hopping between companies is not uncommon for the most sought-after talent.

All three of the newly hired researchers already work closely together, according to Beyer’s personal website. While he worked at DeepMind, Beyer appears to have kept a close eye on the research that OpenAI was publishing and public controversies the company was embroiled in, which he frequently posted about to his more than 70,000 followers on X. When CEO Sam Altman was briefly ousted from OpenAI by its board of directors last year, Beyer posted that “the most sensible” explanation for the firing he had read so far was that Altman was involved in too many other startups at the same time.

The first version of OpenAI’s text-to-image platform will be released in 2021. Its flagship chatbot ChatGPT, however, was initially only capable of interacting with text inputs. The company later added voice and image features as multimodal functionality became an increasingly important part of its product line and AI research. The newest version of lark-e is located within chatg pt. OpenAI has also developed a highly anticipated generative AI video product called Sora, though it has yet to make it widely available.

OpenAI, maker of ChatGPT and one of the most prominent artificial intelligence companies in the world, said today that it has entered a partnership with Anduril, a defense startup that makes missiles, drones, and software for the United States military. It marks the latest in a series of similar announcements made recently by major tech companies in Silicon Valley, which has warmed to forming closer ties with the defense industry.

Openai will use its technology to assess drones threats more quickly and accurately, which will allow operators to make better decisions while staying out of harm’s way, according to a former employee who left the company.

Openai changed its policy on the use of artificial intelligence in military applications. The source who was at the company at the time said some staff were unhappy with the change but there were no open protests. The US military uses some OpenAI technology, according to a report.

Anduril is developing an advanced air defense system featuring a swarm of small, autonomous aircraft that work together on missions. These aircraft are controlled through an interface that interprets natural language commands, and then puts them into instructions for both pilots and drones that they can understand. Until now, Anduril has been using open source language models for testing purposes.

Anduril is not currently known to be using advanced AI to control its autonomous systems or to allow them to make their own decisions. unpredictability of the models is what would make such a move riskier.