On 27 December, The New York Times sued Microsoft and OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, alleging the companies infringed the newspaper’s copyrights in using NYT articles to train ChatGPT without credit, compensation, or permission to the paper.
Tag: AI
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AI SCORES TWO MORE MEDICAL ADVANCES
Artificial intelligence closed 2023 with two more medical advances to its credit.
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NEW AI CAN PREDICT PEOPLE’S LIFE EVENTS
By analyzing detailed data on people’s health and work lives, an AI developed by an international team based at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) has been able to predict major life events and even make a pretty accurate guess about whether a person will die within four years, the developers reported in a recent paper in Nature Computational Science.
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BARD’S ANSWER
This holiday season, in addition to the blessings of time spent with family and good friends, I happened upon an interesting TV chestnut of Christmas past.
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OPEN-SOURCE CHIPS: AN OLD TECHNOLOGY FOR NEW AIs
In the scramble to get hold of enough chips to serve the exploding AI market, companies are falling back on a technology created more than a decade ago.
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IN BREAKTHROUGH AGREEMENT, OpenAI WILL PAY PUBLISHER TO USE CONTENT
In a precedent-setting agreement, Open AI, parent of ChatGPT, will pay publisher Axel Springer to use the news company’s content to train its AI models and to draw on the content to respond to users’ prompts and queries.
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NEW YORK TIMES HIRES ITS FIRST AI EDITOR
The New York Times has hired Zach Seward, co-founder of the tech, business, and lifestyle website Quartz, as its first editorial director for artificial intelligence.
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AI ALLIANCE PRESSES FOR OPEN-SOURCE AI DEVELOPMENT
IBM and Meta Platforms are among more than 50 companies involved in AI development that have come together to form the AI Alliance, a group pushing for “open innovation and open science” in AI development.
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POPE CALLS FOR INTERNATIONAL TREATY GOVERNING AI
Pope Francis has added his voice to the chorus of calls for a binding international agreement to govern AI, urging rules ensuring that the technology is used ethically and reflects the human values of compassion, forgiveness, mercy, and morality.
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META, PLAYING CATCH-UP, ADDS NEW AI FEATURES TO ITS APPS
Meta Platforms, scurrying to catch up with Google, Microsoft, and other major web presences dazzling audiences with AI apps, is testing at least 20 new AI features it’s added to its search tool, advertisements, and other offerings throughout Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp.