Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg appears to have used YouTube’s battle to remove pirated content to defend his own company’s use of a data set containing copy 
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ISSUE #421: IN AI COPYRIGHT CASE, ZUCKERBERG TURNS TO YOUTUBE FOR HIS DEFENSE January 16th 2025 |
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| In the News | | | Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg appears to have used YouTube’s battle to remove pirated content to defend his own company’s use of a data set containing copyrighted e-books, reveals newly released snippets of a deposition he gave late last year. techcrunch.com | |
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| In The News | | L’Oréal will leverage IBM’s generative AI (GenAI) technology to create innovative and sustainable cosmetic products. artificialintelligence-news.com | |
| A new study released today by data protection startup Harmonic Security Inc. has found that nearly one in 10 prompts used by business users when using artificial intelligence disclose potentially sensitive data. siliconangle.com | |
| Work to construct the UK's largest artificial intelligence (AI) data centre could create up to 750 jobs in a town, it has been claimed. bbc.com | |
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| Applied use cases | | In my grandfather's jewelry workshop, I witnessed the toll of repetitive tasks on human creativity—a challenge that inspired me to reimagine workplace dynamics through humanoid robotics that complement rather than compete with human workers. techradar.com | |
| Amazon Marketing Cloud is adding a dash of generative artificial intelligence to its platform, in the form of a new feature, introduced at CES in Las Vegas Wednesday, that lets advertisers submit structured query language (SQL) queries to build and target audiences. adweek.com | |
| OpenAI is launching a new beta feature in ChatGPT called Tasks that lets users schedule future actions and reminders. theverge.com | |
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| Ethics | | Artificial intelligence (AI) has taken centre stage in basic science. The five winners of the 2024 Nobel Prizes in Chemistry and Physics shared a common thread: AI. livescience.com | |
| Recent research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has found that large language models, such as ChatGPT-4, demonstrate an unexpected capacity to solve tasks typically used to evaluate the human ability known as “theory of mind.” psypost.org | |
| This article takes a deep dive into AI governance, including insights surrounding its challenges, frameworks, standards, and more. dzone.com | |
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| Robotics | | Elon Musk predicts widespread demand for Tesla's Optimus humanoid robots, aiming for 500,000 units by 2027. tweaktown.com | |
| As someone who eats honey on toast almost every day, I’ve been quite interested over the past few years by stories about the supposed collapse of the global bee population. roboticsandautomationnews.com | |
| Symbotic Inc. today announced that it will acquire Walmart Inc.’s Advanced Systems and Robotics business. The supply chain robotics company said the transaction expands its relationship with Walmart with the goal of “developing an integrated supply chain.” therobotreport.com | |
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| Research | | This article examines how QML can harness the principles of quantum mechanics to achieve significant computational advantages over classical approaches. dzone.com | |
| Delphi demonstrates improved generalization capabilities over those exhibited by off-the-shelf neural language models. nature.com | |
| We present and discuss our solution to the problem of testing software simulators, using SearchSYS to test the gem5 VLSI digital circuit simulator, employed by ARM to test their systems. In particular, we focus on the simulation of the ARM silicon chip Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) ucl.ac.uk | |
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