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Predictions Series 2022: How to Win in an Opt-In Era

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Opt-in doomsayers believe this legislation could cripple the entire advertising industry because consumers will have more meaningful control over their privacy, and authenticated audiences will shrink as a result. However, the trends that have shaped the market can be bucked, and publishers and advertisers have an exciting opportunity to create a new ecosystem in compliance with the opt-in marketplace that benefits everyone involved โ€“ including consumers. Further, the browser and device manufacturer changes that are already in-progress are already moving the industry towards a more logged-in environment, in which it becomes easier for consumers to opt in as they authenticate. As we look towards an opt-in era in the future, it's important that publishers and marketers consider how the industry arrived at this point, and the lessons they can take away from this journey. Under the opt-out default, it's easy to see that the consumer experience has been lacking, and a lot of that falls on technology. The opt-out default enabled the propagation of third-party cookies, and the collection of data โ€“ often in a way that was not as transparent as it could have been for consumers.


Is generative AI really a threat to creative professionals?

The Guardian

When the concept artist and illustrator RJ Palmer first witnessed the fine-tuned photorealism of compositions produced by the AI image generator Dall-E 2, his feeling was one of unease. The tool, released by the AI research company OpenAI, showed a marked improvement on 2021's Dall-E, and was quickly followed by rivals such as Stable Diffusion and Midjourney. Type in any surreal prompt, from Kermit the frog in the style of Edvard Munch, to Gollum from The Lord of the Rings feasting on a slice of watermelon, and these tools will return a startlingly accurate depiction moments later. Cosmopolitan trumpeted the world's first AI-generated magazine cover, and technology investors fell over themselves to wave in the new era of "generative AI". The image-generation capabilities have already spread to video, with the release of Google's Imagen Video and Meta's Make-A-Video.


Atomist or Holist? A Diagnosis and Vision for More Productive Interdisciplinary AI Ethics Dialogue

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

In response to growing recognition of the social impact of new AI-based technologies, major AI and ML conferences and journals now encourage or require papers to include ethics impact statements and undergo ethics reviews. This move has sparked heated debate concerning the role of ethics in AI research, at times devolving into name-calling and threats of "cancellation." We diagnose this conflict as one between atomist and holist ideologies. Among other things, atomists believe facts are and should be kept separate from values, while holists believe facts and values are and should be inextricable from one another. With the goal of reducing disciplinary polarization, we draw on numerous philosophical and historical sources to describe each ideology's core beliefs and assumptions. Finally, we call on atomists and holists within the ever-expanding data science community to exhibit greater empathy during ethical disagreements and propose four targeted strategies to ensure AI research benefits society.


Differentially Private Vertical Federated Learning

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

A successful machine learning (ML) algorithm often relies on a large amount of high-quality data to train well-performed models. Supervised learning approaches, such as deep learning techniques, generate high-quality ML functions for real-life applications, however with large costs and human efforts to label training data. Recent advancements in federated learning (FL) allow multiple data owners or organisations to collaboratively train a machine learning model without sharing raw data. In this light, vertical FL allows organisations to build a global model when the participating organisations have vertically partitioned data. Further, in the vertical FL setting the participating organisation generally requires fewer resources compared to sharing data directly, enabling lightweight and scalable distributed training solutions. However, privacy protection in vertical FL is challenging due to the communication of intermediate outputs and the gradients of model update. This invites adversary entities to infer other organisations underlying data. Thus, in this paper, we aim to explore how to protect the privacy of individual organisation data in a differential privacy (DP) setting. We run experiments with different real-world datasets and DP budgets. Our experimental results show that a trade-off point needs to be found to achieve a balance between the vertical FL performance and privacy protection in terms of the amount of perturbation noise.


Legal NLP 1.2.0 for Spark NLP has been released!

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We are excited to welcome the new 1.2.0 version of Legal NLP, including the following new capabilities. Legal NLP has been built on top of Spark NLP, which uses Spark MLLib pipelines. This means, You can have a common pipeline with any component of Spark NLP of Spark MLLib. Also, you combine it with the rest of our licensed libraries, such as Visual NLP, Healthcare NLP or Finance NLP. The library works on the top of Transformers and other Deep Learning architectures, providing state-of-the-art models which can be run on Spark Clusters.


AI and Copyright Law: How Copyright Applies to AI-Generated Content - Trust Insights Marketing Analytics Consulting

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Who owns these fabulous works of art generated by systems and models like OpenAI's DALL-E or Stability.ai's What about blog content created by tools like GoCharlie or Copy.ai? To engage Ruth's services as an attorney, visit their website at GeekLawFirm.com. This interview does not constitute legal advice or create a client-attorney relationship with anyone. The information contained in this interview is presented on an "as is" basis with no guarantee of completeness, accuracy, usefulness, timeliness, or of the results obtained from the use of this information and without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including, but not limited to warranties of performance, merchantability, or fitness for a particular purpose. While we have taken every reasonable precaution to insure that the content is accurate, errors can occur. In all cases you should consult with a qualified professional familiar with your particular situation for advice concerning specific matters. What follows is an AI-generated transcript. The transcript may contain errors and is not a substitute for watching the video. Please note the following warning disclosure and disclaimer, this interview does not constitute legal advice or create a client attorney relationship with anyone.


Meet Spellbook the GPT-3 Generative AI Word Add-In For Contracts

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In another example of the use of generative AI approaches in the legal sector, Toronto-based Rally has launched a GPT-3 based add-in for Word called Spellbook, which is designed to help lawyers with legal drafting. Spellbook's use of OpenAI's GPT-3 large language model, an AI trained on 45 terabytes of data from books and the internet, is further'tuned' on legal datasets for'optimal contracting performance', they explained. Artificial Lawyer was understandably curious to know some more, especially after recently highlighting the work by PatentPal, which uses a non-GPT-3 generative AI model. This site asked Scott Stevenson, CEO of Rally โ€“ which provides its core legal management platform to 110 law firms โ€“ about how they are leveraging this technology. When did this start and what is Rally?


Pinaki Laskar on LinkedIn: #ai #datascience #programming

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What new technologies will be developed in the next decade? It is Causal Learning AI Machines (CLAIMs). It is highlighted by the Gartner Hype Cycle of Emerging Technology 2022 highlighting technologies that will significantly affect business, society and people over the next 2 to 10 years. The CLAIMs top functions is to intelligently identify causal patterns in the data universe of data classes and sets and elements. The CLAIMs act as primary decision makers in government and public bodies, businesses and others, in economical/financial industries, to govern economies and finances, automate trading decisions and detect prospective directions and investment opportunities, in legal sectors, to provide legal advice to individuals and small businesses.


Building responsible AI: 5 pillars for an ethical future

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Check out the on-demand sessions from the Low-Code/No-Code Summit to learn how to successfully innovate and achieve efficiency by upskilling and scaling citizen developers. For as long as there has been technological progress, there have been concerns over its implications. The Manhattan Project, when scientists grappled with their role in unleashing such innovative, yet destructive, nuclear power is a prime example. Lord Solomon "Solly" Zuckerman was a scientific advisor to the Allies during World War 2, and afterward a prominent nuclear nonproliferation advocate. He was quoted in the 1960s with a prescient insight that still rings true today: "Science creates the future without knowing what the future will be."


Investigating Enhancements to Contrastive Predictive Coding for Human Activity Recognition

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

The dichotomy between the challenging nature of obtaining annotations for activities, and the more straightforward nature of data collection from wearables, has resulted in significant interest in the development of techniques that utilize large quantities of unlabeled data for learning representations. Contrastive Predictive Coding (CPC) is one such method, learning effective representations by leveraging properties of time-series data to setup a contrastive future timestep prediction task. In this work, we propose enhancements to CPC, by systematically investigating the encoder architecture, the aggregator network, and the future timestep prediction, resulting in a fully convolutional architecture, thereby improving parallelizability. Across sensor positions and activities, our method shows substantial improvements on four of six target datasets, demonstrating its ability to empower a wide range of application scenarios. Further, in the presence of very limited labeled data, our technique significantly outperforms both supervised and self-supervised baselines, positively impacting situations where collecting only a few seconds of labeled data may be possible. This is promising, as CPC does not require specialized data transformations or reconstructions for learning effective representations.