Saturday, March 25, 2023

If I run this program against your data and then trade your stock based on the results would I be guilty of insider trading? If not, I’d offer to analyze your data for free!

https://venturebeat.com/ai/while-openai-has-been-working-on-text-and-images-igenius-has-been-working-on-gpt-for-numbers/

While OpenAI has been working on text and images, iGenius has been working on GPT for numbers

… In organizations, generative AI can actually connect every data product anywhere in the world and index it in an organization’s “private brain.” And with algorithms, natural language processing and user-created metadata, or what iGenius calls advanced conversational AI, the complexity of data quality can be improved and elevated. Gartner has dubbed this ‘conversational analytics.’

… On the back end, generative AI helps scale the integration between systems, using the power of natural language to actually create what a Sharka calls an AI brain, composed of private sources of information. With no-code interfaces, integration is optimized and data science is democratized even before business users start consuming that information. It’s an innovation accelerator, which will cut costs as the time it takes to identify and develop use cases is slashed dramatically.

On the front end, business users are literally having a conversation with data and getting business answers in plain natural language. Making the front-end user experience even more consumerized is the next step. Instead of a reactive and single task-based platform, asking text questions and getting text answers, it can become multi-modal, offering charts and creative graphs to optimize the way people understand the data.





How should this work? If I purchase an e-book and eventually donate it to the Archive, would publisher have any grounds to complain?

https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-judge-rules-internet-archives-digital-book-lending-violates-copyrights-2023-03-25/

Internet Archive's digital book lending violates copyrights, US judge rules

A U.S. judge has ruled that an online library operated by the nonprofit organization Internet Archive infringed the copyrights of four major U.S. publishers by lending out digitally scanned copies of their books.

The ruling by U.S. District Judge John Koeltl in Manhattan on Friday came in a closely watched lawsuit that tested the ability of Internet Archive to lend out the works of writers and publishers protected by U.S. copyright laws.

… The San Francisco-based non-profit over the past decade has scanned millions of print books and lent out the digital copies for free. While many are in the public domain, 3.6 million are protected by valid copyrights.

… But Koeltl said there was nothing "transformative" about Internet Archive's digital book copies that would warrant "fair use" protection, as its e-books merely replaced the authorized copies publishers themselves license to traditional libraries.





Perhaps ChatGPT isn’t that awful once you actually give it a try (and some thought)

https://www.forbes.com/sites/emmawhitford/2023/03/25/how-chatgpt-is-fast-becoming-the-teachers-pet/?sh=56bf84a35177

How ChatGPT Is Fast Becoming The Teacher’s Pet

… In a February survey of 1,000 kindergarten through 12th grade teachers nationwide, 51% said they had used ChatGPT, with 40% reporting they used it weekly and 10% using it daily. (ChatGPT is free, as long as users create an account with OpenAI. To access the latest version of the bot, built atop a more advanced version of AI—GPT-4, instead of GPT-3.5—users must pay $20 a month for a ChatGPT Plus subscription.)

About a third of teachers in the survey, commissioned by the Walton Family Foundation, said they use ChatGPT for lesson planning and coming up with creative ideas for classes.



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