Author: Computerworld
A new online tool allows users to identify, track and learn about the legal status of training data sets for generative AI, and a quick glance shows that many may have licensing issues.The tool, dubbed the Data Provenance Explorer, is the result of a joint effort between machine learning and legal experts from MIT, generative AI API provider Cohere, and 11 other organizations — Harvard Law School, Carnegie Mellon University and Apple are all among the contributors. The Data Provenance Explorer lets researchers, journalists and anyone else search through thousands of AI training databases and trace the “lineage” of widely…
In the decades I’ve been writing about technology, I’ve never seen a something take off as fast as generative AI – or seen anything so hyped.The promises about how genAI will change our lives have come fast and furious. It will write the Great American Novel, compose symphonies, steal millions of jobs. It will do our work for us, help authoritarian regimes spread misinformation, and ultimately become an existential threat to humankind.The claims have been outrageous. But unlike many overhyped technologies, genAI has proven it can bring in significant revenue. Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, recently…
Apple is working with a variety of large US corporations, including Nike, to launch the Clean Energy Procurement Academy. It’s an attempt to empower other companies with the technical knowledge they need (and Apple has) to adopt clean energy and support supply chain decarbonization.Supply chains account for more than 50% of global greenhouse gas emissions, so it makes sense to attempt to decarbonize that sector. Apple maintains some leadership in its own attempts at decarbonization, and has increased the use of renewable electricity across its supply chain by almost 30% in 2022.We do need some educationApple and Nike got the…
Technologists are helping artists fight back against what they see as intellectual property (IP) theft by generative artificial intelligence (genAI) tools whose training algorithms automatically scrape the internet and other places for content.The fight over what constitutes fair use of content found online is at the heart of what has been an ongoing court battle. The fight goes beyond artwork to whether genAi companies like Microsoft and its partner, OpenAI, can incorporate software code and other published content into their models.Software engineers, many from university computer science departments, have taken the fight into their own hands. Digital “watermarks” are one option created to…
ChatGPT-creator OpenAI is readying a team to prevent what the company calls frontier AI models from starting a nuclear war and other threats. “We believe that frontier AI models, which will exceed the capabilities currently present in the most advanced existing models, have the potential to benefit all of humanity. But they also pose increasingly severe risks,” the company said in a blog post.The team, dubbed Preparedness, which Aleksander Madry will lead, will look to minimize risks posed by these continuously evolving AI models it added.These “catastrophic” risks include individualized persuasion, cybersecurity, chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear threats, and autonomous…
From tomorrow, the UK government is hosting the first global AI Safety Summit, bringing together about 100 people from industry and government to develop a shared understanding of the emerging risks of leading-edge AI while unlocking its benefits. The event will be held at Bletchley Park, a site in Milton Keynes that became the home of code breakers during World War II and saw the development of Colossus, the world’s first programmable digital electronic computer, used to decrypt the Nazi Party’s Enigma code, shortening the war by at least two years.“AI will bring new knowledge, new opportunities for economic growth, new advances…
Apple’s Scary Fast launch event takes place later today spookily late as Japan wakes up to Halloween morning— so what so we expect? We’ve been keeping tabs on Apple; here’s what we think is coming.Chinese energyThe biggest evidence so far comes from a Chinese regulatory database for batteries. The news here is that two Apple suppliers recently re-submitted filings for existing Apple products: 14-in. MacBook Pro. 16-in. MacBook Pro. Magic Keyboard for the Mac. iPad mini. The speculation is these battery filings have been updated in preparation for new versions of those products, presumably equipped with new batteries. The filings don’t…
The launch of a major Windows 10 update isn’t the end of a process — it’s really just the beginning. As soon as one of Microsoft’s feature updates (such as Windows 10 version 22H2) is released, the company quickly gets to work on improving it by fixing bugs, releasing security patches, and occasionally adding new features.In this story we summarize what you need to know about each update released to the public for the most recent versions of Windows 10 — versions 22H2 and 21H2. (Microsoft releases updates for those two versions together.) For each build, we’ve included the date…