OpenAI today announced that it has reached an agreement to bring back Sam Altman as CEO and appoint new board members after nearly all of its employees threatened to quit over his surprise sacking. Minutes after Sam Altman announced his decision to return as OpenAI CEO, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said they have discussed the matter and agreed that this is 'a first essential step' to build a 'more stable, well-informed, and effective governance' in OpenAI. Altman had shot to fame with the launch of ChatGPT last year, which ignited a race to advance AI research and development.
OpenAI's chatbot has upended teaching, writing, technology, and many other sectors since its arrival in November. This week, Meta announced the launch of Llama 2, a huge new AI model, through a partnership with Microsoft. Early impressions suggest Llama 2 stacks up pretty evenly against ChatGPT. OpenAI may need to come to terms with that before Llama 3 is released.
Microsoft and Nuance are planning to roll out a version of their Dragon Ambient eXperience (DAX) app that is fully automated and incorporates GPT-4. The software promises to generate notes in seconds but accuracy, liability and even issues like how the note gets formatted may make some doctors hesitate. The software giant is hoping the fully automated version will scale much faster than the previous version. But the real question for success is: will doctors cede control to imperfect machines to get a few minutes of their lives back?