OpenAI open sources Whisper, a speech recognition system that was trained on 680K hours of “multilingual and multitask supervised data collected from the web” (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

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OpenAI open sources Whisper, a speech recognition system that was trained on 680K hours of “multilingual and multitask supervised data collected from the web”  —  Speech recognition remains a challenging problem in AI and machine learning.  In a step toward solving it …

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A look at OpenAI’s Minecraft bot, which has learned to complete complex tasks in Minecraft after being trained on 70K hours of video of people playing the game  —  Online videos are a vast and untapped source of training data—and OpenAI says it has a new way to use it.

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Mem, a work-focused app that uses AI to organize notes, raised $23.5M led by the OpenAI Startup Fund at a $110M valuation, bringing its total funding to $29M (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

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Mem, a work-focused app that uses AI to organize notes, raised $23.5M led by the OpenAI Startup Fund at a $110M valuation, bringing its total funding to $29M  —  Last year, OpenAI announced the OpenAI Startup Fund, a tranche through which it and its partners, including Microsoft …

OpenAI starts letting DALL-E 2 customers upload and edit people’s faces, after initially banning the uploading of photos that may depict real people (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

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Q&A with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on why DALL-E 2 made such an impact, the lessons from its success about AI’s next decade, what DALL-E means for society, and more (Will Douglas Heaven/MIT Technology Review)

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