Summary For Grimes, AI voice cloning is fine as long as she can benefit from it. And she may be on to something. The popular Canadian singer made her proposal on Twitter: she would share 50 percent of her royalties for any successful AI song created with her voice. Since she is not tied to …
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Summary Google Brain and Deepmind form Google Deepmind, with a new focus on developing large-scale multimodal models. Deepmind was founded in 2010 by Demis Hassabis and Shane Legg. The company was acquired by Google in 2014, but has remained largely independent of Google. In March, The Information reported that Google’s in-house AI team, Google Brain, …
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Summary Following Italy, German data protection authorities are now also dealing with ChatGPT. The federal state data protection commissioners have jointly initiated an administrative procedure. “If personal data is used, including as training data for AI, there must be a legal basis,” Dieter Kugelmann, head of the German AI task force, told Tagesspiegel. “We have …
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Summary AI applications are spreading rapidly and can have a major impact on our lives. How are policymakers dealing with it? From freelancers losing clients, graphic designers taking legal action, IT students questioning their future careers, to a Harvard professor accused of sexual harassment by ChatGPT, there is no question that AI has arrived in …
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Summary Update, April 19, 2023: Bloomberg reports on an initial test of ChatGPT by Japan’s Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. The chatbot is designed to simplify documents and make them more accessible. Specifically, ChatGPT will help update online manuals for filling out applications for subsidies and public assistance. This is said to involve thousands …
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Summary As ChatGPT begins to seep into our digital infrastructure, we should take its vulnerabilities seriously, warns developer Simon Willison. OpenAI’s ChatGPT plugins, Auto-GPT, Google’s Bard, or Microsoft’s Bing and Office 365 Co-Pilot: large language models are leaving the chatbox and starting to permeate our digital infrastructure. They are becoming AI assistants that write emails …
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Newsletter OpenAssistant is supposed to become a real open-source alternative to OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Now first models, training data, and code are available. The OpenAssistant project started in December, shortly after OpenAI released ChatGPT. The goal is to create an open-source AI assistant with the same capabilities. To that end, the team spent months collecting a …
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Summary In February, the 3D database Sketchfab introduced a NoAI tag for authors. But that was too late, as it now turns out. The latest variant of generative AI models such as DALL-E 2, Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, ChatGPT, or recently GPT-4 brought a rude awakening: AI models for images, text, and code have the potential …
Summary Italy sets a deadline for OpenAI and conditions for the reinstatement of ChatGPT in Italy. Some of these conditions could pose significant challenges for OpenAI. OpenAI has until April 30th to meet the conditions set by the Italian data protection authority “Garante”, or provide the prospect of meeting them. This includes implementing age verification …
EU data protection poses major challenges for OpenAI and ChatGPT Read More »
Summary Added statement from Sam Altman Update April 1, 2023: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman responded to the Italian privacy watchdog’s request on Twitter: His company will “of course defer” to the Italian government and will no longer offer ChatGPT in Italy, effective immediately. However, OpenAI expects to comply with all privacy laws, Altman said. Original …
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