The @nytimes continues to be trash at covering anything to do with "AI". Thank you, @YaelEisenstat for highlighting this latest installment.
RESEARCH
-
UK Universities Accused of Aiding Iranian Drone Technology Development
By
–
Even though the UK has sanctions on Iran, researchers at a dozen UK universities "have helped the Iranian regime to develop sophisticated technology that can be used in its drone programme and fighter jets." What the beep. "Key pieces of research have been conducted by
-
Multimodal LLMs and reasoning advancement in foundation models
By
–
Good points from @ylecun albeit it may just be a matter of time before we have foundation AI LLM models trained on + taking inputs on a multimodal basis (including video and text). However, logic and reasoning whilst improving with Chain of Thought may still take longer to
-
Zero and Few Shot Recommender Systems with Large Language Models
By
–
Zero and Few Shot Recommender Systems based on Large Language Models https://
bit.ly/42TPcHS #AI #MachineLearning #DeepLearning #LLMs #DataScience -
US, Canada, Europe Race to Lead Advanced AI Development
By
–
It’s a race as to who will lead develop advanced AI first & hence who will lead and shape the future economy. If the US, Canada and Europe can set standards for developing advanced AI and collaborate on sensible data sharing such as policies to scale federated learning with
-
Expert positioning and government policy subtlety in AI debate
By
–
I don't think it's beneficial for experts to take such positions, nor for lawfirms to secure additional business, because the debate has moved beyond that. Even governments are issuing policy statements that have more subtlety to them:
-
Rhetorical Tactics in AI Model Theory Debates
By
–
When arguing against this perspective, make sure you don't mention the idea that a model is a database, or that a model does compression, or you'll fall off the edge of this carefully crafted argument.
-
Defining Expression: Open Questions on Copyright and AI Generative Models
By
–
Beyond that, there are so many open questions. What is an expression? At what point do combinations of statistics no longer represent expressions? At what point does Copyright disappear? This paper doesn't address any of them, yet presents many of its conclusions as facts.
-
AI Hallucination in German Law Analysis Reveals Understanding Gaps
By
–
The analysis of German Law was problematic from the start as the wrong translation was cited. It was a hallucination taken from a third-party blog rather than the original thing. That was fixed, but shows the level of understanding…
-
German Legal Compliance Issues with LAION AI Training Data
By
–
Further, compliance under German Law is subject to a variety of details that haven't been taken into account — in particular in the case of LAION (who funded the work, was opt-out respected, were files deleted). Thus those conclusions about TDM in Europe should be thrown out.