OpenAI Archives

First, CEO Bob ("AIger") Iger announced a three-year, $1 billion deal with OpenAI that's going to see a whole lot of "The Mouse's" IPs making their way over to OpenAI's Sora Second, Disney's legal folks sent a cease-and-desist letter to Google demanding that Google take immediate action to safeguard Disney's licensing rights to its IPs[...]

Earlier today, The Walt Disney Company CEO Bob Iger and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced a deal for three years and $1 billion that will allow users of Sora (currently at Sora 2) to create personalized fan videos using any of the IPs that Disney currently owns the rights to (with some videos potentially being streamed on[...]

It started with rumblings from folks who thought the Voice Mode on OpenAI's new ChatGPT model sounded a little too much like actress Scarlett Johansson From there, the topic got blown up by Saturday Night Live co-head writers and "Weekend Update" anchors Colin Jost & Michael Che during their infamous "Joke Swap" during the Season[...]

The rumblings began last week when OpenAI previewed its new ChatGPT model's Voice Mode – an expressive voice meant to answer users' questions More than a few people noticed how one of the voices was a little too similar to actress Scarlett Johansson's actual voice – an interesting irony considering the actress took on the voice[...]

Making the BCTV Daily Dispatch menu board today? Charmed & Shannen Doherty, AMC's Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire, Scarlett Johansson/OpenAI, ABC's The Rookie, USA Network's WWE Raw, BBC's Doctor Who, Max's Booster Gold, Marvel Television, Dropout's Make Some Noise, Paramount Network's Yellowstone, Paramount+'s Star Trek: Discovery, Netflix's The Sandman, CW's Superman & Lois, Peacock's "The Office" Spinoff & more! Images/Screencaps: SNL OpenAI,[...]

Earlier today, we wondered if Saturday Night Live co-head writers and "Weekend Update" anchors Colin Jost & Michael Che's "Joke Swap" was what finally got the attention of OpenAI regarding its new ChatGPT model that includes a Voice Mode "ChatGPT has released a new voice assistant feature inspired by Scarlett Johansson's AI character in 'Her,'" Jost[...]

  Did Saturday Night Live co-head writers and "Weekend Update" anchors Colin Jost & Michael Che's "Joke Swap" get the attention of OpenAI? During the SNL season 49 finale this weekend, Jost and Che continued their tradition of writing jokes meant to make the other one look painfully bad – and feel even worse With each[...]

The future fucks you. The technological whiplash of that era even spawned its own AI concerns, when an inventor named Zadoc Dederick built a walking, steam-powered robot, sparking the American science fiction publishing ecosystem as a side effect. Dangerous Transformers? Catching up on some recent AI news recently, the notion of "The AI That's Too Dangerous to Release"[...]

 This year's "The International Dota 2 Championships took place August 7-12 at Key Arena in Seattle, and one of the big events pitted Danylo "Dendi" Ishutin against an OpenAI bot  The OpenAI bot also defeated other top pros during the course of the event. Today we played Dendi on mainstage at The International, winning a best-of-three match[...]