🤔 Bluesky CEO Jay Graber isn’t ruling out advertising
#Bluesky #Advertising
Spotify Is Using You
https://www.hearingthings.co/spotify-wrapped-2024/
#Music #Spotify #SpotifyWrapped
Public Domain Day 2025 is Coming: Here’s What to Know
https://copyrightlately.com/public-domain-2025/
#Copyright #PublicDomain
Alternative meat could help the climate. Will anyone eat it?
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/12/05/1107906/alternative-meat-climate/
#Food #Meat
🤔 U.S. officials urge Americans to use encrypted apps amid unprecedented cyberattack
#Technology #Security
🤷‍♂️ "Despite his concerns, Ulvaeus is a supporter of using AI in the creative process, saying the technology would represent the “biggest revolution” ever seen in music.
If AI had existed in the 1970s, Abba would have used the technology to suggest lyrics or to add other styles such as Motown to their sound, he said.
AI had the potential to increase creativity and productivity in many industries. Ulvaeus said that he and Abba’s other main songwriter, Benny Andersson, used to work “office hours” but still only produced about 14 songs a year.
The best AI models would be able to take artists into “unexpected directions”, he said."
https://www.ft.com/content/40b28a25-eddc-4ac5-82f3-dac0128a187f
#AI #Music #Copyright #ABBA
COMMUNIA: Our analysis of the 1st draft of the General-Purpose AI Code of Practice
#AI #Copyright
"That brilliant scientists often prove ineffectual in government has been clear since at least the mid-1960s, when the first cross-government chief scientific adviser was appointed in the United Kingdom. “Having gained access to the corridors of power, scientists could not find their way to the men’s room,” wrote science journalist Peter Ritchie Calder, in his 1975 memoir Scientists in the British Government. Politicians weren’t much better, he added: they were “deferential, even gullible, but, by and large, they did not know the right questions to ask”".
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03910-4
#Science #Politics
Celsius founder Alex Mashinsky pleads guilty to two fraud counts
#Celsius #Crypto
OECD: "Generative AI will transform many jobs, but its impact will be greatest in regions that have been least exposed to past waves of automation".
https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/03/ai_oecd_report/
#AI #OECD
What a mess. #UK #Universities
How close is AI to human-level intelligence?
Large language models such as OpenAI’s o1 have electrified the debate over achieving artificial general intelligence, or AGI. But they are unlikely to reach this milestone on their own.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03905-1
#AI #AGI
How US AI policy might change under Trump
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/12/03/1107704/departing-ai-white-house-advisor/
#AI #Trump
"To mark [ChatGPT] turning two, Nature has compiled data on its usage and talked to scientists about how ChatGPT has changed the research landscape."
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03940-y
#ChatGPT #Science #Research
China’s generative AI users reach 230 million as start-ups, Big Tech roll out LLM services
#China #GenerativeAI #LLM
"Some of these names may belong to any number of people. But a potential thread of connection was soon discovered: These people were public or semi-public figures who may have preferred to have certain information “forgotten” by search engines or AI models."
#AI #ChatGPT #DavidMayer
Artists Make $8 in Profit From a $100 Concert Ticket
https://www.hearingthings.co/artists-make-8-in-profit-from-a-100-concert-ticket/
#Music #Capitalism
This manga publisher is using Anthropic’s AI to translate Japanese comics into English
Orange wants to bring manga to as many readers as possible—but some fans are not happy.
#Manga #AI
What Will Enter the Public Domain in 2025?
https://publicdomainreview.org/features/entering-the-public-domain/2025/
#PublicDomain
The end of AI scaling may not be nigh: Here’s what’s next
https://venturebeat.com/ai/the-end-of-ai-scaling-may-not-be-nigh-heres-whats-next/
I guess we'll have to wait and see.
#AI