OpenAI has quietly hired hundreds of international contractors to help train its AI tech, according to Semafor. Some are teaching software engineering to AI, potentially paving the way to replace some human coders. OpenAI's chatbot, ChatGPT, already threatens to disrupt many industries just a few months after its launch. OpenAI has quietly hired hundreds of international contractors to train its artificial intelligence in software engineering, according to a report from Semafor. Some contractors, hired in the last 6 months from places like Latin America and Eastern Europe, have reportedly been tasked with creating data to coach AI to learn simple software engineering tasks.

STOCKHOLM, Sweden – Nvidia Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang on Tuesday, January 24, said that the burgeoning field of artificial intelligence (AI) will create powerful tools that require legal regulation and social norms that have yet to be worked out. Huang is one of the most prominent figures in artificial intelligence because Nvidia's chips are widely used in the field, including in a supercomputer that Microsoft Corp built for startup OpenAI, in which Microsoft said Monday it was making a multibillion-dollar investment. Huang was speaking at an event in Stockholm, where officials said Tuesday they were upgrading Sweden's fastest supercomputer using tools from Nvidia to, among other things, develop what is known as a large language model that will be fluent in Swedish. "Remember, if you take a step back and think about all of the things in life that are either convenient, enabling or wonderful for society, it also has probably some potential harm," Huang said. Lawmakers such as Ted Lieu, a Democratic from California in the U.S. House of Representatives, have called for the creation of a US federal agency that would regulate AI. In an opinion piece in the New York Times on Monday, Lieu argued that systems such as facial recognition used by law enforcement agencies possibly can misidentify innocent people from minority groups.

AI crypto tokens could be the next big thing in the industry, reminiscent of the DeFi boom, Metaverse mania, or meme-coin explosion, according to a top financial analyst. ChatGPT and other AI-driven technologies have been trending all across social media and the business world. Could this make three altcoins stand-out winners in the next bull market? Narratives are often necessary for incredible rallies or declines, whether they are accurate or not. For example, the last Bitcoin narrative was driven by its use as an inflation hedge.

Created by OpenAI, ChatGPT has become quite a trend these days. While users are enjoying using the platform, the AI tool is giving sleepless nights to tech giants like Google and Microsoft, and also humans. It is considered as a threat to some human jobs. Firstly, what is this AI tool? ChatGPT is an AI chatbot that has been trained with data sets that help it to give correct and unique answers in real-time.

This is how ChatGPT works. You go to your device, you sign up, it prompts you to ask any question in the world, and you do so. Because what spits back, instantly, is the answer to almost anything, in clear, basic language that sounds like someone is talking to you. Which is kind of the idea. ChatGPT is the latest darling from the world of AI, which, depending on your level of fear, stands for artificial intelligence, allegedly innocent, or alien invasion.

Artificial intelligence first came to light in the mid-1950s as a promising new academic discipline. AI became one of the most exciting areas in computer sciences over the next two decades. But, after years of unfulfilled promises and hype, a couple of so called AI winters of reduced interest and funding set in that nearly killed the field. AI was successfully reborn in the 1990s with a new statistical paradigm based on analyzing large amounts of data with powerful computers and sophisticated algorithms. Now, six decades after the field was founded, AI seems to be finally coming of age.

OpenAI, the company behind the chatbot ChatGPT, has ramped up its hiring around the world, bringing on roughly 1,000 remote contractors over the past six months in regions like Latin America and Eastern Europe, according to people familiar with the matter. About 60% of the contractors were hired to do what's called "data labeling" -- creating massive sets of images, audio clips, and other information that can then be used to train artificial intelligence tools or autonomous vehicles. The other 40% are computer programmers who are creating data for OpenAI's models to learn software engineering tasks. OpenAI's existing Codex product, launched in Aug. 2021, is designed to translate natural language into code. "A well-established company, which is determined to provide world-class AI technology to make the world a better and more efficient place, is looking for a Python Developer," reads one OpenAI job listing in Spanish, which was posted by an outsourcing agency.

ChatGPT, the state-of-the-art language model developed by OpenAI, is poised to have a significant impact on the B2B industry. This powerful technology has the potential to disrupt traditional business processes and open up new opportunities for companies across a wide range of industries when it comes to intelligent document processing. One of the key areas where ChatGPT is likely to have an impact is in automating routine tasks and customer interactions. Another area where ChatGPT is likely to be disruptive is in the generation of written content. This technology can be used to quickly and accurately generate reports, product descriptions, and other written materials.

OpenAI's chatbot, ChatGPT, debuted in November and has quickly become a viral sensation. And having seen its capabilities -- producing cogent and creative writing based on user prompts -- everyone from venture capital luminaries to my buddies at the bar seem to be saying the same thing: this is about to put knowledge workers like me out of a job. After all, Microsoft announced a multiyear, multi-billion dollar investment in OpenAI this week. So for this week's newsletter, I put the A.I. tool to the test. Keep in mind, ChatGPT warns you off the bat that it "may occasionally generate incorrect information" and "may produce harmful instructions or biased content."

In the last few months, a new AI called ChatGPT has emerged and is already upending education at all levels. How will ChatGPT impact Jewish education and Jewish learning? Identity/Crisis guest host David Zvi Kalman, Director of New Media and Scholar in Residence speaks with Sara Wolkenfeld, Rabbinic Fellow of the David Hartman Center and Chief Learning Officer at Sefaria about what these technologies mean for Jewish learning, how we think about the sacredness of texts, and where we go from here. Identity/Crisis is a weekly podcast from the Shalom Hartman Institute about news and ideas. Subscribe to Identity/Crisis on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you receive your podcasts.