In other AI news, Microsoft has reaffirmed its facial recognition ban, AI startup Anthropic is launching a new paid plan for enterprises, and Yelp has announced a new AI-powered chatbot. Walmart-owned Sam’s Club is using AI to speed up its "exit technology," and Amazon CodeWhisperer has been rebranded as Q Developer. Researchers at Cambridge and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München are working on AI models that can identify causal mechanisms in the medical field, and a grad student at the University of Pennsylvania is studying "emergent auditing" of AI platforms by users.
Key takeaways:
- Eight U.S. newspapers owned by Alden Global Capital, including the New York Daily News, Chicago Tribune and Orlando Sentinel, have sued OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement relating to the companies’ use of generative AI tech.
- A research paper co-authored by a scientist on OpenAI’s Superalignment team proposes a framework to compensate copyright owners “proportionally to their contributions to the creation of AI-generated content” through cooperative game theory.
- Microsoft has added language to the terms of service for Azure OpenAI Service, more clearly prohibiting integrations from being used “by or for” police departments for facial recognition in the U.S.
- AI startup Anthropic is launching a new paid plan aimed at enterprises as well as a new iOS app, and Yelp announced a new AI-powered chatbot for consumers that helps them connect with relevant businesses for their tasks.