A coalition of major music and other organizations announced the launch of the Human Artistry Campaign, which is seeking to make sure AI technologies are created and utilized "in ways that support human culture and artistry — and not ways that replace or erode it." The campaign was announced at Thursday's SXSW in Austin, Texas. It supports, among other ideas, that copyright should protect only the "unique value of human intellectual creativity." More: - Members include the Recording Industry Association of America, the European Composer and Songwriter Alliance, the NFL Players Association, SAG-AFTRA, the Artist Rights Alliance, and others.
- The coalition shared its principles for AI best practices.
- It's asking people to sign an online petition supporting the seven principles, which state that "Technology has long empowered human expression, and AI will be no different" and "Human-created works will continue to play an essential role in our lives."
- The principles also emphasize that using copyrighted works and the voices of human performers requires licensing and adherence to laws, among other beliefs.
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told ABC News that he is worried AI models could fuel "large-scale disinformation" as well as cyber-attacks. He admitted that AI "is going to eliminate a lot of current jobs," but people "can make much better ones." More: - Altman made the comments during an interview with Rebecca Jarvis, ABC News' chief business, technology, and economics correspondent.
- He told Jarvis that when it comes to AI, "we've got to be careful here," adding, "I think people should be happy that we are a little bit scared of this."
- When asked why he was scared, Altman said that if he wasn't, "you should either not trust me or be very unhappy that I'm in this job."
- Despite the potential harms, he said AI could be "the greatest technology humanity has yet developed."
GPT-4: - The CEO discussed OpenAI's new GPT-4 large language model, acknowledging that it's "not perfect" but did score high on the bar exam and SAT math test and can write code in most programming languages.
- Altman said the language model is a "tool that is very much in human control" since it waits for the user to prompt it with an input.
- However, there will be those "who don't put some of the safety limits that we put on," he said, apparently referring to OpenAI.
- "Society, I think, has a limited amount of time to figure out how to react to that, how to regulate that, how to handle it," he added.
A reasoning engine: - Altman also cautioned people about the models' "hallucinations," in which they "confidently state things as if they were facts that are entirely made up."
- He said it's more correct to view the models as "reasoning engines," not as fact databases.
- Facts are "not really what's special about them," he said, adding that "what we want them to do is something closer to the ability to reason, not to memorize."
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Rolls-Royce will shut down its AI venture known as the R2 Factory after it failed to find a buyer, according to the Financial Times. R2 Factory was created a year ago out of the British engineering company's AI and data analytics unit. More: - According to FT, talks with two possible buyers for R2 failed to come to fruition.
- Rolls-Royce attributed the shutdown to the "tough economic environment and embryonic nature of the business."
- R2 Factory launched as an offshoot of R2 Data Labs, its data unit that relies on AI, ML, and analytics to boost efficiency across its businesses and supply chains.
- R2 Factory was designed to provide similar service to Rolls-Royce's bigger industrial customers, according to FT.
- While the company has planned a spin-off of the business, it began discussions with possible buyers late last year ahead of the arrival of new CEO Tufan Erginbilgic, who has embarked on a strategic review of the company.
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 Microsoft has added a new button to Bing Chat that lets users share the AI chatbot's responses on social media. The button generates links to share on Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest, as well as email, according to a company blog post today. More: - In addition, users can create a persistent link, or permalink, that links directly to the original Bing Chat window showing the chatbot response.
- Those who click on the permalink can interact with that shared answer, essentially continuing their own conversation with the chatbot.
- However, this appears to only work for those who use Microsoft Edge and are signed in to their Microsoft account for the Bing Chat preview, The Verge reported.
Zoom out: - Microsoft also unveiled other updates for Bing Chat. For example, it recently added the chatbot and a compose feature to the Edge browser sidebar.
- The company said it also upgraded Bing's ability to take in more context during the bot's "creative" tone conversations. The other two "tones" that people can select for the chatbot's responses are "precise" and "balanced."
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Computer scientist Stephen Thaler has filed a petition for the U.S. Supreme Court to review his case claiming that AI systems can qualify as inventors under patent law. Thaler wants the high court to reverse a Federal Circuit decision, which ruled that AI systems cannot hold patents on their inventions because they aren't "natural people." More: - Thaler has argued that his AI system named DABUS, or "Device for the Autonomous Bootstrapping of Unified Science," should be listed as an inventor on patents.
- Thaler says the AI machine invented two devices, an insulating food container and a flashing light for emergencies.
- In his Supreme Court petition, Thaler wrote that denying patents to AI systems "curtails our patent system's ability — and thwarts Congress's intent — to optimally stimulate innovation and technological progress."
- Last August, U.S. Circuit Judge Leonard Stark ruled that inventors can only be human beings under the U.S. Patent Act.
- The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit later turned down Thaler's request for a rehearing. At the time, Thaler's attorney said they planned to appeal the case to the Supreme Court.
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Weekly roundup — The other top AI stories you might have missed this week: - Anthropic, an AI startup known for its chatbot Claude, announced raising $300M in funding at a pre-investment valuation of $4.1B. Google previously invested $300M to $400M in Anthropic in late 2022, gaining a 10% stake in the startup.
- The Netherlands' Mauritshuis museum is facing criticism for featuring an AI-created portrait inspired by Johannes Vermeer's "Girl with a Pearl Earring." Berlin-based digital artist Julian van Dieken said he used the Midjourney AI tool and Photoshop to create his work, "A Girl With Glowing Earrings."
- Google said it would add generative AI capabilities to Gmail, Google Docs, and other Workspace apps. The AI features will begin rolling out to a limited number of U.S. testers this month. Testers will be able to ask Gmail's AI to automatically draft an email or use AI in Docs to polish meeting summaries, for example.
- LinkedIn is adding more AI features to its platform, including the ability to suggest text for a user's profile. The company is also testing an AI tool that speeds up the process of writing job descriptions.
- Microsoft announced plans to incorporate an AI assistant into its 365 apps, including Outlook, Word, and Powerpoint. The company on Thursday unveiled Microsoft 365 Copilot, an upcoming tool that will help users automate some tasks in the apps.
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 |  | Beth is a writer and editor at Inside.com covering artificial intelligence and daily technology news. She has written the Inside AI newsletter since 2019. You can reach her at Beth.Duckett@inside.com. |   | | Editor | Aaron Crutchfield is based in the high desert of California. Over the last two decades, he has spent time writing and editing at various local newspapers and defense contractors in California. When he's not working, he can often be found looking at the latest memes with his kids or working on his 1962 and 1972 Fords. | |
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