The AI ​​industry is at a major crossroads

Hello, and welcome to Decryption! I’m Hayden Field, chief artificial intelligence correspondent at Edge And guest host of Thursday’s episode. I’m filling in for Nilay while he’s still on paternity leave, and I’m excited to continue diving into the good, the bad, and the questionable in the AI ​​industry.

It’s been a pretty big news week in the AI ​​space, and a lot of it has to do with OpenAI. The company hosted its annual DevDay in San Francisco on Monday, and I’m still here in person to cover all the news. It announced a host of new ChatGPT product features and proxy tools, and executives also laid out a very bold vision for the future of AI.

At the same time, a new Sora iOS app has pushed AI-generated videos into the mainstream, creating all sorts of unintended consequences and even surprising OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, who has become the face of Sora memes online.

Earlier this week, New York Times published A fascinating story about how AI-powered job screening has become so popular that applicants have begun sneaking hidden messages to chatbots inside their resumes – in an effective attempt to introduce automated job screening to have a better chance at an interview.

I brought in Kangjun Chiu, CEO of AI startup Imbue who watches the industry closely, to help me parse all of this. Kanjun has been a founder and investor in the technology space, and her perspective on AI and the broader technology industry in general is very unique. She believes the biggest question about the AI ​​industry today is whether it will resemble the more open, user-centered vision of the early Internet or the closed, walled-garden approach of the Social Web.

So I wanted to talk to Kanjun about the week’s top AI stories to understand what’s really happening, why it’s happening, and the social implications of it all.

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