Last September, Mira Murati unexpectedly left her job as chief technology officer of OpenAI, saying, “I want to create the time and space to do my own exploration.” The rumor in Silicon Valley was that she was stepping down to start her own company. Today she announced that indeed she is the CEO of a new public benefit corporation called Thinking Machines Lab. Its mission is to develop top-notch AI with an eye toward making it useful and accessible.
Murati believes there’s a serious gap between rapidly advancing AI and the public’s understanding of the technology. Even sophisticated scientists don’t have a firm grasp on AI’s capabilities and limitations. Thinking
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