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More than 9,000 authors have signed an open letter to leading tech firms expressing concern over how they’re using their copyrighted work to train AI-powered chatbots. Sent by the Authors Guild to CEOs of OpenAI, Alphabet, Meta, Stability AI, IBM, and Microsoft, the letter calls attention to what it describes as “the inherent injustice in exploiting our works as part of your AI systems without our consent, credit, or compensation.” Signed by famous novelists such as Dan Brown, James Patterson, Jennifer Egan, David…

Image: rarrarorro (Shutterstock)The AI gold rush is showing no signs of slowing down. As ChatGPT continues to enamor the world with its strings of relatively coherent text, Apple is looking for its piece of the pie by developing its own artificial intelligence engine.Why is Everyone Suing AI Companies? | Future TechBloomberg’s ever-reliable Mark Gurman reported today that Apple has constructed its own internal infrastructure upon which itwill build large language models to compete against the likes of OpenAI’s ChatGPT,…

P.9 recto of the Heege Manuscript. ‘Red herring’ appears 3-4 lines from the bottom of the page. Credit: National Library of ScotlandAn unprecedented record of medieval live comedy performance has been identified in a 15th-century manuscript. These boisterous texts – which include jests at the expense of kings, priests, and peasants; advocate for audience inebriation; and surprise them with physical comedy – provide fresh insights into the renowned British sense of humor and the significant role minstrels held in medieval…

Image Source : META Meta's new AI model Llama 2 challenges ChatGPT and Bard In a big move towards open innovation in the AI space, Meta, the parent company of Facebook, has introduced Llama 2, the next generation of its open-source large language model. Llama 2 is designed to rival other prominent language models like ChatGPT from OpenAI and Google's Bard but with a…

The use of ChatGPT, Bard and other AI tools has become quite common these days. While there’s no denying how easy it renders some tasks, there are questions about authenticity and credibility of the data it generates. Keeping this in mind, several organisations have banned the use of AI tools. Joining the ranks of such organisations is US-based media organisation National Public Radio, better known as NPR. What NPR has to say about use of AI toolsAccording to a tweet by a New York Times journalist, an email was sent to…

Google may soon be facing fresh legal action over copyright issues from the owner of the Daily Mail. The search engine allegedly has illegally taken hundreds of thousands of the newspaper’s articles to train its ChatGPT rival, Bard. Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT), the publishing house owned by Lord Rothermere, has reportedly already sought legal advice and is preparing to officially file a lawsuit against Google imminently, according to the Telegraph. Why we care. As Pierre Far explained in Crawlers, search…

There are dangers associated with AI models, and this Google Bard security flaw highlights some. The flaw that Bard possesses allows some bad actors to get a bit more creative while phishing. This sounds scary, but some cybersecurity experts have already put the flaw to the test and the results are shocking. With big tech companies navigating into the AI industry, there is a constant security concern. How do these companies train their AI models and what sort of information is attainable from them? Are these tools just…

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If you have woken up to people celebrating ‘AI appreciation day' and are confused about what it is all about, then you are at the right place. Artificial intelligence has come up in a big way this year. While the field of AI has existed for a long time, the hype around the subject among people started in real earnest in November 2022, when OpenAI made its AI-powered chatbot ChatGPT, a generative AI model, open to the public. Ever since then, this particular branch of AI has grown exponentially with big tech companies…

Photo: Alex Gukalov (Shutterstock)A couple in Morrison, Colorado recently used ChatGPT to officiate their wedding and craft numerous speeches. The couple, who were reportedly in a rush to complete the ceremony before Deyton Truitt, the husband, deployed for the Army. ChatGPT was reportedly used to plan just about every part of the wedding, from the welcoming to the closing remarks. The couple did opt to write their own vows and had to have one of their parents sign the wedding license since AI systems aren’t recognized as…