OpenAI CEO Sam Altman fired, CTO Mira Murati named interim CEO

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On Friday, OpenAI’s board of directors announced a surprise shakeup of its top leadership. CEO Sam Altman was fired and will leave the company and the board immediately. Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati will take over as interim CEO.

The board said that Altman’s dismissal was the result of an internal review process that found he had not been honest and transparent in his communications with the board, compromising its ability to oversee the company. Therefore, the board lost trust in his leadership and let him go.

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Boston Dynamics tests ChatGPT on its robot dog Spot

Boston Dynamics has added ChatGPT to its robot dog Spot, which may make it creepier to some of you now. The integration gives Spot programmable personalities and a fake mouth that moves, which, um, yeah, it's kinda yikes.

This is just an experiment for now, but it has potential. Some companies like National Grid, BP, and the NYPD already use Spot. ChatGPT could make it more useful or again creepy, depending on your view.

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Microsoft's Bing Chat AI starts rolling out to all users

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After the Bing Chat AI sidebar showed up, it looks like Microsoft is ready to offer its ChatGPT-powered Bing Chat AI to anyone who wants to use it. It's still listed as "join the waiting list" on the signup page, but when you sign up, it looks like you get instant access. I got access to the feature a few weeks back. 

Microsoft hasn't confirmed this change, but it is holding an event today on "Reinventing productivity with AI." The focus might be more on its tools for the Microsoft 365 suite, but there might be new changes to Bing. Microsoft confirmed recently that the new Bing runs on the GPT-4 engine for the last few weeks, well before OpenAI unveiled it. 

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Slack has a ChatGPT app, too

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Slack is the latest app to integrate ChatGPT into its tech. OpenAI built a ChatGPT app using Slack's development tools. And it's now available in beta. The app can draft messages and summarize conversations and threads. If you have the app installed, you can click on a thread's menu button and select the "summarize thread" or "draft reply" option. The app can then create a summary or response that only you can see. You can then choose to share what's done.

According to Slack, you can use AI to deliver answers and insights on any project or topic chatbot-style. It suggests you can use the feature to look up best practices or research a potential customer. Slack noted that OpenAI won't use the data the ChatGPT app can access to train its language models.

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