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San Francisco Chronicle
6 hours ago
- San Francisco Chronicle
Jason Schwartzman, Luca Guadagnino spotted filming OpenAI movie in S.F. park
' Artificial,' the forthcoming film about San Francisco company OpenAI, has been filming around the city this week, and fans have been running into the production crew all over town. The $40 million project follows CEO Sam Altman's firing and rehiring at the artificial intelligence company in 2023. The drama is helmed by ' Challengers ' director Luca Guadagnino and stars Andrew Garfield (' The Social Network ') as Altman, Mill Valley-raised Monica Barbaro (' A Complete Unknown ') as former Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati and Ike Barinholtz ('The Studio') as tech billionaire Elon Musk. Scenes were filmed at Dolores Park on Wednesday, July 30, according to a Reddit user who shared photos of Yura Borisov (' Anora ') and Jason Schwartzman (' Mountainhead ') filming a scene on a bench. In the photos, Borisov wore a grey T-shirt and long necklace, both featuring the OpenAI logo, while Schwartzman was dressed in a red hoodie. Guadagnino was also spotted at the park. Other social media users reported seeing filming notices from the company Eternal Leo Productions around the park listed for Tuesday, July 29, through Thursday, July 31. Notices were also spotted in North Beach and the Marina District. Various casting calls for stand-in roles in 'Artificial' were found online for actors including Barinholtz and Cooper Hoffman ('Saturday Night') — Hoffman plays OpenAI President Greg Brockman. The roles were posted last week, with the final shoot dates wrapping up Friday, Aug. 1. The Chronicle has reached out to the San Francisco Film Commission for comment. Production company Eternal Leo is located at the same Southern California address as Amazon MGM Studios, which is working on 'Artificial.' A job listing for two office assistants shared by Film SF last week confirms that Eternal Leo is shooting a feature film in San Francisco. The city has been a hotspot over the past few months, with several productions filming in various neighborhoods. Earlier this month, 'The Steel Harp' shot scenes at the Seal Rock Inn Restaurant and Golden Gate Bridge, according to social media. Little information has been released about the project, but Mayor Daniel Lurie shared a video of a conversation he had with the film's co-director Alex Thompson in which he confirms the project's San Francisco setting. In May, Olivia Wilde and Seth Rogen surprised BART riders during rush hour when they filmed scenes at Glen Park Station for their upcoming romantic comedy, 'The Invite.'
Business Insider
11 hours ago
- Business Insider
This startup built privacy tech for Sam Altman's eye-scanning project. Read the pitch deck it used to raise $5.5 million.
Taceo has built software for organizations to use data collaboratively without decrypting it. The startup developed the tech to keep millions of iris scans private for Sam Altman's World. This is the pitch deck the Austrian startup used to raise funding from Archetype VC, A16z, and others. An Austrian startup that has built encryption software to share private data without decrypting it has raised $5.5 million in seed funding from investors including A16z and Archetype VC. Taceo, founded in 2022, has created software that lets companies verify or compute information without decrypting it. That could help payment providers verify transactions or hospitals collaborate on clinical trials without sharing patient data, the startup said. "They can run the algorithms on our encrypted data without prying on us, but still delivering the service that we find so useful," Lukas Helminger, the cofounder and CEO, told Business Insider. The startup has combined two encryption techniques to create a cryptographic tool called coSNARKs. Its code is open source, Helminger said, but runs on a cryptographic network that it plans to charge customers a usage-based fee or, in some cases, a flat rate to access. In 2022, Taceo built the encryption software for World, Sam Altman's iris-scanning verification startup. The partnership came about after the team met representatives for World, then called WorldCoin, at a blockchain conference at Stanford University. Taceo's software is encrypting the biometric data of over 14 million people using World, which uses eyeball-scanning orbs to prove people's identity. "This is like a mix between Silicon Valley and German engineering," Helminger told BI, adding that Taceo gets some revenue from the partnership with World. Helminger told BI that the startup plans to use the fresh capital to grow its team from 12 to between 18 and 20 people, and double down on R&D to address the computational challenges associated with encrypting information for AI. Over the next six to 12 months, Taceo will target customers in financial services, Helminger said. The startup's longer-term bet is to deploy its technology for AI use cases, which Helminger called "one of the toughest nuts to crack because it's so computation-heavy." Archetype VC led Taceo's $5.5 million seed round. The startup also received funding from A16z CSX, the investment firm's crypto startup accelerator, along with a_capital, and Polymorphic Capital. Here's the 19-page pitch deck Taceo used. Taceo Taceo Taceo Taceo Taceo Taceo Taceo Taceo Taceo Taceo Taceo Taceo Taceo Taceo Taceo Taceo Taceo Taceo Taceo
Yahoo
12 hours ago
- Yahoo
OpenAI's CEO says he's scared of GPT-5
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said testing GPT-5 left him scared in a recent interview He compared GPT-5 to the Manhattan Project He warned that the rapid advancement of AI is happening without sufficient oversight OpenAI chief Sam Altman has painted a portrait of GPT‑5 that reads more like a thriller than a product launch. In a recent episode of the This Past Weekend with Theo Von podcast, he described the experience of testing the model in breathless tones that evoke more skepticism than whatever alarm he seemed to want listeners to hear. Altman said that GPT-5 'feels very fast,' while recounting moments when he felt very nervous. Despite being the driving force behind GPT-5's development, Altman claimed that during some sessions, he looked at GPT‑5 and compared it to the Manhattan Project. Altman also issued a blistering indictment of current AI governance, suggesting 'there are no adults in the room' and that oversight structures have lagged behind AI development. It's an odd way to sell a product promising serious leaps in artificial general intelligence. Raising the potential risks is one thing, but acting like he has no control over how GPT-5 performs feels somewhat disingenuous. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman: "It feels very fast." - "While testing GPT5 I got scared" - "Looking at it thinking: What have we done... like in the Manhattan Project"- "There are NO ADULTS IN THE ROOM" from r/ChatGPT Analysis: Existential GPT-5 fears What spooked Altman isn't entirely clear, either. Altman didn't go into technical specifics. Invoking the Manhattan Project is another over-the-top sort of analogy. Signaling irreversible and potentially catastrophic change and global stakes seems odd as a comparison to a sophisticated auto-complete. Saying they built something they don't fully understand makes OpenAI seem either reckless or incompetent. GPT-5 is supposed to come out soon, and there are hints that it will expand far beyond GPT-4's abilities. The "digital mind" described in Altman's comments could indeed represent a shift in how the people building AI consider their work, but this kind of messianic or apocalyptic projection seems silly. Public discourse around AI has mostly toggled between breathless optimism and existential dread, but something in the middle seems more appropriate. This isn't the first time Altman has publicly acknowledged his discomfort with the AI arms race. He's been on record saying that AI could 'go quite wrong,' and that OpenAI must act responsibly while still shipping useful products. But while GPT-5 will almost certainly arrive with better tools, friendlier interfaces, and a slightly snappier logo, the core question it raises is about power. The next generation of AI, if it's faster, smarter, and more intuitive, will be handed even more responsibility. And that would be a bad idea based on Altman's comments. And even if he's exaggerating, I don't know if that's the kind of company that should be deciding how that power is deployed. You might also like If you think GPT-4o is something, wait until you see GPT-5 – a 'significant leap forward' Rumors of GPT-5 are multiplying as the expected release date approaches AI took a huge leap in IQ, and now a quarter of Gen Z thinks AI is conscious
