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How AI is making copyright issues more complicated | Devcom panel

September 10, 2024
  AI and games has become the hottest topic at game conferences like Devcom, the game developer conference that precedes the giant Gamescom expo every year in Cologne. At the event, I moderated a panel that explored the notion of the limits of intellectual property — exploring concepts with legal experts on questions like whether it’s OK to claim fair use in copying an image that…
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AI Tools: Crafting harmony or creating dependency?

September 10, 2024
As AI tools become increasingly integrated into our daily lives, we face a critical question: Are we harnessing their power to enhance our abilities, or are we slowly outsourcing our minds — or both? As an early adopter of generative AI tools like DALL-E, ChatGPT, Claude…
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These five personas show how workers approach AI says Slack survey

September 9, 2024
A new survey from Slack and Salesforce showed that organizations struggling to improve AI adoption could benefit from personalizing their approach to employees.  The latest Slack Workforce Index survey reached out to 5,000 full-time desk workers on their AI usage. It found five personas of people using or not using AI in the workplace.  The personas: the Maximalist, who uses AI multiple times a…
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Luma AI debuts Dream Machine 1.6 video generator with camera motions

September 5, 2024
AI video generators are multiplying in number and increasing in realism, but one big roadblock preventing them from replacing traditionally filmed video is a lack of fine-grained control. Many leading AI generators allow users to enter text prompts and/or upload still images that the underlying models convert into motion, but the resulting video clips are often a surprise and may feature…
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Why we need to check the gen AI hype and get back to reality

September 2, 2024
For the past 18 months, I have observed the burgeoning conversation around large language models (LLMs) and generative AI. The breathless hype and hyperbolic conjecture about the future have ballooned— perhaps even bubbled — casting a shadow over the practical applications of today’s AI tools. The hype underscores the profound limitations of AI at this moment while undermining how these…
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