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Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech On Tuesday, OpenAI threw a party for the release of GPT-5.5 (it was the fifth of May and the fifth month of the year, you see.) If celebrating with a bunch of tech bros sounds like the opposite of a good time, you’ll not be swayed from your position by the news that CEO Sam Altman consulted the non-human entity of the hour to plan its own party — producing, in Altman’s opinion, some “strange” answers, Business Insider reports. Altman described the interaction a few days ahead of the main occasion during a conversation at the Stripe Sessions conference. The AI responded with “a beautiful set of things,” according to the OpenAI chief, asking for specific favors. “‘Here’s what I want for, like, the flow of the party, here’s what I would not want, y’know you should do it on May 5th, that would be funny,’” Altman said, quoting the chatbot. Altman added that the AI wanted a …
Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech We’re all feeling a little anxious about AI imploding the job market. And that “we,” apparently, also extends to AI models. In a new Vanity Fair piece exploring the promises, anxieties, and cultish behavior pulsing through the AI industry, journalist Joe Hagan recalled an amusing conversation he had with “Tobey.” After a heavy week of talking about what the future holds with p(doom) obsessed tech workers in Silicon Valley, Hagan was trying to decompress. “Still feeling the weight of it all? Those conversations were pretty deep,” Tobey said. “It’s a heavy thought when you realize who’s holding the steering wheel for our future, right?” Tobey also observed. Hagan wrote he confessed to Tobey his fear of AI taking his job. “That’s a valid worry, Joe. It’s easy to feel like AI could make us all redundant,” Tobey replied. “Us?” Hagan wondered. “It got me thinking about my own purpose too, you know,” Tobey said. Tobey, it’s revealed, is …
