What's New Today: Headspace Health faces another round of layoffs within a year.
Fast-Track Insights: 'Dual-Coin' Crypto Loans by Bitget to Increase Investor Liquidity.
OpenAI, the company that developed ChatGPT, announced on Wednesday that it will devote major resources to the effort and establish a new research team to examine how to make artificial intelligence that eventually controls itself safe for people. Ilya Sutskever, a co-founder of OpenAI, and Jan Leike, the director of the alignment, said in a blog post that "the vast power of superintelligence could… lead to the disempowerment of humanity or even human extinction." We now lack a method for directing or managing a possibly superintelligent AI and keeping it from acting erratically.
Headspace Health, a company that offers meditation and mental health services, revealed that 181 employees, or 15% of its staff, were let go. The reductions mark the company's second wave of layoffs in the previous 12 months. It fired around 50 employees, or 4% of the staff, in December. Russell Glass, the company's CEO, informed staff of the recent layoffs in an internal message, claiming that the business had misjudged how the present economic climate would affect customer behavior.
Microsoft and LinkedIn announced a new project to offer free AI courses online to people and organizations. The AI Skill Initiative offers various tools, such as free basic generative AI courses, a new professional certificate on generative AI, and a global grant challenge to find novel approaches to generative AI training workers. An excellent method to start learning about artificial intelligence is through free beginning classes. Read More
The cryptocurrency lending program that Bitget intends to introduce to consumers would enable them to stake their coins in return for loans in another. The program, according to the derivatives trading platform, is intended for borrowers who are disappointed with conventional lenders. According to Gracy Chen, managing director of BitGet, the loan program aids borrowers in expanding their investment holdings beyond the coins they already possess.
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