Wednesday, March 27, 2024

If I understand correctly, the DoJ would rather have Apple spend $77B on R&D so they can come up with products their competition can’t imagine?

https://www.ft.com/content/7cac2c98-6915-416c-9ddb-eb5c81003440

Apple’s buyback bonanza could be casualty of antitrust crackdown

Should companies be punished for handing money back to shareholders? The Department of Justice seems to think so.

In the midst of its landmark lawsuit against Apple, the antitrust enforcer noted disapprovingly of the company’s $77bn buyback scheme in 2023: not because it was a lazy deployment of capital but as an indicator of what the DoJ dubbed “anti-competitive and exclusionary” conduct.





This sounds logical since AI is trained on existing data. (Not just art...)

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2423087-artists-who-use-ai-are-more-productive-but-less-original/

Artists who use AI are more productive but less original

Using artificial intelligence to create artworks increases artists’ productivity and generates more positive reactions, according to a study involving submissions to a popular art-sharing website by more than 50,000 users.

However, generative AI works are more likely to display stereotypical themes and depictions, reducing the novelty of the artist’s work.





Tools & Techniques. (A good summary of techniques.)

https://www.techopedia.com/best-machine-learning-algorithms

12 Best Machine Learning Algorithms Data Scientists Should Know in 2024

what are the best algorithms for budding data scientists and AI enthusiasts to learn about today?

To help answer this question, Techopedia has compiled a list of the top machine learning algorithms that AI enthusiasts should know, including a cheat sheet of the most widely used supervised and unsupervised machine learning algorithms.



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