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It’s all too easy to say that creativity is, at its heart, combinatory.   "Chaucer would have thought that literature was about retelling good stories, and not necessarily original ones; The Canterbury Tales steals from many models, ranging from classical literature to Dante. So do Shakespeare’s plays. But in both cases, thinking that these works could come from recombining the original works misses the point. What makes them worth reading isn’t that they’re retellings of old material, it’s what isn’t in the original."  Mike Loukides

Copyright policy is a sticky tricky thing, and there are battles that have been fought for decades among public and corporate interests. Typically, it’s the corporate interests that win — especially the content industry. We’ve seen power, and copyrights, collect among a small group of content companies because of this. But there is one significant win that the public interest has been able to defend all these years: Fair Use.  Matthew Lane: Let's not flip sides on IP maximalism because of AI : Stop trying to bring the "on a computer" problem to copyright... 

Facebook and Instagram are getting some new AI-powered creative tools that will allow users to edit their photographs and produce “high-quality videos” using text descriptions. On Thursday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced two new capabilities built on Emu — the company’s foundation model for image generation — that are being integrated into Facebook and Instagram.  Meta says Emu Edit “precisely follows instructions” to avoid altering anything besides user-specified changes.  

Safety Brakes? Microsoft’s president says he doesn’t think artificial intelligence poses an immediate threat to humanity’s existence, but governments and businesses still need to move faster to address the technology’s risks by implementing what he calls “safety brakes.” They should be built into high-risk AI systems that control critical infrastructure such as electrical grids, water system and traffic.

Extracting Training Data from ChatGPT   "Our attack shows that, by querying the model, we can actually extract some of the exact data it was trained on.) We estimate that it would be possible to extract ~a gigabyte of ChatGPT’s training dataset from the model by spending more money querying the model.  "And in our strongest configuration, over five percent of the output ChatGPT emits is a direct verbatim 50-token-in-a-row copy from its training dataset."

US government investigates Cerebras' UAE-based partner: China could have access to the largest AI chips ever made, supercomputer with 54 million cores ...  "The U.S. government has raised concerns about G42, a United Arab Emirates-based technology holding company building up a network of A.I. supercomputers with massive performance. The company is apparently overseen by Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed of the UAE and has connections with Chinese firms the U.S. considers security threats (such as Huawei). G42 is set to use CS-2 hardware from Cerebras , a company that recently criticized Nvidia for supplying A.I. and HPC GPUs to :arm' Chinese companies, according to a report from the  New York Times ."

The process of finding a shared definition of Open Source AI is only in its infancy.  The Open Source AI Definition needs to cover all AI implementations and not be specific to machine learning, deep learning, computer vision or other branches. That requires using a generic term. For software, the word “program” covers everything, from assembly, interpreted to compiled languages. “AI system” is the equivalent in the context of artificial intelligence.  “Program” is to software as “AI system” is to artificial intelligence.

Teachers are using artificial intelligence (AI) to save time by "automating tasks", says a government report first seen by the BBC. The Department for Education (DfE) report is based on 567 responses to a call for evidence about AI in education, including schools, over the summer. Most submissions were from England. 

"The contemporary condition is that datafication has become essential to value creation and our societies are evermore shaped by large AI systems ( Morozov, 2019 ). Since ML systems, or models, work on translations of quantified phenomena in the world, the value of their learning largely depends on quantity, the amount of data they have. Theoretically if a model is given enough input about its context of operation– in aggregate we assume the surrounding world– then it should give out accurate conditions/outputs about that context– the world– as constructed by those who are in a position of framing in this mathematical, measurable sense."  AI has 99 problems

According to Orosz, Anna Boyle doesn’t exist. She is a fake. “I did more digging and found other fake speakers, going back years,” says Orosz. Two other profiles highlighted by Orosz as fakes are Alina Prokhoda , and Natalie Stadler , the latter featured in last year’s edition of the conference.  Tech industry insiders say fake female speakers were featured in the DevTernity conference lineup to create the illusion of diversity.

"The chief bottleneck in building large AI programs, such as expert systems, is recognized as being knowledge acquisition. There are two major problems to tackle: (1) building tools to facilitate the man-machine interface, and (2) finding ways to dynamically devise an appropriate representation. Much work has focused on the former of these, but our experience with AM and Eurisko indicates that the latter is just as serious a contributor to the bottleneck, especially in building theory formation systems. Thus, our current research is to get Eurisko to automatically extend its vocabulary of slots, to maintain the naturalness of its representation as new (sub)domains are uncovered and explored." Why AM and Eurisko Appear to Work. January 1983 Source:  DBLP  Conference: Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Washington, D.C., August 22-26, 1983. Authors: Douglas B. Lenat ,  Cycorp, Inc. and  John Seely Brown

Outside of Sports Illustrated , Drew Ortiz doesn't seem to exist. He has no social media presence and no publishing history. And even more strangely, his profile photo on Sports Illustrated is for sale on a website that sells AI-generated headshots, where he's described as "neutral white young-adult male with short brown hair and blue eyes." Sports Illustrated Published Articles by Fake, AI-Generated Writers

What to Do When the Ghost in the Machine Is You: Limor Fried’s code is often a de facto standard, and now ChatGPT is using it... Fried: Some people are like, “Oh, so I don’t have to learn how to code.” No. You actually have to learn to code even more, because I would catch errors as [the AI] was going. It would make PDF parsing errors or the PDF would be vague. But it also caught a lot of mistakes that I would not catch. So a recent driver I did has three channels. In some device registers, the bit order is one, two, three. But in this device, the bit order is three, two, one. ChatGPT-4 actually caught that and knew to swap the register bits around. I was like, “Wait, why are you doing that?” And I looked: “Oh, my God. It actually got it right.” Profile of  Limor Fried