Welcome Decoder! I’m Hayden Field, AI’s senior reporter at Edge and host of Thursday’s episode. I’m filling in for Nilay while he’s still on parental leave, and I’m looking forward to continuing to delve into the good, the bad, and the questionable in the AI industry.
This was a very huge week in AI, and a lot of it had to do with OpenAI. The company hosted its annual DevDay in San Francisco on Monday, and I’m still personally here to share all the news. A number of ChatGPT product features and up-to-date agent tools were announced, and executives also presented a rather bold vision for the future of artificial intelligence.
At the same time, the up-to-date Sora app for iOS has pushed AI-generated video into the mainstream, causing all sorts of unintended consequences and even surprising OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, who has become the face of Sora memes on the Internet.
And earlier this week New York Times published great story about how AI-powered job screening has become so commonplace that candidates are starting to sneak hidden messages into chatbots on their resumes, effectively trying to quickly implement an automated job screening process to raise their chances of getting an interview.
I enlisted Kanjun Qiu, CEO of AI startup Imbue and a close observer of the industry, to facilitate me figure it all out. Kanjun is both a founder and a tech investor, and her perspective on AI and the broader tech industry is very unique. He believes the biggest question hanging over the AI industry today is whether it will resemble the more open, user-centric vision of the early Internet, or a closed, walled garden approach to social networking.
So I wanted to talk to Kanjun about the biggest AI stories of the week to understand what’s really happening, why it’s happening, and what the societal consequences are.
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