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AlphaGo’s defeat of Lee Sedol post-mortem: Will AI kill human motivation?
AlphaGo v. Lee Sedol During March 9 through March 15, 2016, Google DeepMind’s AlphaGo AI program defeated the 18-time world champion Lee Sedol at the ancient board game Go in Seoul, South Korea. The event was a cause cé·lè·bre in Asia, drawing, in a live broadcast, reportedly over 100 million viewers. AlphaGo won 4 of… Read more
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Artist Sarah Anderson files first amended complaint in copyright suit v. AI cos.
Judge Orrick dismissed a number of the claims in Sarah Anderson’s proposed class action suit against Stability AI and other AI companies on Oct. 30, 2024. In sum, Judge Orrick ruled: This week, Anderson filed her First Amended Complaint to address the court’s reasons for dismissal, such as the need to identify specific works allegedly… Read more
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Elon Musk: By time copyright lawsuits are decided, we’ll have a digital god. [Video]
Elon Musk was interviewed by Andrew Ross Sorkin yesterday. One interesting exchange was over the copyright lawsuits against AI companies. Here’s what Musk said: Elon Musk: I don’t know except to say that, by the time these lawsuits are decided, we’ll have a digital god. We’ll have a digital god at that point. These lawsuits… Read more
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OpenAI Sam Altman defends training AI to learn from copyrighted works, but open to compensation to artists
In a fascinating interview before the OpenAI Board brouhaha, Sam Altman discussed the controversy over training AI models on copyrighted works without permission of the authors and artists. Kevin Roose: Sam, I want to ask you about something else that people are not happy about when it comes to these language uh and image models… Read more
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Master List of lawsuits v. AI, ChatGPT, OpenAI, Microsoft, Meta, Midjourney & other AI cos.
We’ve compiled a running list of the lawsuits filed against AI companies, including OpenAI and ChatGPT. Read more