Artificial Intelligence (AI) or Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) technology has been brewing for quite a while, and used successfully in many applications, but in 2022 the new era of AI was no longer hidden. This page is a timeline that traces back through some AI milestones, and will be updated with current information as time permits.
At the 2023 World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, the guests were introduced to just how far AI technology had advanced, with the promotion of ChatGPT , a chatbot powered by Artificial Intelligence. AI is highly useful and can be applied to almost any modern technology application, BUT it can be programmed to be biased and CONTROL the information or outcomes, all of which has far reaching consequences for our freedoms.
Some noteworthy new era AI technology milestones:
- Nov 30, 2022 – OpenAI launched chatbot called ChatGPT
- Feb 6, 2023 – Google launched chatbot called Bard (later rebrands Gemini)
- Dec 6, 2023 – Google launched Gemini to the public
Other notes:
- “Artificial Intelligence” at Wikipedia is padlock-protected content! – HERE
- AI powers transhumanism merger of man and machine, Joe Allen reports – HERE
This page will collect but a snapshot of AI content, it is helping me to understand what is going on, maybe it will for your too. I adding content about Sam Altman‘s history leading up to his Universal Basic Income inspired Worldcoin, iris Orb scanner, digital ID company as well.
Links in reverse chronological order
This content is continuously being updated
2024
April 3, 2024 – Technocracy News: Trilateral Commissioner Larry Summers, OpenAI Board Member, Says All Labor Will Be Replaced – READ, OpenAI’s NEW SHOCKING Statement On AI – WATCH, Leo Hohmann – “…gets scant attention from corporate mainstream media” – READ
- “With the immediate release of my The Genesis of Modern Globalization (1978-1979), the first in a series of three, Professor Antony Sutton and I [Patrick Wood] lay out all of the details of the Trilateral Commission’s early plans to take over the world.”
- Larry Summers recently became a member of OpenAI’s board of directors. He has membership in the Trilateral Commission (TC), the Council on Foreign Relations, has previously served in the Clinton and Obama administrations, and former US Treasury Secretary
- Summer’s “friendship” with Jeffrey Epstein started before he became Harvard University President, both served on TC together. Epstein donated $30M to Harvard (2003 article).
- “Summers will undoubtedly get on board with Altman’s plan for Universal Basic Income (UBI), a concept of historic Technocracy from the 1930s. UBI is a stipend paid to all who have no useful purpose in life.”
March 24, 2024 – Fortune Magazine: Larry Summers, now an OpenAI board member, thinks AI could replace ‘almost all’ forms of labor. Just don’t expect a ‘productivity miracle’ anytime soon – READ, ARCHIVE, Fox News: AI threatenes US job growth – READ
“If one takes a view over the next generation, this could be the biggest thing that has happened in economic history since the Industrial Revolution… This offers the prospect of not replacing some forms of human labor, but almost all forms of human labor.“
Larry Summers to Fortune’s Innovation Forum in Hong Kong
February 29, 2024 – Public Substack: Google CEO Pledged To Use AI To Counter “Fake News,” Racism, And Populism After Trump Victory – but Google’s bias has been on public display since August 2017… – READ
February 28, 2024 – The Economist: Is Google’s Gemini chatbot woke by accident, or by design? “It all STARTED with black Vikings and Asian Nazis” – READ, The Guardian – READ, NBC News- READ
February 27, 2024 – Mel K with Google Whistleblower Zach Vorhies – The Truth About Google: Seeing Beyond the Grand Illusion – WATCH
- Google’s Gemini is erasing history and “white” image bias! – EXCERPT
February 22, 2024 – CNBC: Google pauses Gemini AI image generator after it created inaccurate historical pictures – READ, Reuters – READ
February 8, 2024 – The Highwire Ep 358: THE DAWN OF AUGMENTED HUMANITY – WATCH, FULL
- “With Elon Musk announcing the first human has had his Neuralink device implanted in their brain, we do a deep dive into the history of implantable technology. From its CIA and military roots to the current developers whose shocking admissions should cause us all to pause
February 8, 2024 – Reuters: Google rebrands Bard chatbot as Gemini, rolls out paid subscription – READ
- U.S. customers can subscribe for $19.99 a month to access Gemini Advanced, which includes a more powerful Ultra 1.0 AI model, with two terabytes of cloud storage – called Google One AI Premium plan
January 15, 2024 – Reuters: Microsoft offers $20 consumer AI subscription to Copilot Pro to boost business – READ
January 9, 2024 – Gateway Pundit: AI Justice: England and Wales Authorize Judges To Use Artificial Intelligence To Produce Rulings – now the implications for our civil liberties are impossible to dismiss – READ
2023
December 7, 2023 – The Verge: Google’s Bard chatbot is getting way better thanks to [being powered by] Gemini Pro – READ
December 7, 2023 – The Verge: Google launches Gemini, the AI model it hopes will take down GPT-4 – a year into the AI era brought on by ChatGPT, [Google is] finally making a big move – READ
- Gemini is Google’s latest large language model, which Pichai first teased at the I/O developer conference in June 2023, but is now launching to the public
- Google’s DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis “it’s a huge leap forward in an AI model that will ultimately affect practically all of Google’s products”
December 6, 2023 – Google Blog: Introducing Gemini: our largest and most capable AI model – READ
- Gemini 1.0 is now rolling out across a range of products and platforms – READ
- A new era of AI at Google, the Gemini era sasy Google CEO Sundar Pichai
- There are: Gemini Nano, Gemini Pro, Gemini Ultra
November 22, 2023- Fortune magazine: Larry Summers, who more and more thinks ‘ChatGPT is coming for the cognitive class,’ just joined OpenAI’s board to seal Sam Altman’s triumphant comeback – ARCHIVE
November 22, 2023 – Reuters: Sam Altman to return as OpenAI CEO after his tumultuous ouster – READ
- He then “bought in new Directors who would be more amenable to his plans to conquer the world….Enter Larry Summers, member of the Trilateral Commission and new member of OpenAI’s Board of Directors!” – REF
November 19, 2023 – Guardian: Sam Altman ‘was working on new venture’ before sacking from OpenAI – READ
- The Verge: New CEO is Twitch co-founder Emmett Shear, the 3rd in just a few days – READ
November 18, 2023 – The Verge: Sam Altman fired as CEO of OpenAI -President and co-founder Greg Brockman has also quit – READ, Sputnick International – READ, What happened? – READ, CNN: internal investigation found that Altman was not always truthful with the board – READ
November 17, 2023 – OpenAI: OpenAI announces leadership transition – READ
August 8, 2023 – The Street: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s latest venture under fire for privacy concerns – Altman is not content with changing the internet. He wants to change the world – READ, CREDIT
- Sam Altman “another tech entrepreneur intent on ushering in a new era of civilization…he’s interested in the creation and implementation of artificial intelligence.” Working on “artificial general intelligence (AGI), or AI that is generally smarter than humans.” OpenAI mission is “to build and deploy AGI in order to benefit all of humanity”!
- “He has another venture, one that ties together AI and cryptocurrency in a new firm with lofty goals and privacy risks possibly more severe than those posed by his AI models: Worldcoin.” The idea of Worldcoin is twofold:
- “First, the company wanted to find a way to verify humanity in a world that is already teeming with AI bots. It’s achieving this through a piece of tech called the Orb, which scans people’s irises and converts those scans into a string of numeric code.
- Second, in a world that is already threatened by explosive AI-driven job loss, Worldcoin is intent on providing universal basic income to its users. …the company’s goal is to scan every human on Earth“
- WorldCoin.org launched June 2021 with footnote “Tools for Humanity Corp” – ARCHIVES, ARCHIVE
- Tools for Humanity are “building tools for Worldcoin and beyond” and are “Founded in 2019 by Alex Blania (CEO) and Sam Altman (Chairman).” – READ
August 3, 2023 – Time Magazine: What to Know About Worldcoin and the Controversy Around It – READ
August 2, 2023 – Kenya Press Release – TWEET, Kenya became the first country to suspend Worldcoin’s activities and its government launched a multi-agency investigation into the project’s practices – Time Magazine – READ, CREDIT
July 31, 2023 – Robert Malone Substack: A Conversation with Chat GPT re Population Control- and the lies an AI will tell to protect US Government policy – READ
July 24, 2023 – Reuters: OpenAI’s Sam Altman launches Worldcoin crypto project – READ, Worldcoin’s cryptocurrency token (WLD) – READ, CREDIT – CoinMarketCap – GRAPH
- “The project’s core offering is its World ID, which the company describes as a “digital passport” to prove that its holder is a real human, not an AI bot. To get a World ID, a customer signs up to do an in-person iris scan using Worldcoin’s ‘orb’, a silver ball approximately the size of a bowling ball. Once the orb’s iris scan verifies the person is a real human, it creates a World ID.”
May 17, 2023 – CBS News: Sen. Richard Blumenthal kicked off a Senate hearing on artificial intelligence with introductory remarks generated by AI. He said the words used in the recording were created by ChatGPT and the audio came from an AI voice-cloning software – WATCH at Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law
March 27, 2023 – Summit News: ChatGPT Jokes About Jesus Being ‘Nailed to a Board’, Refuses to Crack Joke About Muhammad – Another example of woke bias revealed – ARCHIVE
March 31, 2023 – Independent: ChatGPT now banned in Italy – READ, CREDIT
February 13, 2023 – CNET: AI Is Speeding Us Toward Intelligent Computers and the Singularity, Says John Hennessy, a Silicon Valley pioneer and former Stanford president, says AI progress is “stunning.” – READ
- The “singularity” — that ordinary humans will someday be overtaken by artificially intelligent machines or cognitively enhanced biological intelligence, or both — has moved from the realm of science fiction to serious debate.” – REF
February 12, 2023 – Daily Mail: The nine shocking replies that highlight ‘woke’ ChatGPT’s inherent bias — including struggling to define a woman, praising Democrats but not Republicans and saying nukes are less dangerous than racism – READ, Daily Mail – READ
February 10, 2023 – Reuters: Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates: ChatGPT ‘will change our world’ – “Until now, artificial intelligence could read and write, but could not understand the content…” – READ
February 8, 2023 – The Verge: Microsoft’s ChatGPT-powered Bing is open for everyone to try starting today – READ
February 7, 2023 – The Verge: It’s official: Google is working on a ChatGPT competitor named Bard – READ
- “Google is working on a competitor to OpenAI’s chatbot ChatGPT. The ‘experimental conversational AI service’ is called Bard and is only being tested by a limited group”
February 6, 2023 – Google blog: An important next step on our AI journey – Introducing Bard to early testers- READ, DiscloseTV – READ, The Verge – READ, CNET – READ
- Two years ago we unveiled next-generation language and conversation capabilities powered by our Language Model for Dialogue Applications (or LaMDA for short). Bard is an experimental conversational AI service, powered by LaMDA. Today opening it up to trusted testers ahead of making it more widely available to the public in the coming weeks.
- “Bard seeks to combine the breadth of the world’s knowledge with the power, intelligence and creativity of our large language models. It draws on information from the web to provide fresh, high-quality responses.”
February 8, 2023 – NY Times: Microsoft integrated powerful A.I. technology into its search engine Bing – READ
- NY Times: Bing Won’t Stop Declaring Its Love for Me – READ
January 28, 2023 – NY Post: How woke ChatGPT’s ‘built-in ideological bias’ could do more harm than good – political bias – READ
- “OpenAI hasn’t denied any of the allegations of bias, but Sam Altman, the company’s CEO and ChatGPT co-creator, explained on Twitter that what seems like censorship “is in fact us trying to stop it from making up random facts.”
January 25, 2023 – NY Post: ChatGPT could make these jobs obsolete: ‘The wolf is at the door’ – READ
- Some of the jobs sectors most vulnerable to the fast-learning, ever-evolving technology could include Education , Finance, Software engineering, Journalism and Graphic design
January 23, 2023 – CNBC: Microsoft announces new multibillion-dollar investment in ChatGPT-maker OpenAI – READ, NY Post “making a “multiyear, multibillion dollar investment” – READ, WSJ – READ,
MS already invested $1B in July 2019
January 20, 2023 – J of Social Sciences: The Political Biases of ChatGPT by David Rozado – READ, Extended analysis – READ
January 19, 2023 – Axios: ChatGPT is the talk of Davos – ARCHIVE
- “Forget crypto and blockchain: The tech conversation at this year’s World Economic Forum in Davos is all about the rise of artificial intelligence, particularly the text-generator ChatGPT”
- “Concerns range from the inevitable flood of AI-generated misinformation to the biases baked into systems that have been trained on real-world data that’s filled with stereotypes and dominated by rich countries.”
January 5, 2023 – WSJ: ChatGPT Creator Is Talking to Investors About Selling Shares at $29 Billion Valuation – Tender offer at that valuation would make OpenAI one of the most valuable U.S. startups – READ, CREDIT
2022
December 22, 2022 – Cnet: ChatGPT Caused ‘Code Red’ at Google, Report Says – ChatGPT can deliver direct answers quickly, not pages of endless links. That’s reportedly scaring Google – READ, NY Times – READ, CREDIT
December 9, 2022 – The Verge: ChatGPT proves AI is finally mainstream – and things are only going to get weirder –READ
December 6, 2022 – The Telegraph: Meet ChatGPT, the scarily intelligent robot who can do your job better than you – OpenAI’s chatbot proves the gap between computers and humans is rapidly narrowing – READ
December 5, 2022 – David Rozado Substack: The political orientation of the ChatGPT AI system –Applying Political Typology Quizes to a state-of-the-art AI Language model – READ
- By administering 15 political orientation tests to ChatGPT … answers to their questions as manifesting a preference for left-leaning viewpoints.
November 30, 2022 – Sam Altman X: OpenAI launch ChatGPT – TWEET, and reach 1 million users in 5 days – TWEET, ARCHIVE,
- Zero Hedge: apparently the legacy news outlets were slow to report on the decade’s biggest tech story – READ
November 30, 2022 – OpenAI: Introducing ChatGPT: Optimizing Language Models for Dialogue – We are excited to introduce ChatGPT to get users’ feedback and learn about its strengths and weaknesses – READ, ARCHIVE
- “We’ve trained a model called ChatGPT which interacts in a conversational way. The dialogue format makes it possible for ChatGPT to answer followup questions, admit its mistakes, challenge incorrect premises, and reject inappropriate requests.”
- ChatGPT can currently be accessed for free here: https://chat.openai.com/chat
October 31, 2022 – Worldcoin Whitepaper: Worldcoin Foundation was “established as the non-profit steward of the Worldcoin protocol, supporting and growing the ecosystem until it becomes self-sufficient” – ARCHIVE, WIRED- CREDIT
- ” To both trial its technology and scale its user base, Worldcoin conducted initial field tests across 27 countries—from Norway and Chile, to Kenya and Sudan. A team of independent contractors, called Orb Operators, who were paid a commission for each iris scanned, notched up hundreds of thousands of signups. 14 of the trial nations are classified as developing, per WorldBank.” – REF
Worldcoin Whitepaper: A New Identity and Financial Network – Introducing Worldcoin – ARCHIVE
- “Worldcoin was founded with the mission of creating a globally-inclusive identity and financial network, owned by the majority of humanity. If successful, Worldcoin could considerably increase economic opportunity, scale a reliable solution for distinguishing humans from AI online while preserving privacy, enable global democratic processes, and show a potential path to AI-funded UBI [Universal Basic Income]….“Proof of personhood” is one of the core ideas behind Worldcoin:
- Proof of Personhood (PoP) – “For high-stakes use cases such as global UBI, the democratic governance of AI and the Worldcoin project, a highly secure and inclusive PoP mechanism to prevent multiple registrations is needed.” – ARCHIVE
- “Iris biometrics outperform other biometric modalities … [and is] several orders of magnitude more accurate than the current state of the art in face recognition. Moreover, the structure of the iris exhibits remarkable stability over time”..”the iris is hard to modify”. [Think protocol for Digital ID/CBDC]
- “Based on the conclusion that the only path to verify uniqueness on a global scale is iris biometrics, Tools for Humanity built a custom biometric device, called the Orb. This device issues an AI-safe PoP credential called World ID” Fig3
April 2, 2022 – MIT Tech Review: Deception, exploited workers, and cash handouts: How Worldcoin recruited its first half a million test users – he startup promises a fairly-distributed, cryptocurrency-based universal basic income. So far all it’s done is build a biometric database from the bodies of the poor – READ, CREDIT
- “Our investigation revealed wide gaps between Worldcoin’s public messaging, which focused on protecting privacy, and what users experienced. We found that the company’s representatives used deceptive marketing practices, collected more personal data than it acknowledged, and failed to obtain meaningful informed consent“
2021
October 22, 2021 – Edward Snowden Tweet: Warns about the ORB iris scan connected to Worldcoin – TWEET, CREDIT
This looks like it produces a global (hash) database of people’s iris scans (for “fairness”), and waves away the implications by saying “we deleted the scans!”
Yeah, but you save the *hashes* produced by the scans. Hashes that match *future* scans.
Don’t catalogue eyeballs.
Edward Snowden TWEET
October 22, 2021 – Biz Journal | Silicon Valley Business Journal: The Funded: Sam Altman new $1B startup is aiming for global adoption of its new cryptocurrency – READ WorldCoin.
- “How does one deliver cryptocurrency to the masses? By handing out free digital cash to anyone who gets their eyeballs scanned with a silver orb. That’s the premise of Worldcoin, a new startup from Sam Altman, the former president of startup accelerator Y Combinator.”
- “The San Francisco company, legally known as Tools for Humanity Corp., has developed an ethereum-based cryptocurrency … It’s aiming to have 1 billion users of its digital money by 2023″
October 21, 2021 – CNBC: Silicon Valley entrepreneur Sam Altman wants to scan your eyes in exchange for free cryptocurrency – READ , Sam Altman introduce Worldcoin – TWEET, Worldcoin launched out of “stealth” on Oct 21, 2021, Altman’s other company. Origins of Worldcoin – READ, Tools for Humanity the scanning ORB for “Verifying proof of humanness in the age of AI” – READ
- Tech millionaire Sam Altman’s new start-up Worldcoin uses orb-shaped devices to scan people’s eyes in exchange for free cryptocurrency!… “Worldcoin promises to hand out free cryptocurrency to people who verify their accounts by taking an iris scan”
- A metallic orbs that scan people’s eyes – Iris scan “It’s the most secure and privacy-preserving way we found to prove everyone in the world is unique.” said Blania,
- Worldcoin aim [bit didn’t] to hit 1 billion users by 2023, with 100K users globally at this date – “free money” lures in the unsuspecting. Less than 3% population are crypto users.
- Worldcoin CEO Alex Blania hinted Worldcoin could be used as “infrastructure” for a universal basic income one day.
June 30, 2021 – The Verge: GitHub and OpenAI launch a new AI tool called Copilot that autocompletes code snippets – Copilot is a virtual coder working alongside a human coder – READ
- “This project is the first major result of Microsoft’s $1 billion investment into OpenAI, the research firm now led by Y Combinator president Sam Altman. Since Altman took the reins, OpenAI has pivoted from a nonprofit status to a “capped-profit” model, took on the Microsoft investment, and started licensing its GPT-3 text-generation algorithm.”
- GPT-3 is OpenAI’s flagship language-generating algorithm, which can generate text sometimes indistinguishable to human writing.”
June 29, 2021 – Bloomberg: Sam Altman Wants to Scan Your Eyeball in Exchange for Cryptocurrency, the first report of Worldcoin and the Orb iris scanner after after Bloomberg uncovered details of it and inquired – READ, ARCHIVE, CREDIT
- Former President of Silicon Valley accelerator Y Combinator, Sam Altman (36 yrs old) is one of three founders of the company Worldcoin, said he conceived Worldcoin idea in late 2019. “The head of the venture is Alexander Blania, 27, a former student of theoretical physics at the California Institute of Technology and the Max Planck Society.” Also Max Novendstern
- “Worldcoin company is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, the venture capital arm of Coinbase Global Inc., LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman and Day One Ventures. It recently raised about $25 million from investors”.
- The intention was to use cryptocurrency to spread money around equitably, inspired by the trendy economic theory known as universal basic income. Altman was the first investor in Worldcoin but said he has no role in day-to-day operations and mainly serves as an adviser to the company when needed.” [UBI is an historic Technocracy concept from 1932]
“I’ve been very interested in things like universal basic income and what’s going to happen to global wealth redistribution and how we can do that better,” …“Is there a way we can use technology to do that at global scale?”
Sam Altman
- “According to Blania, iris-scanning is an essential part of the plan because it can prevent people from trying to register multiple times to defraud the system. He’s also aware of the privacy implications of handing over biometric information to a tiny startup and said Worldcoin will make the process as transparent as possible so user scan see how the data is used.
- Blania said the iris scan will produce a unique numerical code for each person and that the image is then deleted and never stored.” [The very point Ed Snowden warns about, a tracking hash code – TWEET]
“So many people around the world don’t have access to financial systems yet,” … “Crypto has the opportunity to get us there.”
Alexander Blania [start with the developing countries as they do with “health”. See more Digital ID]
2020
December 3, 2020 – WhiteHouse | Infrastructure & Technology (Trump): Executive Order on Promoting the Use of Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence in the Federal Government – ARCHIVE
2019
August 14, 2019 – Project Veritas: Google “Machine Learning Fairness” Whistleblower [Zach Vorhies] Goes Public, says: “burden lifted off of my soul” – WATCH, ARCHIVE, The Highwire Ep 149 – WATCH
July 22, 2019- The Verge: Microsoft invests $1 billion in OpenAI to pursue holy grail of artificial intelligence – READ
- “OpenAI, a San Francisco-based research lab founded by Silicon Valley luminaries, including Elon Musk and Sam Altman, that’s dedicated to creating artificial general intelligence (AGI).
- The investment will make Microsoft the “exclusive” provider of cloud computing services to OpenAI, and the two companies will work together to develop new technologies”
July 22, 2019 – Microsoft: OpenAI forms exclusive computing partnership with Microsoft to build new Azure AI supercomputing technologies – $1 billion from Microsoft – READ
- OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. The OpenAI Charter describes the principles that guide it as it executes on this mission.
June 13, 2019 – House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence: open hearing on the national security challenges of artificial intelligence (AI), manipulated media, and “deepfake” technology and other types of AI-generated synthetic data – WATCH
March 11, 2019 – OpenAI LP, a new “capped-profit” company announced – ARCHIVE
- Going forward (in this post and elsewhere), “OpenAI” refers to OpenAI LP (which now employs most of our staff), and the original entity is referred to as “OpenAI Nonprofit.”
- In order to increase the ability to raise capital while still serving our mission, and no pre-existing legal structure we know of strikes the right balance. Our solution is to create OpenAI LP as a hybrid of a for-profit and nonprofit—which we are calling a “capped-profit” company.
March 8, 2019 – Irish Tech News: Sam Altman to step down as President of Y Combinator and become Chairman OpenAI – READ
February 14, 2019 – OpenAI: Better Language Models and Their Implications – READ, Language Models are Unsupervised Multitask Learners – PDF GPT’s are “Learners” where their model is “primed” with “inputs”.
- “GPT-2 (a successor to GPT) is a large transformer-based language model with 1.5 billion parameters, trained on a dataset of 8 million web pages. GPT-2 is trained with a simple objective: predict the next word, given all of the previous words within some text.”
- Many millions of people were involved in creating the data that GPT-2 was trained on – PDF
February 12, 2019 – US Department of Defense (DoD): Transforming the DoD through AI- Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC) – ARCHIVE, now Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO) – READ
- Summary of DoD 2018 AI Strategy (Feb 12, 2019) – PDF
February 11, 2019 – Whitehouse: Executive Order 13859 On Maintaining American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence – ARCHIVE, REF
2019 – Tools For Humanity Corporation is launched with co-founders Alex Blania, CEO and Sam Altman, Chairman, and HQ in Germany and USA – It is engaged in building tools for blockchain and economic systems – READ. A project on the go for years before – ARCHIVE
- By 2021 it launches Worldcoin, a decentralized digital cryptocurrency. The Company distributes free cryptocurrency in exchange for people allowing their eyes to be scanned using their “ORB“, which begins as a volleyball-sized chrome sphere. –REF
- “built to ensure a more just economic system” ..”We are currently building tools for the Worldcoin project” – Website first live Jan 2023 – ARCHIVE, Not until April 2024 is additional content added to the website!
2018
April 9, 2018 – OpenAI Charter is released – ARCHIVE
- “This document reflects the strategy we’ve refined over the past two years, including feedback from many people internal and external to OpenAI. The timeline to AGI remains uncertain, but our charter will guide us in acting in the best interests of humanity throughout its development.”
2017
December 12, 2017 Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, Innovation, and the Internet: “Digital Decision-Making: The Building Blocks of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence” – READ
May 6, 2017 – OpenAI: Robots that Learn – READ, other research – HERE,
- “We’ve created a robotics system, trained entirely in simulation and deployment on a physical robot, which can learn a new task after seeing [with a vision system] it done one”
January 29, 2017 -Sam Altman Blog: “Time to Take a Stand” READ, ARCHIVE.
- “There are many actions from [Trump’s] first week that are objectionable….unsubstantiated conspiracy theories (like the 3 million illegal votes)” [in an election he won!]
- “The tech community is powerful. Large tech companies in particular have enormous power and are held in high regard. We need to hear from the CEOs clearly and unequivocally….” (re Travel Ban, Atlantic – READ)
- Altman links to a website called “Track Trump” which he is a co-founded – ARCHIVE, Track Trump first archived Jan 22, 2017, tracking his first 100 days – ARCHIVE, READ, and comparison to Obama – ARCHIVE
2016
November 30, 2016 – US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science & Transportation: Commerce Announces First Artificial Intelligence Hearing –The Dawn of Artificial Intelligence – WATCH, ARCHIVE, Press Release – READ, Testimony – ARCHIVE
- Mr. Greg Brockman, Cofounder and Chief Technology Officer, OpenAI – Testimony transcript – PDF
October 13, 2016 – White House Frontiers Conference #FutureofAI – ARCHIVE, Obama Speaks – READ
- discussions with leading experts on harnessing the potential of AI, including data science, machine learning, automation, and robotics to engage and benefit all Americans
AI represents one of history’s biggest advances, on par with books and steam engines
Andrew McAfee, co-director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Initiative on the Digital Economy
October 12, 2016 – Whitehouse (Obama): The Administration’s Report on the Future of Artificial Intelligence – ARCHIVE,
- The White House Future of Artificial Intelligence initiative held 4 Public Workshops on Artificial Intelligence in addition to requests for information (RFI) in June 2016 and the following White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) reports were released:
- Preparing for the Future of Artificial Intelligence which surveys the current state of AI, and “focuses on the opportunities, considerations, and challenges of Artificial Intelligence (AI)” – Report – PDF
- A companion National Artificial Intelligence Research and Development Strategic Plan was also released, “laying out a strategic plan for Federally-funded research and development in AI” – Plan – PDF
October 3, 2016 – Purdue University: Artificial Intelligence: Dawn or Doom Conference – WATCH
- Professor Jennifer Neville talked about the history and future of artificial intelligence and about machine dialog systems called “Chatbots.” Professor Neville focuses her research on machine learning and data mining.
September 6, 2016 – Medium: Public Input and Next Steps on the Future of Artificial Intelligence – ARCHIVE, (watch videos of AI workshops within)
August 29, 2016 – OpenAI: Infrastructure for Deep Learning – READ
- Deep learning is an empirical science, and the quality of a group’s infrastructure is a multiplier on progress. Fortunately, today’s open-source ecosystem makes it possible for anyone to build great deep learning infrastructure.
- Our infrastructure aims to maximize the productivity of deep learning researchers, allowing them to focus on the science
June 21, 2016 – Sam Altman Blog – “Trump” , Sam even mentioned Hitler – READ, ARCHIVE, CREDIT (see Jan 29, 2017)
- “Trump is right about the problem, but horribly wrong about the solution”…I understand why other people in the technology industry aren’t saying much. In an ordinary election it’s reasonable for people in the business world to remain publicly neutral. But this is not an ordinary election.” [Time] to start speaking up”.
- At this time Trump was destined to be announced as the Republican candidate for President in 2016 – READ, with record Primary and Caucus voting numbers – READ (I was wondering what was happening with Trump just before Sam’s post)
June 1, 2016 – Tech Crunch: Y Combinator announces basic income pilot experiment in Oakland [i.e. Universal Basic Income] – READ, Y Combinator – READ, CREDIT
- “Our goal will be to prepare for the longer-term study by working on our methods — how to pay people, how to collect data, how to randomly choose a sample, etc.”
- January 27, 2016 – Y Combinator Research: The Basic Income Project recruitment – ARCHIVE
- The “lack of affordable housing, and a potential labor crisis [are] brought on by technological advancements like artificial intelligence and automation” so Y Combinator president Sam Altman is launched the “new initiative to try and create political solutions” and for a vision for guaranteed basic income to survive
May 3, 2016 – Whitehouse (Obama): Preparing for the Future of Artificial Intelligence initiative – announcing a new series of workshops and an inter-agency working group to learn more about the benefits and risks of artificial intelligence – ARCHIVE (workshops listed within May-July 2016)
- “AI’s influence on the world is growing. The rate of progress we have seen will have broad implications for fields ranging from healthcare to image- and voice-recognition“
- A new National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) Subcommittee on Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence” met for first time May 2016 – PDF
April 27, 2016 – OpenAI Gym Beta – READ, READ, GYM – HERE, Gym was released in Aug 2016 – REF
- Gym is a toolkit for developing and comparing reinforcement learning algorithms. It supports teaching agents everything from walking to playing games like Pong or Pinball
- Reinforcement learning (RL) is the subfield of machine learning concerned with decision making and motor control. It studies how an agent can learn how to achieve goals in a complex, uncertain environment.
2015
December 11, 2015 – Introducing OpenAI – OpenAI is a non-profit artificial intelligence research company… – ARCHIVE, OpenAI’s timeline til March 2019 launch – ARCHIVE, About – READ
- “Artificial general intelligence (AGI) will be the most significant technology ever created by humans” – REF
- “We publish at top machine learning conferences, open-source software tools for accelerating AI research, and release blog posts to communicate our research.” (2017)
- “OpenAI’s research director is Ilya Sutskever, one of the world experts in machine learning. Our CTO is Greg Brockman, formerly the CTO of Stripe. The group’s other founding members are world-class research engineers and scientists: Trevor Blackwell, Vicki Cheung, Andrej Karpathy, Durk Kingma, John Schulman, Pamela Vagata, and Wojciech Zaremba. Pieter Abbeel, Yoshua Bengio, Alan Kay, Sergey Levine, and Vishal Sikka are advisors to the group. OpenAI’s co-chairs are Sam Altman and Elon Musk.” – REF
- “Sam, Greg, Elon, Reid Hoffman, Jessica Livingston, Peter Thiel, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Infosys, and YC Research are donating to support OpenAI. In total, these funders have committed $1 billion“
- Individuals and companies sponsoring OpenAI:
- Sam Altman
Greg Brockman
Reid Hoffman
Jessica Livingston
Elon Musk
Peter Thiel
- Sam Altman
2014
March 18, 2014 – Vox: Y Combinator’s New Head Startup Whisperer Sam Altman Is Quite a Talker – Meet the guy taking the reins of the influential startup program Y Combinator from its long time leader, Paul Graham – READ Sam was president of the firm from 2014 to 2019.
- Y Combinator has turned out 630 companies from its biannual classes, including three that are valued in multiple billions of dollars: Dropbox, Airbnb and Stripe. (and Coinbase)
- “Under Altman, Y Combinator planned experiments on universal basic income that have faced some delays and complications” – REF
- “Stripe was Altman’s first-ever angel investment, and he remains closely involved in the company.” – REF
2012
March 9, 2012 – All Things D: Loopt’s Sam Altman on Why He Sold to Green Dot for $43.4M – READ, CREDIT
- “After Loopt, Altman helped Green Dot launch a mobile banking product, then split time between helping out at Y Combinator and some explorations into energy startups”
2008
June 10, 2008 – Apple’s WWDC 2008: Sam Altman Loopt shows off new app for the iPhone – WATCH, CREDIT
2005
September 2005 – LOOPT began: Sam Altman at aged 19, dropped out of Stanford as a sophomore computer science major and started Loopt which “transforms your mobile phone into a social compass” AKA a tracking service – ARCHIVE, WIKIPEDIA, History, Launched in 2006 – ARCHIVE, Sold 2012, Bloomberg – CREDIT
- The start up received received initial funding from Y Combinator and initial $5 million from Sequoia Capital and New Enterprise Associates [$17M in total]. They initially moved into “Sequoia’s incubation space where they shared office space with the YouTube team…” – REF
- Board of directors include NEA’s Patrick Chung, a Canadian? who also heads genetic databank 23andMe. He is a Harvard graduate, went to Oxford University and previously worked for McKinsey & Company (who are used by United Nations and WEF)- ARCHIVE, Other Loopt Board members – ARCHIVE
- “Altman rose from being the 19-year-old founder of a middling social network called Loopt to becoming a startup kingmaker at Y Combinator. He was president of the firm from 2014 to 2019, during which some of the accelerator’s companies, including Airbnb Inc., Dropbox Inc. and Stripe Inc., became some of the most valuable startups in America.”
- While at Stanford, Altman worked in their AI lab – REF
- Dorm mate Blake Ross [FB, Mozilla] told Sam about Y Combinator – REF
