Apple's chatbot aiming for AI crown. 8,000+ authors confront AI firms over copyright. China's AI war chest outspending America.
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GM, and happy Thursday! We are over the hump, so why not celebrate by fillin’ that noggin with some AI news?
Here’s what we’ve got for ya today:
Apple brews its own AI brain to take on chatbot rivals
Authors gang up on AI firms, demand payouts for book data
India's coders face wipeout from AI bots, warns startup CEO
Billionaire prodigy warns China racing to dominate AI battlefield
AI News: The Headliners 🏁
1/ Apple brews its own AI brain to take on chatbot rivals
[The News] Apple is cooking up its own AI chatbot, referred to internally as "Apple GPT," to take on players like OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Bard, according to a new Bloomberg scoop.
The tech titan built a framework called Ajax to craft large language models that give the bot its brains. Though not yet public, Apple peeps are tapping the chatbot to prototype products.
[The AI] This Apple chatbot sounds similar to other AI models like ChatGPT in summarizing text and answering questions based on its training.
But so far, there have been no exclusive features that set it apart from the pack. The chatbot was briefly paused over security concerns but has since been given to more Apple geniuses, though access requires VIP status.
[Why This Matters] The report signals Apple is hustling to catch up in generative AI amid sky-high consumer demand.
While Apple has sung privacy praises around AI, this chatbot shows it recognizes the need to compete with Google and other top contenders in this space. The goal seems to be a big reveal in 2023.
Looking forward... It will be fascinating to see Apple's unique spin whenever this AI drops publicly. The company has a flair for slickly baking new technology into its products.
This bot could end up driving helpful AI features across iOS, Mac, Apple Watch, and more. But with privacy top of mind, it may not dazzle like lesser-restricted alternatives.
2/ Authors gang up on AI firms, demand payouts for book data
[The News] Over 8,000 big-shot authors—we're talking Margaret Atwood and James Patterson—signed an open letter calling out AI companies.
They say it's unfair to use their copyrighted books to train artificial intelligence without forking over some dough. So now they want fat compensation checks.
[The AI] The pissed off writers named companies like OpenAI, Meta, Google, and Microsoft for tapping oceans of online data, including copyrighted books, to build giant language models.
This makes systems like ChatGPT seem so darn clever. But using all those books allegedly tramples over copyrights.
[Why This Matters] The pressure is piling up on AI makers over intellectual property disputes. Lawsuits have already been filed, and now thousands of miffed authors want licensing fees and royalties.
This could seriously impact AI training if these demands are enforced.
Looking forward... AI companies will probably need to lawyer up and find ways to properly license copyrighted content, give credit where credit is due, and cut checks to all creators, not just authors.
Striking the right balance between advancing AI and respecting IP rights will be key…tricky stuff that may require new laws down the line.
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AI News: The Shorts 🩳
3/ India's coders face wipeout from AI bots, warns startup CEO
Stability AI head honcho Emad Mostaque dropped a bombshell prediction: most outsourced programmers in India will soon be handed pink slips as AI tools like ChatGPT let companies crank out software with way fewer peeps.
He forecasts India's outsourced coders, up to level three, will be yesterday's news within two years. But in countries like France with strong labor laws, developers are safer from AI's job-stealing clutches.
With over 5 million programmers, India is especially vulnerable to displacement by AI co-pilots that can squash bugs and generate ideas better than humans.
While programming gigs will transform, Mostaque notes that different regions and roles will be impacted differently. All in all, these AI advances are fast-tracking changes to programming and project delivery, diluting the need for old-school coding jobs. Read more here —>
4/ Billionaire prodigy warns China racing to dominate AI battlefield
At just 26 years old, billionaire AI whiz kid Alexandr Wang laid down a grave warning in Congress: China's going full throttle to trounce America as the undisputed AI top dog.
Wang, CEO of hot startup Scale AI, insisted the nation that whips artificial intelligence into military might will dominate future battlefields. While the U.S. still leads in prime AI talent and oceans of defense data, Wang stressed China's holding nothing back, pouring "three times" the government AI funding compared to Uncle Sam.
He spotlighted China's autonomous drones and adaptive radar as evidence they're "investing the full power" of their industrial base. Wang pushed the Pentagon to step up and swiftly prepare data to juice American AI systems, lest complacency lead to "ceding global influence, technology leadership, and democracy" to China's autocratic approach.
Though some theorize U.S.-China AI cooperation, Wang insisted any kumbaya is unlikely: "Their first instinct was to use AI for facial recognition to control their people." Read more here —>
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