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Reviews: Approximate Feature Collisions in Neural Nets
I believe the phenomenon identified here seems interesting and worth considering. The authors point out the work of Jacobsen et al. which addresses a similar topic, but as concurrent work this does not diminish the originality of the paper here. The paper is easy to follow in most parts. The introduction in particular very clearly defines and unpacks the phenomenon of interest. The Method section would benefit from slightly more care in its technical details. For instance, possible edge-cases occur to me in the claim that "the intersection of all the sets listed above is a convex polytope in at least a d-n_p dimensional subspace".
Legal Challenge Over Decision That AI Machines Cannot Be Granted Patents - AI Summary
Abbott approached Thaler about using the AI as the basis of the case and with a team of lawyers, all working pro bono, they filed patent applications in more than a dozen countries listing DABUS as the inventor of a beverage container it created. New Zealand's Assistant Commissioner of Patents rejected the initial application in January, ruling that the term "inventor" intrinsically refers to a natural person. Abbott said the test case was not about any sort of legal rights for machines, rather it was about trying to get a patent for "the inventive output from an AI" that lacks a traditional human inventor. Some firms were already using AI programmes to discover new drugs or to find ways to repurpose materials but the companies that many of the lawyers on the case represent wanted greater clarity on patent ownership before investing further, he said. The application was declined in Australia but later overturned by the Federal Court in 2021 which said the country's patent act had no specific provision excluding AI systems as inventors.
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Alliance Seeks Greater Clarity for Artificial Intelligence - RTInsights
The AI Infrastructure Alliance is developing a canonical stack for artificial intelligence and machine learning, bringing together a number of vendors, communities, and other organizations. As businesses seek to bring artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) into the mainstream, challenges emerge. Scaling from pilot projects to production can be difficult. Earlier this year, the issue got new attention and a group that seeks to address the problems got noticed. "Band of AI startups launch'rebel alliance' for interoperability" That headline in VentureBeat certainly caught my eye.
Rights for robots: why we need better AI regulation
We live in a world where humans aren't the only ones that have rights. In the eyes of the law, artificial entities have a legal persona too. Corporations, partnerships or nation states also have the same rights and responsibility as human beings. With rapidly evolving technologies, is it time our legal system considered a similar status for artificial intelligence (AI) and robots? "AI is already impacting most aspects of our lives. Given its pervasiveness, how this technology is developed is raising profound legal and ethical questions that need to be addressed," says Julian David, chief executive of industry body techUK.
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Japan shows the world's first programmes in 8K
The dawn of 8K resolution television has arrived as a Japanese television network broadcasts the first programmes in the format. Japan's national public broadcasting organisation, NHK, is now sending both 4K and 8K channels via satellite to viewers. The first film shown in 8K will be '2001: A Space Odyssey' and Stanley Kubrick's classic film was scanned by Warned Bros on 70mm film negatives to produce the high-resolution masterpiece. This newest resolution has four times as many pixels vertically and horizontally as current top-end 4K Ultra HD screens, and 16 times more than standard 1080p HD. NHK is currently the only channel pushing for the 8K medium as specialist equipment and huge price-tags puts off consumers and companies alike.
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Samsung unveils its new AI-powered TVs that have 16 TIMES the number of pixels as standard HD
Samsung has taken the wraps off a range of new televisions powered by AI that promise to provide pictures with greater clarity than ever. The whopping 65" to 85" screens in the new QLED 900R range are capable of displaying images in 8K resolution – the next frontier in ultra high definition viewing. This newest resolution has four times as many pixels vertically and horizontally as current top-end 4K Ultra HD screens, and 16 times more than standard 1080p HD. Samsung is using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to'upgrade' the quality of any video content viewed on the screen, including older television shows, and movies. The AI analyses the low-resolution content – checking the pixel location, colour, shape of 33 million pixels inside the frame – to detect objects it recognises.
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