About the Good, and the Bad, of AI

Microsoft to help you with any copyright infringement

“If a third party sues a commercial customer for copyright infringement for using Microsoft’s Copilots or the output they generate, we will defend the customer and pay the amount of any adverse judgments or settlements that result from the lawsuit, as long as the customer used the guardrails and content filters,” Smith (Chief Legal Officer) wrote.

It looks like this is for large, paying clients of CoPilot, and not any Bing using for free. But it is a good step.

Careful when choosing an AI vendor

A good number of firms losing market value, and could be sold. Former AI unicorns include Buzzfeed, Metromile, AppHarvest, Embark and others. See below for the full list.

ChatGPT usage down for third month in a row.

Probably due to summer months, but also average time on the site is down. Could also be more competition, leading to use of other products.

IBM rolls out new generative AI

The new models, called the Granite series models, appear to be standard large language models (LLMs) along the lines of OpenAI’s GPT-4 and ChatGPT, capable of summarizing, analyzing and generating text. IBM provided very little in the way of details about Granite, making it impossible to compare the models to rival LLMs — including IBM’s own. But the company claims that it’ll reveal the data used to train the Granite series models, as well as the steps used to filter and process that data, ahead of the models’ availability in Q3 2023.