Pose your questions ahead of our May 8 livestream about the trial that could determine the fate of OpenAI. Two of Big Tech's most influential billionaires, Sam Altman and Elon Musk, will go head-to-head in a highly anticipated trial beginning April 27. In Musk v. Altman a judge, advised by a jury, will ultimately determine whether OpenAI has strayed from its founding mission to ensure that artificial general intelligence (AGI) benefits humanity, and the ruling could influence how the world's leading AI developer controls and distributes its technology. For now, you can learn more about the trial here . On May 8, a panel of WIRED experts will go live to answer your questions about this consequential case.

For more than two years, every new AI announcement has lived in the shadow of ChatGPT. No model from any company has eclipsed or matched that initial fever. But perhaps the closest any firm has come to replicating the buzz was this past February, when OpenAI first teased its video-generating AI model, Sora. Tantalizing clips--woolly mammoths kicking up clouds of snow, Pixar-esque animations of adorable fluffy critters--promised a stunning future, one in which anyone can whip up high-quality clips by typing simple text prompts into a computer program. But Sora, which was not immediately available to the public, remained just that: a teaser.

Elon Musk is suing OpenAI and its chief executive Sam Altman, alleging the start-up betrayed its original promise of working to benefit humanity when it forged a multibillion-dollar alliance with Microsoft. The lawsuit filed in San Francisco on Thursday said Altman and OpenAI's co-founder Greg Brockman had initially pledged to make an open-source, non-profit company, and that its pursuit of profit constituted a breach of contract. The company had kept the design of GPT-4, its most advanced AI model, "a complete secret", said Musk's lawyers. Musk co-founded OpenAI in 2015, but stepped down from its board in 2018. He also runs electric vehicle maker Tesla and rocket maker SpaceX, and bought Twitter for 44bn in October 2022.

On May 30, the Center for AI Safety released a public warning of the risk artificial intelligence poses to humanity. The one-sentence statement signed by more than 350 scientists, business executives and public figures asserts: "Mitigating the risk of extinction from A.I. should be a global priority alongside other societal scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war." It is hard not to sense the brutal double irony in this declaration. First, some of the signatories – including the CEOs of Google DeepMind and OpenAI – warning about the end of civilisation represent companies that are responsible for creating this technology in the first place. Second, it is exactly these same companies that have the power to ensure that AI actually benefits humanity, or at the very least does not do harm.

Silicon Valley churns out new products all the time, but rarely does one receive the level of hype that has surrounded the release of GPT-4. The follow-up to ChatGPT can ace standardized tests, tell you why a meme is funny, and even help do your taxes. Since the San Francisco start-up OpenAI introduced the technology earlier this month, it has been branded as "remarkable but unsettling," and has led to grandiose statements about how "things will never be the same." But actually trying out these features for yourself--or at least the ones that have already been publicly released--does not come cheap. Unlike ChatGPT, which captivated the world because it was free, GPT-4 is currently only available to non-developers through a premium service that costs $20 a month.

"AI image generators use two neural networks. The first neural network creates an image while the second judges how close to the real thing the image is, based on real-life examples from the internet. Once scoring the image for accuracy is complete, the data is sent back to the original AI system. That system then learns from the feedback and sends back an altered image for further scoring until the AI-generated image matches the control/template image. "We recognize that work involving generative models has the potential for significant, broad societal impacts. In the future, we plan to analyze how models like DALL·E relate to societal issues like economic impact on certain work processes and professions, the potential for bias in the model outputs, and the longer term ethical challenges implied by this technology."-openai.com AI-generated image results are made from a collection of images it has no right to use. It does not create as artists do. Artists did not opt-in their work for this. AI is sourcing from portfolio sites like Behance, Art Station, Deviantart, Dribbble, and Pinterest without the original author's consent. The text below is taken from a now-suspended Kickstarter by Unstable Diffusion. The 2nd paragraph is especially telling. It's as much a tool as a robotic arm is on an assembly line. It's not meant for artists but as a replacement for artists. AI companies want amateurs to produce artwork without the need for further editing. It is marketed toward amateurs with the promise that they can create art without being an artist. Making good art is harder still. It is the very antithesis of what AI companies are claiming to stand for. And as it stands today, illegal and unethical. Why are they doing this? To unleash your creative power? If you believe that, I have some NFTs to sell you. "Our hope is that DALL·E 2 will empower people to express themselves creatively.

As chief operating officer of one of the world's leading artificial intelligence labs, I spend a lot of time thinking about how our technologies impact people's lives – and how we can ensure that our efforts have a positive outcome. This is the focus of my work, and the critical message I bring when I meet world leaders and key figures in our industry. For instance, it was at the forefront of the panel discussion on'Equity Through Technology' that I hosted this week at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Inspired by the important conversations taking place at Davos on building a greener, fairer, better world, I wanted to share a few reflections on my own journey as a technology leader, along with some insight into how we at DeepMind are approaching the challenge of building technology that truly benefits the global community. In 2000, I took a sabbatical from my job at Intel to visit the orphanage in Lebanon where my father was raised. For two months, I worked to install 20 PCs in the orphanage's first computer lab, and to train the students and teachers to use them.

For several years, there have been many discussions on AI's capability. Many believed that AI outperforms humans in solving a few sectors. As the technology in its infancy, researchers are expecting human-like autonomous systems in the next coming years. OpenAI strategy has a leading posture in the artificial intelligence research space. The goal is on advancing digital intelligence in a way that can benefit humanity as a whole.

For several years, there has been a lot of discussion around AI's capabilities. Many believe that AI will outperform humans in solving certain areas. As the technology is in its infancy, researchers are expecting human-like autonomous systems in the next coming years. OpenAI has a leading stance in the artificial intelligence research space. Founded in December 2015, the company's goal is to advance digital intelligence in a way that can benefit humanity as a whole.

In June, when MIT artificial intelligence researcher Regina Barzilay went to Massachusetts General Hospital for a mammogram, her data were run through a deep learning model designed to assess her risk of developing breast cancer, which she had been diagnosed with once before. The workings of the algorithm, which predicted that her risk was low, were familiar: Barzilay helped build that very model, after being spurred by her 2014 cancer diagnosis to pivot her research to health care. Barzilay's work in AI, which ranges from tools for early cancer detection to platforms to identify new antibiotics, is increasingly garnering recognition: On Wednesday, the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence named Barzilay as the inaugural recipient of a new annual award honoring an individual developing or promoting AI for the good of society. The award comes with a $1 million prize sponsored by the Chinese education technology company Squirrel AI Learning. While there are already prizes in the AI field, notably the Turing Award for computer scientists, those existing awards are typically "more focused on scientific, technical contributions and ideas," said Yolanda Gil, a past president of AAAI and an AI researcher at the University of Southern California.