Tag: Originality
The USPTO wants to know if artificial intelligence can own the content it creates | THE VERGE
‘It outlines thirteen specific questions, ranging from what happens if an AI creates a copyright-infringing work to if it’s legal…
GPT-2 text generator released at full strength
AI text generator GPT-2 is now fully available. The complete code and associated data was released by OpenAI, the California…
Artificial Intelligence Artwork Wins Graduate Art Prize For Camberwell Graduate | ART & COLLECTIONS
‘The Graduate Art Prize…is open to all final year students on BA and MA degree courses at British art colleges…
The Next Word | THE NEW YORKER
‘…it’s making billions of lightning-fast probability calculations about word patterns from a year’s worth of e-mails sent from Gmail.com.’ The…
The Economist’s essay contest featured an AI submission. Here’s what the judges thought. | VOX
‘…the AI did not emerge victorious — but even this mediocre performance is a stunning change from what AI was…
AI BRIEFS: October 2019
KFC Hints at AI, License Plate Recognition for Drive-thrus | THE SPOON | October 30, 2019 | by Jennifer Marston…
Creativity and AI: The Next Step | SCIENTIFIC AMERICA
Efforts to combine the two foundations of AI may help systems express themselves. All AI systems work in one of…
OpenAI has released the largest version yet of its fake-news-spewing AI | MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW
‘…after careful monitoring, OpenAI had not yet found any attempts of malicious use but had seen multiple beneficial applications, including…
Montag is a New Magazine Written Entirely by AI | BEEBOM
‘The contents for the articles are scraped from the internet using shell scripts and Python scripts. The scraped text then…
JPMorgan Chase picks AI over humans to write ads | SF GATE
‘…the largest U.S. bank says Persado’s “artificial intelligence message machine” wrote ads that generated two to five times the response…
Patent agencies challenged to accept AI inventor | FINANCIAL TIMES
“Whatever you think of the ideas on their own, that’s not really the point,” (Abbot) said. “What’s striking is that…
AI model adds music to its repertoire
An AI technology that generates believable text now produces tunes, too. Both come from OpenAI, a California company dedicated to…
First AI-generated textbook published by Springer
A 247-page publication about lithium-ion batteries is the first textbook authored by a computer, setting a new milestone in machine-generated…
Kelly on creativity
‘…the trumpet is not, itself, creative. Artificial-intelligence algorithms are more like musical instruments than they are like people.’ Sean Dorrance…
A philosopher argues that an AI can’t be an artist | MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW
‘…the trumpet is not, itself, creative. Artificial-intelligence algorithms are more like musical instruments than they are like people.’ In MIT…
Novel AI system can draw caricatures | THE INDIAN EXPRESS
‘The method enables users to automate caricatures of portraits, and can be applied to tasks such as creating caricatured avatars…
The first AI-scripted commercial is here – and it’s surprisingly good | WEF
‘Watson was given 15 years’ worth of award-winning commercials, a trove of data showing when consumers tended to connect most…
Finally, a Machine That Can Finish Your Sentence | NEW YORK TIMES
‘Completing someone else’s thought is not an easy trick for A.I. But new systems are starting to crack the code…
IBM Watson creates the first AI-made film trailer – and it’s incredibly creepy | WIRED
‘Although a human editor was still needed to patch the scenes together to tell a coherent story, the AI shortened…
Could a robot write a novel? | BBC
AI tools are helping writers in more ways, for example correcting or suggesting words, and by themselves are generating longer…