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YouTube and Universal Music Group join forces to explore the future of AI music

YouTube, the video-sharing behemoth, has revealed a landmark initiative that will see it work hand-in-hand with the music industry to navigate the uncharted waters of artificial intelligence (AI) in music creation and distribution. The Alphabet-owned company is launching the Music AI Incubator, a forward-thinking program designed to delve into the potential of AI within music. The initiative is…
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Generative AI datasets could face a reckoning | The AI Beat

Over the weekend, a bombshell story from The Atlantic found that Stephen King, Zadie Smith and Michael Pollan are among thousands of authors whose copyrighted works were used to train Meta’s generative AI model, LLaMA, as well as other large language models, using a dataset called “Books3.” The future of AI, the report claimed, is “​​written with stolen words.”  The truth is, the…
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AI in OT: Opportunities and risks you need to know

Artificial intelligence (AI), particularly generative AI apps such as ChatGPT and Bard, have dominated the news cycle since they became widely available starting in November 2022. GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) is often used to generate text trained on large…
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How businesses can ensure a prolonged AI summer

The excitement around generative AI is a textbook example demonstrating the top of a technology hype cycle. The newest gauge on emerging technologies from Gartner shows gen AI near the “peak of inflated expectations.”  For example, McKinsey has stated that the technology could add up to $4.4 trillion annually in global GDP. Sequoia Capital believes that entire industries will be disrupted.
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What you need to know about Sakana AI, the new startup from a Transformer paper coauthor

The landscape of generative artificial intelligence (gen AI) is in a rapid state of evolution these days, not only with OpenAI, Meta, and Google competing directly on foundation models, but doing so while some of their biggest in-house talent leaves to launch their own gen AI startups. Last month saw one of the biggest defections: Llion Jones, one of the co-authors on the seminal 2017 research…
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