The Algorithm Age

A US judge on Wednesday handed Meta a victory over authors who accused the tech giant of violating copyright law by training Llama artificial intelligence on their creations without permission. District Court Judge Vince Chhabria in San Francisco ruled that Meta's use of the works to train its AI model was "transformative" enough to constitute "fair use" under copyright law, in the second such courtroom triumph for AI firms this week. However, it came with a caveat that the authors could have pitched a winning argument that by training powerful generative AI with copyrighted works, tech firms are creating a tool that could let a sea of users compete with them in the literary marketplace. "No matter how transformative (generative AI) training may be, it's hard to imagine that it can be fair use to use copyrighted books to develop a tool to make billions or trillions of dollars while enabling the creation of a potentially endless stream of com...

The future of the OpenAI-Microsoft partnership—one of the most storied in tech history—hinges in part on the meaning of an amorphous AI buzzword that divides many in the industry. The contract between the tech partners, who have been locked in acrimonious negotiations , stipulates that when OpenAI’s systems reach “artificial general intelligence,” or AGI, the startup will be able to limit Microsoft’s access to its future technology. Microsoft is fighting hard to prevent that. Many AI experts see AGI as the point at which generative AI systems achieve humanlike intelligence, but OpenAI and Microsoft are at odds over the issue. OpenAI executives including Sam Altman believe they are close to being able to declare that their AI tools have achieved the AGI level of proficiency, according to people familiar with the matter. Microsoft Chief Executive Satya Nadella has expressed skepticism that reaching such a benchmark is possible. Their disagreement mirrors a debate among Si...

The Brief MySALT AI, a new platform developed by David Baird and Eric Lightheart, aims to build trust between users and artificial intelligence. The creators are offering free, limited-time access to their platform, which acts as a personal AI "vault" for user information, designed to protect privacy. MySALT AI allows users to develop ideas into software, offering a unique, personalized AI experience with avatars and "job" capabilities without selling user data. (FOX 2) - The artificial intelligence shift is here, ready or not. We're already using AI in so many ways – from Siri on iPhones to Gemini on Androids – and even on your social media algorithms, but tapping into the full capabilities of what AI can do for you is intimidating and risky. The inventors of MySALT AI say their platform is different. So different, in fact, they're giving us free access. David Baird and Eric Lightheart developed...