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Google refines Drive for large businesses

Engadget

"This means that all of your company data can be accessed directly from your laptop, even if you don't have much space left on your hard drive," Google explains. File Stream is live via the Early Adopter Program right now. Additionally, Google has moved Team Drives out of beta testing, allowing participating businesses everywhere to manage a large number of files, easily add and remove new team members, and keep information secure. Today, Team Drives are available to all G Suite Business, Education, and Enterprise customers. Meanwhile, Google's machine-intelligence-powered Quick Access system is getting its start on iOS and Android today. Quick Access puts the files you're most likely to need front-and-center in your Team Drive, using the same tech behind Gmail's Smart Reply function.


WikiLeaks to make CIA cyber weapons publicly available online, Julian Assange says

The Independent - Tech

WikiLeaks is to publish all of the CIA's cyber weapons online, Julian Assange had suggested. The organisation has posted what appears to be the biggest ever leak of CIA spying secrets ever, but had previously refrained from publishing the details of the US spying agency's weapons. Mr Assange had argued that it would be dangerous to do so, since anyone could use them once they are made public. But he has now announced that it will put those previously redacted weapons online. The giant human-like robot bears a striking resemblance to the military robots starring in the movie'Avatar' and is claimed as a world first by its creators from a South Korean robotic company Waseda University's saxophonist robot WAS-5, developed by professor Atsuo Takanishi and Kaptain Rock playing one string light saber guitar perform jam session A man looks at an exhibit entitled'Mimus' a giant industrial robot which has been reprogrammed to interact with humans during a photocall at the new Design Museum in South Kensington, London Electrification Guru Dr. Wolfgang Ziebart talks about the electric Jaguar I-PACE concept SUV before it was unveiled before the Los Angeles Auto Show in Los Angeles, California, U.S The Jaguar I-PACE Concept car is the start of a new era for Jaguar.


Should an artificial intelligence be allowed to get a patent?

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Whether an A.I. ought to be granted patent rights is a timely question given the increasing proliferation of A.I. in the workplace. One might argue that Intellectual Property (IP) laws and IP Rights were designed to exclusively benefit human creators and inventors[7] and thus would exclude non-humans from holding IP rights. However, many IP laws were drafted well before the emergence of A.I. and in any case, do not explicitly require that a creator or inventor be'human.' The World Intellectual Property Organization's (WIPOs) definition of Intellectual Property talks about creations of the mind[9] but does not specify whether it must be a human mind. Similarly, provisions in laws promoting innovation and IP rights, such as the so-called Intellectual Property Clause of the U.S. Constitution[10], also do not explicitly mention a'human' requirement.


What's at stake as the GOP moves to slash regulations? For starters, clean air

Los Angeles Times

Amid the Republican backlash against federal scientists who write rules governing everything from movie theater popcorn to offshore oil drilling, stories abound of overburdened businesses, heavy-handed civil servants and crushing paperwork. But another story, one involving a deadly household material, offers a lesson in what can go wrong when government experts are shackled, as currently envisioned under a sweeping regulatory reform bill gliding toward President Trump's desk. The GOP-backed legislation revives many of the rule-making hurdles that for years crippled the government's ability to respond to the asbestos-exposure epidemic, which has been blamed for tens of thousands of American deaths. "I don't think lawmakers are focusing on how extreme this legislation is," said Paul Billings, lobbyist for the American Lung Assn., which has joined several major public health groups imploring congressional leaders to apply the brakes. "It has been viewed as this abstraction that creates improvements in the regulatory process. This would undermine bedrock public health laws."


Why the ascendence of AI can benefit young lawyers - Legal Cheek

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Ahead of'The future of litigation' on Thursday, RPC's Daniel Wyatt tells Tom Connelly how the Pyrrho case is redefining what it means to be a litigation lawyer Everyone's talking about artificial intelligence (AI), about what it can actually do, about how far it will go, and about whether trainee lawyers and paralegals' jobs are at risk. Daniel Wyatt, a litigation and arbitration specialist at RPC, has witnessed the rise and rise of AI within the legal sector first-hand. Wyatt -- who joined RPC as an associate in 2012 -- recognises that AI's impact on litigation and the legal sector is hugely important but stresses that it is more about a change in focus, not the death knell for junior posts. There will always be a need for junior lawyers. I suspect that the impact of AI will be more a case of re-distributing the work that paralegals and trainees undertake.


IP Osgoode ยป Intellectual Property Strategy For Artificial Intelligence

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Artificial intelligence ("AI") is a technical field of computer science that includes machine learning, natural language processing, speech processing, expert systems, robotics and machine vision. The term "artificial intelligence" is sometimes challenged in favor of machine intelligence or machine learning. Machine learning automates decision making using programming rules and in some cases training data sets. Human subject matter experts can provide feedback on results as part of a training process. Machine learning can adapt its programming based on the training process and feedback.


Should an artificial intelligence be allowed to get a patent?

Robohub

Whether or not an artificial intelligence (AI) ought to be granted patent rights is a timely dilemma given the increasing proliferation of AI in the workplace. AI technology has been applied effectively in medical advancements, psycholinguistics, and tourism and food preparation. Even a film written by an AI recently debuted online, and AI has sneaked into the legal profession. One might argue that Intellectual Property (IP) laws and IP Rights were designed to excusively benefit human creators and inventors, and thus would exclude non-humans from holding IP rights. However, many IP laws were drafted well before the emergence of AI, and in any case do not explicitly require that a creator or inventor be'human.'


The 'robot lawyer' giving free legal advice to refugees

BBC News

A technology initially used to fight traffic fines is now helping refugees with legal claims. When Joshua Browder developed DoNotPay he called it "the world's first robot lawyer". It's a chatbot - a computer program that carries out conversations through texts or vocal commands - and it uses Facebook Messenger to gather information about a case before spitting out advice and legal documents. It was originally designed to help people wiggle out of parking or speeding tickets. But now Browder - a 20-year-old British man currently studying at Stanford University - has adapted his bot to help asylum seekers.


Amazon hands over Echo data in murder case

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The voice-activated Echo lets users control other smart home devices, play games and order products on Amazon's site. Amazon's mounting First Amendment battle has reached an anticlimactic end. The company agreed to hand over user data of an Amazon Echo speaker for a murder trial in Arkansas, after it spent months pushing back against a warrant for the information. Amazon changed its position after the user, defendant James Andrew Bates, consented to the disclosure, according to a court filing that was made public Monday. Before Bates consented, Amazon just last month offered a strong defense against releasing the user information, with the company saying Bates' audio recordings with the Echo were protected under the First Amendment.


Amazon releases Echo data in murder case, dropping First Amendment argument

PBS NewsHour

The Amazon Echo, a voice-controlled virtual assistant, is seen at its product launch for Britain and Germany in London, in 2016. After several months of pushback, Amazon has agreed to release user data from an Amazon Echo device involved in a high-profile Arkansas murder trial. The device, a popular, hands-free artificial intelligence assistant named "Alexa" that responds to human directives, contains audio recordings that prosecutors say could could provide information in the murder of Victor Collins, 47, who was found dead in his hot tub on Nov. 22, 2015, in Bentonville, Arkansas. James Bates, 31, was charged with first-degree murder and tampering with evidence in the case. Benton County Prosecuting Attorney Nathan Smith wrote in an email that prosecutors were "pleased" with Amazon's decision.