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🧑‍⚖️ Sam Altman Testifies Before Senate

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and other industry leaders just testified on artificial intelligence before a Senate Committee hearing.

The hearing was a three-hour-long rollercoaster ride. But if there was one juicy bit to take away, it's this- everybody and their dog agrees that AI needs regulation. But here's the kicker- it’s such a complex problem that no one really knows how to approach it yet.

Sam Altman also dropped a bombshell. The guy owns NO equity in OpenAI and only gets a paycheck that covers his health insurance costs. If that's true, he must really love his job!

For those of you interested in all the nitty-gritty, you can watch the full hearing here. But if you're like us and prefer the rundown, our favorite AI YouTuber, Matt Wolfe, has got you covered with a neat recap here. Enjoy!

🤖 AI Robots Have Arrived

Sanctuary AI, a Vancouver-based robotics firm, has just revealed Phoenix, their humanoid robot designed for the workforce.

This 5'7" robot, weighing 155 pounds, features complex hands that emulate human dexterity. Capable of lifting up to 55 pounds and moving at three miles per hour, Phoenix's practical abilities have been demonstrated in a week-long pilot at a retail store where it performed tasks ranging from merchandise packing to cleaning and tagging.

Just hours after Phoenix's reveal, Tesla's humanoid robot Optimus also made its presence known with their first tweet.

The robots are coming, folks. The potential of humanoid robots like Phoenix is genuinely incredible but also scary at the same time.

🧬 Revolutionizing Healthcare With AI

Hippocratic AI is building AI-powered tools such as their safety-first large language model (LLM) to replace WebMD and empower patients with safe, aligned AI medical expertise at their fingertips.

Co-founded by a team of physicians, hospital administrators, Medicare professionals, and AI researchers, the AI startup just secured $50 million in seed funding from General Catalyst and Andreessen Horowitz.

CEO Munjal Shah emphasizes that Hippocratic's AI outperforms leading models like GPT-4 and Claude in over 100 healthcare certifications.

Hippocratic now has the money AND the manpower to create a revolutionary product. It’s going to be fun watching this one develop!

🎓 Texas A&M Prof Fails Every Student For Using AI

In this shocking Reddit post, a commerce professor at Texas A&M apparently just FAILED every student in his entire class of seniors, blocking them all from graduating.

Why? Because he believed the students used ChatGPT to complete several assignments.

The original poster (OP) shared an email from the professor explaining that he had used his own ChatGPT account to check the students' assignments. If the AI claimed to have generated the content, the students were given a zero grade.

However, the professor misunderstood how ChatGPT works. The AI is not designed to detect if the content was AI-generated, and it tends to say "Yes, I wrote that text" to virtually any text you present.

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