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Strofe -- AI Powered Music Creation – GameFromScratch.com
Strofe is a new tool for creating game music using AI or machine learning. It runs in the browser and is currently free with future pricing discussed on /r/gamedev. We're thinking something like $1-3 to buy an individual song on top of a subscription service in the range of 5-10 to make/own unlimited songs. That way folks who just need one can grab one or if you have a big project you can subscribe. It's worth mentioning a lot of these legal cases are based around the offending artist's awareness of the song that was "copied" or stolen from.
Energy consumption of AI poses environmental problems
Take some of the most popular language models, for example. OpenAI trained its GPT-3 model on 45 terabytes of data. To train the final version of MegatronLM, a language model similar to but smaller than GPT-3, Nvidia ran 512 V100 GPUs over nine days. A single V100 GPU can consume between 250 and 300 watts. If we assume 250 watts, then 512 V100 GPUS consumes 128,000 watts, or 128 kilowatts (kW).
Blizzard to change beloved 'Overwatch' hero's name in wake of harassment lawsuit
McCree, a popular hero in Blizzard's team-based shooter "Overwatch," is getting renamed. The playable character was originally a nod to Jesse McCree, a game designer who no longer works at Blizzard in the wake of a California Department of Fair Employment and Housing lawsuit against its parent company, Activision Blizzard, alleging widespread sexual harassment and discrimination. Further, employees at Blizzard have told The Post that similar changes will soon be coming to "World of Warcraft," which contains several characters and one city named after multiple former Blizzard developers.
The 7 Biggest Ethical Challenges of Artificial Intelligence
Today, artificial intelligence is essential across a wide range of industries, including healthcare, retail, manufacturing, and even government. But there are ethical challenges with AI, and as always, we need to stay vigilant about these issues to make sure that artificial intelligence isn't doing more harm than good. Here are some of the biggest ethical challenges of artificial intelligence. We need data to train our artificial intelligence algorithms, and we need to do everything we can to eliminate bias in that data. The ImageNet database, for example, has far more white faces than non-white faces.
UK to overhaul privacy rules in post-Brexit departure from GDPR
Britain will attempt to move away from European data protection regulations as it overhauls its privacy rules after Brexit, the government has announced. The freedom to chart its own course could lead to an end to irritating cookie popups and consent requests online, said the culture secretary, Oliver Dowden, as he called for rules based on "common sense, not box-ticking". But any changes will be constrained by the need to offer a new regime that the EU deems adequate, otherwise data transfers between the UK and EU could be frozen. A new information commissioner will be put in charge of overseeing the transformation. John Edwards, currently the privacy commissioner of New Zealand, has been named as the government's preferred candidate to replace Elizabeth Denham, whose term in office will end on 31 October after a three-month extension.
China's Microsoft Hack May Have Had A Bigger Purpose Than Just Spying
When investigators discovered the hack on Microsoft Exchange servers in January, they thought it was about stealing emails. Now they believe China vacuumed up reams of information in a bid to develop better artificial intelligence, or AI. When investigators discovered the hack on Microsoft Exchange servers in January, they thought it was about stealing emails. Now they believe China vacuumed up reams of information in a bid to develop better artificial intelligence, or AI. Steven Adair hunts hackers for a living. Back in January, in a corner-of-his-eye, peripheral kind of way, he thought he saw one in his customer's networks -- a shadowy presence downloading emails. Adair is the founder of a cybersecurity company called Volexity, and he runs traps to corner intruders all the time.
AI and Dispute Resolution: friends of foes?
On May 13, 2021, the London Disputes Week conference ("LIDW21") hosted a panel of thought leaders to discuss the intersection of artificial intelligence ("AI") and dispute resolution ("DR"). The panel was moderated by Dan Wyatt of RPC and featured Charles Morgan, national co-leader of McCarthy Tétrault's Cyber/Data Group, Trish Shaw of Beyond Reach Consulting, Sophia Adams Bhatti of Simmons Wavelength Limited and Steve Shinn of Disputed.iou. The panel was part of the session entitled, "The use of technology and AI in the future of dispute resolution in London." This article summarizes some of the key points raised during this session. LIDW21 is an international conference with a focus on centering London, England as the global centre for dispute resolution.
AI at work -- Mitigating safety and discriminatory risk with technical standards
Becker, Nikolas, Junginger, Pauline, Martinez, Lukas, Krupka, Daniel, Beining, Leonie
The use of artificial intelligence (AI) and AI methods in the workplace holds both great opportunities as well as risks to occupational safety and discrimination. In addition to legal regulation, technical standards will play a key role in mitigating such risk by defining technical requirements for development and testing of AI systems. This paper provides an overview and assessment of existing international, European and German standards as well as those currently under development. The paper is part of the research project "ExamAI - Testing and Auditing of AI systems" and focusses on the use of AI in an industrial production environment as well as in the realm of human resource management (HR).
What is AI bias mitigation, and how can it improve AI fairness?
Algorithmic bias is one of the AI industry's most prolific areas of scrutiny. Unintended systemic errors risk leading to unfair or arbitrary outcomes, elevating the need for standardized ethical and responsible technology -- especially as the AI market is expected to hit $110 billion by 2024. There are multiple ways AI can become biased and create harmful outcomes. First is the business processes itself that the AI is being designed to augment or replace. If those processes, the context, and who it is applied to is biased against certain groups, regardless of intent, then the resulting AI application will be biased as well.