How To Know If AI Is Sentient, Neuroscientists Provide a Checklist

In 2021, Blake Lemoine at Google stirred up a media storm by proclaiming that one of the chatbots he worked on, LaMDA, was sentient—and he subsequently got fired. In fact, most deep learning models are loosely based on the brain’s inner workings. AI agents are increasingly endowed with human-like decision-making algorithms. The idea that machine intelligence could …

Over 170,000 Pirated Works Used to Train Meta’s LLama and Bloomberg AI Models

As AI subsidies continue to flow to big data giants, The Atlantic revealed that that Zadie Smith, Stephen King, Rachel Cusk and Elena Ferrante are among thousands of authors whose pirated works have been used to train artificial intelligence tools. According to an analysis of “Books3” – the dataset harnessed by the firms to build …

Cybersecurity Threats Of Generative AI

Since April, Terence Jackson, chief security advisor for Microsoft, warned that the privacy policies of platforms like ChatGPT impose the collection of sensitive user data such as IP address, browser information, and browsing activities, which may be shared with third parties. I didn’t pay attention then due to misrepresentations as to the models being “open”. I …

Google Bard: Data Theft and Human Bot-Slaves

Who knew that to “replace” one human for 5 minutes, AI would need to rob thousands of living humans of their data and IP and force dozens of other humans to produce text or code in matter of minutes. After all, aren’t humans supposed to tremble at the idea that AI can converse, write, and …

Adobe Firefly: The First IP Safe Generative AI Tool

LONDON (pres release) — Today, at MAX London, Adobe (Nasdaq:ADBE) unveiled Generative Recolor (beta), the first integration of Adobe Firefly in Adobe Illustrator, enabling designers to quickly experiment with colors using simple text prompts. The new release advances Adobe’s vision of empowering creators of every skill level with Firefly as a creative co-pilot, bringing their visions to life …

AI Twist of Heart: Disruption Through Infringement

I realize I had already looked in some detail into the lawsuits against generative AI since January. By May, it is clear that generative AI’s business model relies on copyright infringement. One way to cure this is to join one of the emerging class action lawsuits, in case your artwork has been used to train …