October 3, 2023
AI continues to spread. This month, the AI category is limited to developments about AI itself; tools for AI programming are covered in the Programming section.
One of the biggest issues for AI these days is legal. Getty Images is protecting customers who use their generative AI from copyright lawsuits; Microsoft is doing the same for users of their Copilot products.
Also on the legal front: Hashicorp’s switch to a non-open source license has led the OpenTF foundation to build OpenTofu, a fork of Hashicorp’s Terraform product. While it’s too early to say, OpenTofu has quickly gotten some significant adopters.
Artificial Intelligence
- OpenAI has announced that ChatGPT will support voice chats. Will its voice persona be as verbose and obsequious as its text persona?
- Getty Image has announced a generative image creation model that has been trained exclusively on images for which Getty owns the copyright. Getty will reimburse customers’ legal costs if they are sued for copyright infringement. Getty is compensating artists for the use of their work.
- Sony and Meta have developed new ways to measure racial bias in computer vision. Sony has developed a two dimensional model for skin tone that accounts for hue in addition to darkness. Meta has released an open source dataset named FACET for testing AI models.
- The Toyota Research Institute has built robots with ...
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