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However, if someone uses a very specific prompt, generates many images, selects from those images, and carries out further edits, then it could justify authorship, Hugenholtz added. Hugenholtz said he also saw potential for legal clashes when it comes to infringement of art styles and derivative works.

Abishek Gupta is the founder and principal researcher at the Montreal AI Ethics Institute and senior Responsible AI leader and expert at Boston Consulting Group; Steven Mills is the Global GAMMA Chief AI Ethics Officer at Boston Consulting Group. The Responsible AI (RAI) domain is at an inflection point: We are moving decidedly from principles to practice. As organizations mature their understanding, they are feeling the pressure to act from customer demands and impending regulatory requirements. RAI means developing and operating artificial intelligence systems that align with organizational values and widely accepted standards of right and wrong while achieving transformative business impact. But successfully operationalizing RAI requires a leader with the right mix of knowledge, skills, abilities and experience, and RAI remains a nascent field.

Industry assignment, which assigns firms to industries according to a predefined Industry Classification System (ICS), is fundamental to a large number of critical business practices, ranging from operations and strategic decision making by firms to economic analyses by government agencies. Three types of expert knowledge are essential to effective industry assignment: definition-based knowledge (i.e., expert definitions of each industry), structure-based knowledge (i.e., structural relationships among industries as specified in an ICS), and assignment-based knowledge (i.e., prior firm-industry assignments performed by domain experts). Existing industry assignment methods utilize only assignment-based knowledge to learn a model that classifies unassigned firms to industries, and overlook definition-based and structure-based knowledge. Moreover, these methods only consider which industry a firm has been assigned to, but ignore the time-specificity of assignment-based knowledge, i.e., when the assignment occurs. To address the limitations of existing methods, we propose a novel deep learning-based method that not only seamlessly integrates the three types of knowledge for industry assignment but also takes the time-specificity of assignment-based knowledge into account. Methodologically, our method features two innovations: dynamic industry representation and hierarchical assignment. The former represents an industry as a sequence of time-specific vectors by integrating the three types of knowledge through our proposed temporal and spatial aggregation mechanisms. The latter takes industry and firm representations as inputs, computes the probability of assigning a firm to different industries, and assigns the firm to the industry with the highest probability.

Product bundling is a common selling mechanism used in online retailing. To set profitable bundle prices, the seller needs to learn consumer preferences from the transaction data. When customers purchase bundles or multiple products, classical methods such as discrete choice models cannot be used to estimate customers' valuations. In this paper, we propose an approach to learn the distribution of consumers' valuations toward the products using bundle sales data. The approach reduces it to an estimation problem where the samples are censored by polyhedral regions. Using the EM algorithm and Monte Carlo simulation, our approach can recover the distribution of consumers' valuations. The framework allows for unobserved no-purchases and clustered market segments. We provide theoretical results on the identifiability of the probability model and the convergence of the EM algorithm. The performance of the approach is also demonstrated numerically.

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An artificial intelligence-driven toaster that gets the perfect level of brownness each time, a device to humanely remove flying insects from a room, and a sensor that tells you when a nappy needs changing. These were just three of the new things created by UK based inventors last year. A Guardian analysis of patent applications listed by the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) found 6,087 patent applications published with at least one UK-based inventor listed in 2021. Cambridge was the most inventive area in the UK with 146 invention applications listed for every 100,000 residents. Those included a coffee making apparatus, invented by resident Willam Playford, which is still yet to be examined by the IPO.

Marketing and information technology are increasingly becoming integrated. Experts say that as artificial intelligence is increasingly being used and ad targeting is relying more on automation, combining the two departments or drawing a strong link from one to the other within a brand or an agency could become commonplace. Lytics, a leading customer data platform (CDP), Thursday released the findings from a survey of 250 senior marketers and IT leaders. The survey, Marketing and IT: The Strategic Partnership, found that 81% of marketers believe IT teams will become increasingly involved in marketing efforts during the next five years. Jascha Kaykas-Wolff, president, Lytics, believes marketers must work with IT for safeguards on consumer privacy and to comply with increasing governmental regulations. With that change comes an expectation from both departments on accountability for marketing return on investments (ROIs).

We shall have a hard look at ethics and try to extract insights in the form of abstract properties that might become tools. We want to connect ethics to games, talk about the performance of ethics, introduce curiosity into the interplay between competing and coordinating in well-performing ethics, and offer a view of possible developments that could unify increasing aggregates of entities. All this is under a long shadow cast by computational complexity that is quite negative about games. This analysis is the first step toward finding modeling aspects that might be used in AI ethics for integrating modern AI systems into human society.

Apple stands to lose up to $15 billion a year if the Justice Department forces Google to stop paying the company to be the default search engine on all iPhones - as regulators question the legality of the longtime arrangement. Anytime iPhone users open a web browser to enter a search query, it always defaults to Google. Even though anyone can change this setting, almost no one does, resulting in a huge amount of traffic (and ad revenue) to Google from over a billion iPhone users worldwide. Analysts from Bernstein estimated that Google's payment to Apple would increase to $15 billion in 2021 and as high as $18-$20 billion this year, reports 9to5Mac. The contracts are the basis of the DOJ's antitrust against the California-based company, which began in the closing days of the Trump administration and won't head to trial until sometime in 2023 Last year, Apple's total gross profit was over $152 billion - so losing the Google payments would shave at least 10% off.