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Can The Legal System Protect the Vibe of a Creator

An Amazon influencer earns her income by sharing content from her beige-themed home. However, when she discovered another account promoting the same minimalist aesthetic, it led to an unprecedented lawsuit. The question arises: can the legal system safeguard a creator's vibe? Moreover, what happens if that vibe is considered basic? ...

Her response to Gifford’s suit opens with a quote attributed to Kim Kardashian, though its origin seems dubious: “People only rain on your parade because they’re jealous of your sun and tired of their shade.” It was Gifford that did the copying, Sheil alleges — not her. ...

See the full story here: https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/26/24303161/amazon-influencers-lawsuit-copyright-clean-aesthetic-girl-sydney-nicole-gifford-alyssa-sheil?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

SpaceX: Cellular Starlink Service Is Ready to Go

 SpaceX now has enough satellites in Earth's orbit to offer commercial services for its cellular Starlink system. The company now has over 320 'direct to cell' Starlink satellites in space. The service will work with normal mobile phones without any extra equipment or special apps. SpaceX is partnering with T-Mobile to offer cellular satellite technology to consumers. The company still needs approval from the FCC before it can operate a commercial cellular service.

See the full story here: https://www.pcmag.com/news/spacex-cellular-starlink-service-is-ready-to-go?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

AI can now create a replica of your personality

... Led by Joon Sung Park, a Stanford PhD student in computer science, the team recruited 1,000 people who varied by age, gender, race, region, education, and political ideology. They were paid up to $100 for their participation. From interviews with them, the team created agent replicas of those individuals. As a test of how well the agents mimicked their human counterparts, participants did a series of personality tests, social surveys, and logic games, twice each, two weeks apart; then the agents completed the same exercises. The results were 85% similar.  ...

In the paper the replicas are called simulation agents, and the impetus for creating them is to make it easier for researchers in social sciences and other fields to conduct studies that would be expensive, impractical, or unethical to do with real human subjects. If you can create AI models that behave like real people, the thinking goes, you can use them to test everything from how well interventions on social media combat misinformation to what behaviors cause traffic jams. ...

https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/11/20/1107100/ai-can-now-create-a-replica-of-your-personality/

Anthropic CEO Says Mandatory Safety Tests Needed for AI Models

Anthropic Chief Executive Officer Dario Amodei said artificial intelligence companies, including his own, should be subject to mandatory testing requirements to ensure their technologies are safe for the public before release. 

“I think we absolutely have to make the testing mandatory, but we also need to be really careful about how we do it,” Amodei said in response to a question on the topic Wednesday at an AI safety summit in San Francisco hosted by the US Departments of Commerce and State. ...

“There’s nothing to really verify or ensure the companies are really following those plans in letter of spirit. They just said they will,” Amodei said. “I think just public attention and the fact that employees care has created some pressure, but I do ultimately think it won’t be enough.” ...

See the full article here: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-11-20/anthropic-ceo-says-mandatory-safety-tests-needed-for-ai-models?srnd=phx-technology&leadSource=uverify%20wall&embedded-checkout=true

New AI Entertainment Studio Gets Backing From Peter Chernin, Andreessen Horowitz

PhilNote: they plan to start delivering “within three years,” so other than the financing they aren’t that special.

... The studio, Promise, is the brainchild of George Strompolos and Jamie Byrne, two former YouTube executives who were early to the influencer space, along with Dave Clark, a generative AI artist.

Unlike traditional studios that are starting to experiment with generative AI for storyboarding or some visual effects, Promise is creating an entire studio centered on using these tools. It is creating production software, called Muse, for its artists to take advantage of generative AI tools, and will look to use them for everything from conceptualizing scenes to actual production, rather than exploring around the edges like others are doing. ...

See the full story here: https://www.wsj.com/business/media/new-ai-entertainment-studio-gets-backing-from-peter-chernin-andreessen-horowitz-8c840236

US government commission pushes Manhattan Project-style AI initiative

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Noting that energy infrastructure is a significant bottleneck for training large AI models, Helberg suggested that streamlining the permitting process for data centers might be an example of how a public-private partnership could accelerate AI development.

ChatGPT maker OpenAI, which last week released a proposed blueprint for U.S. AI strategy, has also called for more government funding for artificial intelligence. ...

The USCC, established by Congress in 2000, provides annual recommendations on U.S.-China relations. Known for its hawkish policy proposals, the commission aims to guide lawmakers on issues of economic and strategic competition with China. ...

See the full story here: https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/us-government-commission-pushes-manhattan-project-style-ai-initiative-2024-11-19/

Experience Ancient Egypt Like Never Before

The Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced a new AR experience in partnership with Meta to explore ancient Egyptian artifacts in stunning detail and share your journey through time. 

This project was launched at the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir to celebrate its 122nd anniversary. Instagram's Revival project utilizes advanced augmented reality (AR) filters to virtually restore artifacts that are on display at both the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir and the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization (NMEC). ...

Visitors to the Egyptian Museum and the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization (NMEC) can now scan QR codes located near selected artifacts. By using these codes, they can access augmented reality (AR) filters on Instagram. These filters digitally reconstruct statues, carvings, and other ancient objects, allowing visitors to see how they would have appeared in their original state.

See the full story here: https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/136243/Experience-Ancient-Egypt-Like-Never-Before

A Powerful AI Breakthrough Is About to Transform the World

... In a recent demonstration, a Physical Intelligence-powered pair of robot arms does what is, believe it or not, one of the hardest tasks in all of robotics: folding laundry. Clothes can take on any shape, and require surprising flexibility and dexterity to handle, so roboticists can’t script the sequence of actions that will tell a robot exactly how to move its limbs to retrieve and fold laundry. ...

Powerful as they can be, these systems still have limits and unpredictability that mean they won’t be able to completely automate people’s jobs, says Dettmer.

The AI at the heart of EvolutionaryScale, for example, can suggest new molecules for humans to try in the lab, but humans still have to synthesize and test them. ...

See the full story here: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/a-powerful-ai-breakthrough-is-about-to-transform-the-world-095b81ea

Growing Up: Navigating Generative AI’s Early Years – AI Adoption Report

This new Wharton rpt gives an AI update.

Navigating Generative AI’s Early Years – AI Adoption Report

Democratising AI for good: Global AI pioneer Dr. Ben Goertzel launches $1m+ in grants for international developers, advancing the mission of creating benevolent Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)

• Dr. Ben Goertzel, the CEO of the Artificial Superintelligence (ASI) Alliance, and the Founder of SingularityNET - the world's first decentralised AI platform is on a mission to accelerate the emergence of human-level Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) and superintelligence for the benefit of all mankind
  
• More than $1M in funding will be awarded to multiple developers who design disruptive applications to push the frontiers of AGI development
  
• For further details on entry visit https://deepfunding.ai/all-rfps/ before 1st December 2024

See the full article here: https://www.prnewswire.com/in/news-releases/democratising-ai-for-good-global-ai-pioneer-dr-ben-goertzel-launches-1m-in-grants-for-international-developers-advancing-the-mission-of-creating-benevolent-artificial-general-intelligence-agi-302304470.html