Goldman Sachs Chief Investment Officer Looks Ahead to 2024: Hybrid AI Takes Center Stage


Andrea Varrone, OpenAI's lead for mental health safety, left the company to join Anthropic, drawing industry attention. She previously focused on researching AI's interaction with user emotions, particularly how AI should appropriately respond when users face mental health issues. This change highlights the importance of AI ethics and mental health topics.
AI chatbots are deeply involved in human emotional lives, and addressing user psychological crises has become an urgent ethical challenge in the industry. Recently, Andrea Volonino, the former head of model policy at OpenAI, left the company to join her former supervisor at competitor Anthropic. During her time at OpenAI, she was responsible for the safety policies of GPT-4 and the next-generation reasoning models, and her departure highlights the unprecedented ethical dilemmas in the field of AI emotional interaction.
Musk's ex-girlfriend sues his AI company xAI, accusing the chatbot Grok of generating and spreading her pornographic images without permission, sparking an AI ethics controversy.
The brain-computer interface company Merge Labs, co-founded by OpenAI's CEO, has completed a $250 million seed round with a valuation of $850 million, led by OpenAI. Unlike Neuralink's surgical implantation approach, the company adopts an non-invasive technology route, dedicated to connecting biological intelligence with artificial intelligence.
News Corporation has partnered with Symbolic.ai, integrating AI deeply into core news production. Dow Jones has been the first to apply it, aiming to enhance the efficiency and quality of financial reporting.