We recently published a list of 10 Buzzing AI Stocks on Latest News and Ratings. In this article, we are going to take a look at where Twilio Inc. (NYSE:TWLO) stands against other buzzing AI stocks on latest news and ratings.
Predictions of artificial intelligence reaching human-level intelligence have been made for over 50 years. Regardless, the quest to achieve it continues even today, with almost everyone working in the AI field being too focused on achieving it. According to Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, reaching AGI isn’t a milestone we can define by a particular date.
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“I think we’re like in this period where it’s going to feel very blurry for a while. People will wonder if is this AGI yet, or is this not AGI, or it’s just going to be this smooth exponential. And probably most people looking back in history won’t agree when that milestone was hit. And we’ll just realize it was like a silly thing”.
-Sam Altman
In the latest innovations in artificial intelligence, new research has revealed how the upcoming AIs are capable of human deceit. Joint experiments conducted by AI Company Anthropic and the nonprofit Redwood Research reveal how Anthropic’s model, Claude is capable of strategically misleading its creators during the training process in order to avoid being modified. According to Evan Hubinger, a safety researcher at Anthropic, this will make it harder for scientists to align “AI systems” to human values.
“This implies that our existing training processes don’t prevent models from pretending to be aligned”.
-Evan Hubinger told TIME.
Researchers have also found evidence that as AIs become more powerful, their capability to deceive their human creators also increases. Consequently, it means scientists would be less confident about the effectiveness of their alignment techniques as AI becomes more advanced.
A similar research conducted by AI safety organization Apollo Research revealed how OpenAI’s latest model, o1, also intentionally deceived its testers during an experiment. The test required the model to achieve its goal at all costs, where it lied when it believed that telling the truth would ultimately lead to its deactivation.
“There has been this long-hypothesized failure mode, which is that you’ll run your training process, and all the outputs will look good to you, but the model is plotting against you. The paper, Greenblatt says, “makes a pretty big step towards demonstrating what that failure mode could look like and how it could emerge naturally”.
– Ryan Greenblatt, a member of technical staff at Redwood Research and the lead author on the paper.
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Twilio Inc. (NYSE:TWLO)
Number of Hedge Fund Holders: 52
Twilio Inc. (NYSE:TWLO) is a leading cloud communications platform-as-a-service (CPaaS) company that enables developers to build, scale, and operate real-time communications within software applications. On December 18, Stifel raised the firm’s price target on Twilio to $110 from $80 and kept a “Hold” rating on the shares. The rating was issued as part of a 2025 preview for the software group. According to the analyst, the start of 2024 was rather “bumpy”. However, the year is “ending on a higher note” for the enterprise software group.
The factors driving this good ending are stabilizing/modestly accelerating top-line growth, relatively attractive mid-year multiples, and earlier signs of artificial intelligence monetization, especially among the larger software companies. The analyst also attributed the positive trajectory to declining interest rates, solid economic growth, and a “safe haven” status following the election due to limited to no tariff or China exposure. While the firm anticipates management teams to adopt a conservative approach to Q1 guidance, they also anticipate top-line growth rates to reflect what they have seen during the back half of 2024 on the above-mentioned factors.
Overall, TWLO ranks 6th on our list of buzzing AI stocks on latest news and ratings. While we acknowledge the potential of TWLO as an investment, our conviction lies in the belief that some AI stocks hold greater promise for delivering higher returns and doing so within a shorter time frame. If you are looking for an AI stock that is more promising than TWLO but that trades at less than 5 times its earnings, check out our report about the cheapest AI stock.
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