A cease-and-desist letter accuses the search giant's AI tools of training on and copying protected works. The letter includes examples of images from several Disney properties including Deadpool, Moana, Star Wars and others, reproduced by Google's AI tools. Disney is demanding that Google implement guardrails within all its AI products to prevent further infringement. Today Disney with OpenAI to license its characters for use in Sora, OpenAI's video generator. The deal will see Disney invest $1 billion in OpenAI (a paltry sum by), with the option to purchase additional equity at a later date.

A recommender system is an important component of Internet services today: billion dollar revenue businesses are directly driven by recommendation services at big tech companies. The current landscape of production recommender systems is dominated by deep learning based approaches, where an embedding layer is first adopted to map extremely large-scale ID type features to fixed-length embedding vectors; then the embeddings are leveraged by complicated neural network architectures to generate recommendations. The continuing advancement of recommender models is often driven by increasing model sizes--several models have been previously released with billion parameters up to even trillion very recently. Every jump in the model capacity has brought in significant improvement on quality. The era of 100 trillion parameters is just around the corner.

Sony has developed what it's calling a breakthrough artificial intelligence program for the Gran Turismo series of PlayStation racing games. The software, called Gran Turismo Sophy, is so sophisticated, Sony says, that it handily beat a group of the world's best virtual race car drivers in test version of the 2017 game Gran Turismo Sport in October. "Outracing human drivers so skillfully in a head-to-head competition represents a landmark achievement for AI," Chris Gerdes, a Stanford professor specializing in autonomous driving, wrote in a Nature article published alongside Sony's research. Gerdes said this research could one day affect self-driving car development, according to Wired. "GT Sophy's success on the track suggests that neural networks might one day have a larger role in the software of automated vehicles than they do today," Gerdes wrote.

As Amazon's CTO since 2005, Werner Vogels has observed macro trends around the technology industry, giving him a unique perspective to distinguish substantive progress from mere fads. He recently published his views on what he sees in store in 2022 for cloud technology and the technology world in general. In his post, Werner lays out five core predictions, regarding the growth of artificial intelligence (AI), the abundance of data, the power of machine learning (ML), architecting for sustainability, and the full reach of connectivity via the Internet, backed by cloud-based resources. I think his analysis provides takeaways for startups overall and where they might seek to create value in the next year. Let's dive into each of these anticipated developments and their potential impact on the world of startups.

Spear phishing is a social engineering technique targeted towards a targeted individual to divulge confidential information. But creating highly targeted mass spear-phishing emails could take a lot of effort and time. In a recent test conducted by a team of researchers, it was found that they could use Natural Language Processing (NLP) to devise targeted phishing emails. At the end of the research, the team revealed that AI/ML could be used to develop spear-phishing campaigns at a devastating scale. In the recently held Black Hat Defcon security conference in Las Vegas, a team of researchers hailing from the Singapore Government Technology Agency presented the results of their AI/ML generated phishing email test.

The 3rd chapter of the textbook provides an overview of ethical issues that exist in the field of artificial intelligence. It provides cautionary tales, unintended consequences, and ethical considerations. It also covers biases that cause ethical issues and some tools that can help address them. We've spent many weeks writing the questionnaires. And the reason for that, is because we tried to think about what we wanted you to take away from each chapter.

The 3rd chapter of the textbook provides an overview of ethical issues that exist in the field of artificial intelligence. It provides cautionary tales, unintended consequences, and ethical considerations. It also covers biases that cause ethical issues and some tools that can help address them. We've spent many weeks writing the questionnaires. And the reason for that, is because we tried to think about what we wanted you to take away from each chapter.

Dreams and nightmares are a natural occurrence to humans. Some say that dreams reflect the mentality and thoughts of a person, while some others think it is a desire that dreams project. They portray the deep fear thorough a vision. As everyone stays curious about what dreams represent, Artificial Intelligence (AI) took its way to find an answer. Earlier, technology has accelerated and made artificial intelligence dream.

Aiello and his collaborators applied their AI tool to dream reports collected in the DreamBank, a massive database put together by Adam Schneider and UC Santa Cruz professor emeritus G. William Domhoff. The dream reports are more thorough than my brief dream journal entries. One, from a blind person, reads: "I was at a religious retreat. We were sitting in a dining room, eating dinner. There were roses on the table, I smelled their fragrance. We had a Thanksgiving-type dinner with my favorite things (turkey, stuffing, cranberries) and my favorite kind of dessert, pumpkin pie. And it was in the middle of spring, which was most ironic."

Google Cloud has launched a new center of excellence to provide "evangelism capabilities" and dedicated resources to help independent software vendors (ISVs) accelerate their cloud transformations. The Google Cloud ISV/SaaS Center of Excellence will provide training, hands-on design workshops and field enablement -- applying Google Cloud's experience delivering applications and products at massive scale -- to help ISVs move their software from on premises to the cloud and leverage the No. 3 cloud computing provider's and broader Google's capabilities. "We're providing evangelism capabilities so that we can help the ISVs understand how we can support them…and solution architects so that we can work hand in hand with them to be able to define the solution architecture of how they would move their application to the cloud," Siddhartha Agarwal, Google Cloud's managing director of SaaS partnerships, told CRN. The center will work with ISVs whether they're transforming their applications with open, cloud-agnostic architectures, transforming their users' experience through artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) and voice or delivering intelligent insights from their applications by providing analytics to business users. "Many ISVs are working with customers to migrate business critical applications from on premises to the cloud, either'lifting-and-shifting' as quickly and easily as possible, or, more often, taking the opportunity to upgrade and adopt modern, cloud-native architectures based on containers, microservices, serverless and open source software," said Agarwal.