AI & Robotics

Intellectual property (IP) infringement is a big concern with generative AI, which is built on reams of previously-published material. While many enterprises are exploring the technology and looking to integrate it into their products, this can often cause hesitancy. If they use a vendor’s platform and it triggers a copyright claim, who’s responsible? Google Cloud is one of the latest large…

Last week, the fast pace of AI news continued unabated — from the release of Adobe’s Firefly 2 and AMD’s Nod.ai acquisition to social media’s audio deepfake problem and more signs that the U.S.-China AI race is heating up.  But all week long, I struggled to write. Like so many others, I found it nearly impossible to concentrate in the wake of the horrific terror attack by Hamas on Israel…

While the Hollywood writers’ strike has officially ended with new protections against AI in screenwriting, there is no such luck for their creative counterparts, the actors, whose union the Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) published a statement today saying talks with the film and TV industry CEOs have broken down, after the CEOs reportedly…

Google‘s artificial intelligence (AI) image generator for the masses is here … sort of. Hot on the heels of Adobe’s new Firefly 2 AI image generator, and OpenAI releasing its new DALL-E 3 image generator broadly within ChatGPT Plus (and offering it through investor/customer Microsoft’s Bing Image Creator), Google this week announced it, too, was putting a text-to-image generation AI…