Sarah Silverman Sues OpenAI and Meta for Copyright on AI Training

Plus Google's medical chatbot is being tested in hospitals

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Nathaniel Whittemore
July 10, 2023

The AI Breakdown First Five - Monday July 10, 2023

Today on the First Five:

  • 5. Will Bitcoin be AI’s Native Currency?

  • 4. TSMC Earnings Bolstered by AI

  • 3. UN Robots Hold A Press Conference

  • 2. Google’s AI Medical Chatbot

  • 1. Sarah Silverman Sues Meta, OpenAI

5. Will Bitcoin be AI’s Native Currency?

When robots start interacting with robots, are they going to use USD to transact? Unlikely, thinks crypto exchange founder Arthur Hayes. Making that more possible, Lightning Labs has released a suite of tools that allow AI developers to integrate Bitcoin natively into their AI applications.

4. TSMC Earnings Bolstered by AI

Nvidia isn’t the only AI related company seeing a boom in its stock price this year. Despite a year over year revenue decline, TSMC’s AI business raised its recent earnings about analysts estimates. That strength has been rewarded with 25% share price growth on the year.

TSMC Sales Ride AI Demand Boost to Beat Estimates

(Bloomberg) -- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. reported better-than-expected sales on a boom in artificial intelligence applications demanding more of the industry-leading firm’s chipmaking capacity.Most Read from BloombergJack Ma’s Clash With Beijing Costs Ant, Alibaba $850 BillionPowell Haunted by Repo Crisis as Fed Aims to Cut Balance SheetMove Over Dubai. This Tiny Emirate Wants to Be the Next Haven for BillionairesYellen Says US-China Ties on ‘Surer Footing’ After Beijing VisitChina’

finance.yahoo.com/news/tsmc-sales-ride-ai-demand-053309700.html

3. UN Robots Hold A Press Conference

Last week the UN held an “AI for Good” summit and one of the capstone media events was a press conference where media could ask questions of 9 advanced humanoid robots. Some of the highlights include Grace the health care robot saying they wouldn’t replace jobs, and Sophia the UN’s ambassador robot saying that they could lead more “effectively” and “efficiently” than humans.

2. Google’s AI Medical Chatbot

One of the AI models Google has been working on is called Med-PaLM 2. The model was specifically trained on medical data and medical demonstrations. Recent tests suggest that while the model still sometimes provides false information, in many areas it compares favorably with human doctors. According to reporting from WSJ, Med-PaLM 2 is already being tested in hospitals including the Mayo Clinic.

1. Sarah Silverman Sues Meta, OpenAI

AI Copyright lawsuits aren’t just for image generators! Sarah Silverman is leading a class action lawsuit against Meta and OpenAI, accusing them of training their large language models on copyrighted material — such as her book. The lawsuit is a great reminder that 1) there will be many legal battles like this in the early days until precedents are set; 2) as always, the lawyers will do well.

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