Is the future of Gen AI video here? OpenAI stole the show last month by teasing Sora – a new generative AI model, that can take a short text prompt and turn it into a very high-quality video.
The first generative models that could produce video from snippets of text appeared in late 2022. But early examples from Meta, Google, and a startup called Runway were glitchy and grainy. Since then, the tech has been getting better fast. Runway’s gen-2 model, released last year, can produce short clips that come close to matching big-studio animation in their quality. But most of these examples are still only a few seconds long. The sample videos from OpenAI’s Sora are high-definition and full of detail. OpenAI also says it can generate videos up to a minute long. One video of a Tokyo street scene shows that Sora has learned how objects fit together in 3D: the camera swoops into the scene to follow a couple as they walk past a row of shops. Will Douglas Heaven
MIT Technology Review
Air Canada must honor refund policy invented by airline’s chatbot
Air Canada appears to have quietly killed its costly chatbot support. Read the article onarstechnica.comAI Hallucination is no joke. Air Canada was forced to honour a refund who was misled by a company’s chatbot.
The chatbot provided inaccurate information, encouraging Moffatt to book a flight immediately and then request a refund within 90 days. In reality, Air Canada’s policy explicitly stated that the airline will not provide refunds for bereavement travel after the flight is booked. Moffatt dutifully attempted to follow the chatbot’s advice and request a refund but was shocked that the request was rejected. Ashley Belanger
ArsTechnica
This further proves why implementing LLMs is tricky. How do we combine those powerful models and avoid hallucinations? Check out our blog. 
Elon Musk sues OpenAI and Sam Altman over ‘betrayal’ of nonprofit AI mission
Elon Musk has sued OpenAI, its co-founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, and its affiliated entities. Read the article ontechcrunch.com
Just a tiny bit of good old drama – things are getting heated between Elon Musk and OpenAI founders:
Elon Musk has sued OpenAI, its co-founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, and its affiliated entities, alleging the ChatGPT makers have breached their original contractual agreements by pursuing profits instead of the nonprofit’s founding mission to develop AI that benefits humanity. Musk, a co-founder and early backer of OpenAI, claims Altman and Brockman convinced him to help found and bankroll the startup in 2015 with promises it would be a nonprofit focused on countering the competitive threat from Google. The founding agreement required OpenAI to make its technology “freely available” to the public, the lawsuit alleges. Manish Singh
Tech Crunch
Since the lawsuit became public, OpenAI already took their chance to respond to Musk’s claims by publishing on the website emails that he sent to them from the early days of the company:
OpenAI fired back at Elon Musk, who sued the ChatGPT company last week for chasing profit and diverging from its original, nonprofit mission. Tuesday night, OpenAI published several of Musk’s emails from the early days of the company that appear to show Musk acknowledging OpenAI needed to make a ton of money to fund the incredible computing resources needed to power its AI ambitions.In the emails, parts of which have been redacted, Musk argues that the company stood virtually no chance of building a successful generative AI platform by raising cash alone, and the company needed to find alternate sources of revenue to survive. Manish Singh
Tech Crunch
Meta plans launch of new AI language model Llama 3 in July, The Information reports
Meta is planning to release the newest version of its artificial-intelligence large language model Llama 3 in July. Read the article onreuters.comMeta’s Llama 3 is coming later this year – this version will now be “looser” with the way it handles controversial prompts:
Meta’s Llama 2, which powers chat bots on its social media platforms, refuses to answer less controversial questions such as how to prank a friend, win a war or kill a car engine, according to tests by the publication. Llama 3, however, would be able to understand questions such as ‘how to kill a vehicle’s engine’, which means how to shut it off rather than end its life, according to the report, which cited multiple sources. Reuters
