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OpenAI's leadership is actively responding to Meta's aggressive recruitment of top AI researchers by promising to improve compensation, recognize talent, and focus on long-term goals like artificial general intelligence, amid intense competition in Silicon Valley for AI talent.
The Mississippi State Fair has released its entertainment lineup, which includes performances by Grammy-nominated country music star Josh Turner, R&B vocalist Cupid, country music artist ERNEST, comedian Rita Brent, and the Commodores. The fair will also host a talent competition to recruit singers for "American Idol," with the final five contestants having the chance to win a VIP executive producer audition.
Jacob Devlin, an AI researcher who left Google for OpenAI in January after criticizing the company's training of its Bard AI chatbot, has returned to his old job at Google. This move highlights the intense competition for talent in the AI field as tech companies and startups race to develop services that automate tasks involving text, software code, and video production.
American Idol fans criticized Katy Perry for "tricking" contestants into thinking they were being sent home during Sunday night's episode. Perry told various Top 24 singers they weren't going through to add "extra drama," before revealing that they were in fact successfully continuing onto the next round. Viewers took to social media to voice their displeasure with the "mean" tactic, with some calling it "psychological warfare."
Country music stars Mickey Guyton, Orville Peck, and Jimmie Allen discuss their struggles with diversity in the industry and how they have overcome them. They are now part of the panel on AppleTV+'s talent competition, My Kind of Country, which is searching for a Nashville star who doesn't fit the typical mold. The show features 12 diverse contestants, including several Black singers and one non-binary artist, hailing from Mexico, India, and South Africa. The scouts believe that change is coming to the country music genre, whether the conservative record executives want it or not.