From CEO Sundar Pichai, on Alphabet’s Q1 2023 earnings call:
We’ll share updates at Google I/O about how we are using AI across our products, including our Pixel devices, and share some exciting new developments for Android.
I/O is taking place on May 10th. You can read more about the company’s earnings in my article.
The fine folks at Protos had a little talk with Binance’s AI bot and... listen, parting chumps from their money is a novel way to monetize AI.
Schools are getting to grips with the impact of AI language models like ChatGPT, and UC Berkeley School of Law is one of the first to adopt formal rules, reports Reuters.
They’re pretty unsurprising: students can use AI for research but not to help write submitted assignments. With detection software unreliable, though, the whole thing is still a matter of trust.
The Supreme Court has declined a petition from computer scientist Stephen Thaler to consider whether artificial intelligence systems can be awarded patents. That leaves Thaler with an appeals court and federal court’s earlier answer of “no.”
The US Patent and Trademark Office and a federal judge in Virginia rejected his patent applications for the inventions on the grounds that [Thaler’s AI system] DABUS is not a person. The patent-focused US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld those decisions last year and said US patent law unambiguously requires inventors to be human beings.
Sorry, DABUS.
In a statement provided to CNN, Die Aktuelle says it has fired its editor-in-chief after running the tabloid for over a decade. Last week, Schumacher’s family threatened to sue the magazine after it claimed it spoke with the F1 legend for the first time since he suffered a brain injury in 2013.
Earlier this month, Chinese officials drafted rules enforcing AI that “should reflect the core values of socialism.” As The New York Times reports today, the country’s attempts to spin up its own generative AI creates a dilemma for the CCP, pitting its desire to control information against its ability to be a technological leader.
[The New York Times]
Microsoft has added support for LaTeX markup, or the system that neatly displays mathematical equations for documents. I’m not going to pretend I’m an expert in LaTeX or anything, but you can get a good idea of how Bing uses it in the GIF below.
The company is the latest to demand payment for training data, following Reddit and various publishers around the world. Wired has the story:
“Community platforms that fuel LLMs absolutely should be compensated for their contributions so that companies like us can reinvest back into our communities to continue to make them thrive,” Stack Overflow’s Chandrasekar says. “We’re very supportive of Reddit’s approach.”
