A lot is happening in the world of AI. To help you stay up to date with the latest news, we've put together a list of the developments we're following.
Beijing Internet Court rules that plaintiffs who used generative AI to create digital images demonstrated sufficient control over the image creation process to have an enforceable copyright through a series of prompts. was lowered. This is in some tension with the US Copyright Office's position that authors are entitled to copyright only those portions of images that are the result of human creativity.
The UK High Court has ruled that inventions relating to artificial neural networks do not fall within the country's subject matter exclusion for computer programs themselves. UKIPO has responded by updating its audit guidance to coincide with the event. This could open up the UK as a patenting ground for machine learning and AI, although it was previously considered to be hostile to these technologies.
Google DeepMind published a paper in Nature containing 2.2 million different crystal structures. The new material set includes 380,000 new stable materials, increasing the number of known stable materials by an order of magnitude. DeepMind researchers used an AI tool called Graph Network for Materials Exploration (GNoME). This is a graph neural network trained on known material. Google claims that outside researchers independently created 736 new materials for GNoME in its lab.
Amazon has announced Q, an AI assistant for businesses. The chatbot is intended to help employees with daily tasks such as “summarizing strategy documents, filling out internal support tickets, and answering questions about company policies.” Amazon claims Q is more secure and private than consumer chatbots, and better able to address security and privacy concerns for businesses.
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