Five Things AI: Open Challenges, Copyright, Health, Lilli, COBOL
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Hi and welcome to Five Things AI. If you’re looking for the latest fun apps that use AI to create funny images of you or if you want to learn some new prompts to up your prompt ninja game, you’re in the wrong place. At Five Things AI I try to pick five articles about AI that give you a glance at the current discussion of AI and how it relates to society, business, and politics.
If you only have time to read one article this week, read the one about open challenges in LLM research, as it will show you the current breaking points. Or you just read the one about copyright and AI-created art, especially if you are interested in getting your favorite shows at a streaming service near you. Or maybe you the impressive article about how AI helped a person to speak again after a person had a stroke and became paralyzed. Definitely the article about Lilli will make you think “I cannot wait for this to be available at my company!”, so you could read that article. And if you ever wondered what happened to those old computer mainframes and you always feared they were still being in use, than read the last article about AI and COBOL.
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Open challenges in LLM research
This really is the overview I needed to understand the current challenges of AI. This article breaks down the current research and points out what needs to be done to achieve the next steps of the developments.
AI-Created Art Isn’t Copyrightable, Judge Says In Ruling That Could Give Hollywood Studios Pause
So when AI-created art is not copyrightable, because it is not human work, what does that mean for the creative process of the future? What level of human involvement is necessary to be able to talk about co-creation? This will be an interesting discussion in the near future.
A Stroke Stole Her Ability to Speak at 30. A.I. Is Helping to Restore It Years Later.
We will see so many more breathtaking advances in medicine thanks to AI. Healthtech will get a huge boost through AI and this case is just one of the first examples of the power of AI in this field of research.
Consulting giant McKinsey unveils its own generative AI tool for employees: Lilli
Have you ever wondered which document or which study was the important one, after you looked through your hard drive and through all the stuff in the company cloud? Lilli is McKinsey’s attempt to make sense of all the information that is stored at McKinsey. While this is news now, this will be commonplace soon for companies big and small.
IBM’s generative AI tool aims to refactor ancient COBOL code for its mainframes
Coding co-pilots don’t just help us understand code, but it will hopefully help companies get off their old mainframe setups that still power many large systems and make interoperability pretty complicated. WatsonX has many other languages that it is being trained on, so I’m curious what will happen next with all the old systems still around.
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