5 things about AI you may have missed today: More leaders to skip UK AI Summit, Music publishers sue AI firm, more
21.10.2023 - 17:39
/ tech.hindustantimes.com
/ Joe Biden
/ Ai
In what turned out to be another interesting day in the artificial intelligence universe, this emerging technology touched diverse areas from policy making to medtech. The UK's AI Summit might be in trouble. After German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, US President Joe Biden too may skip UK PM Rishi Sunak's AI meet. In other news, three music publishers have filed a lawsuit against Anthropic AI for using their copyrighted lyrics to train its Claude chatbot. This and more in today's AI roundup. Let us take a closer look.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, along with US President Joe Biden, are planning to skip the Bletchley Park gathering on November 1-2, Bloomberg reported as per anonymous sources familiar with the matter. French President Emmanuel Macron and Japanese Premier Fumio Kishida have yet to make a decision, leaving Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni as the only Group of Seven leaders, besides the host, who has confirmed their attendance at this point.
Although there is still room for possible late additions, the absence of key world leaders diminishes the event's prominence as Britain endeavors to establish a global strategy for artificial intelligence. Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak is working to position the UK as a leader in both the development and regulation of this technology, which he has described as potentially "paradigm-shifting" but also requiring essential "guardrails" to manage associated risks.
In a legal complaint filed in the US District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee, which is renowned as a music hub due to its association with Nashville, publishing companies Universal Music, Concord, and ABKCO have leveled allegations against Anthropic, an entity with backing from Amazon, reports The Register. These allegations include not only the unauthorized scraping of copyrighted song lyrics from the internet but also assert that Anthropic's technology, Claude, regenerates these lyrics upon request, often wrongly claiming authorship of well-known songs.
The three publishers have compiled a catalog of 500 songs they contend Anthropic illicitly obtained through web scraping. This assortment spans from contemporary hits by artists like Beyoncé to timeless classics from iconic musicians such as the Rolling Stones, The Beach Boys, Otis Redding, and numerous others that anyone who has enjoyed music over the past six decades is likely to recognize.
Rishihood University is issuing a call for paper submissions for the upcoming International Conference on AI-Driven Innovations in Research and Publications, as per ANI. Presented by the Ashok Goel Library at Rishihood University, this conference is slated to be