FROM THE CEPIC NEWSLETTER
DATE: 6 October 2021
The UK published their AI strategy on 22 September. Check it out here ...
The question raised is:"Who will be the next AI superpower"? And part of the answer lies in how copyright will be dealt with. The UK therefore envisages a consultation on the issue in the next coming months.
On 30 September CEPIC participated in workshop organised by the European Commission/ DG Connect on: ‘Opportunities and challenges of Artificial Intelligence Technologies for the Cultural and Creative Sectors’.
The goal of the meeting was two-fold.
In terms of legislation.
Notably, a proposal on a AI regulation here ...
In terms of funding, leading to projects such as AI4media here ...
DATE: 4 August 2021
Shutterstock announced on 27.07 that they are launching a new division Shutterstock AI - For "Artificial Intelligence". The New Yorker based company has acquired three companies that are already active in these areas of AI: Pattern89, Datasine and Shotzr.
"With these acquisitions, we hope to rapidly develop our own predictive performance capabilities to help creatives and customers accomplish their goals by making more data-informed content decisions."
According to its own information, Shutterstock paid around 35 million US dollars for the three companies.
DATE: 7 May 2021
• The EU published draft legislation on 21 April.
To enable scientific breakthroughs and to ensure that AI technologies are at the service of all citizens, improving their lives while respecting their rights, the European Commission proposed the first draft Regulation on AI. The draft legislation is only a part of a major European strategy for AI presented by the European Commission in 2018 to address the opportunities and challenges of AI and promoting, at the same time, European values.
• Feedback is now opened until 02 July 2021 on the s opened on the proposal of the EU Commission on AI ! Access the documentation here !
Artificial intelligence (AI) is a fast-evolving and strategic technology with tremendous opportunities. However, some of its uses pose specific significant risks to the application of various EU rules designed to protect fundamental rights, ensure safety and attribute liability.
This initiative will ensure that AI is safe, lawful and in line with EU fundamental rights. The overall goal is to stimulate the uptake of trustworthy AI in the EU economy.
DATE: 11 March 2021
This article is for those who are passionate about AI.
A radical new technique lets AI learn with practically no data.
DATE: 11 February 2021
AI is like nuclear power. It's disruptive and can be used for all kind of purposes, right or wrong.
The Russia-wide demonstrations in support of opposition leader Alexey Navalny on January 23, 2021 were accompanied by suspicious social media behaviour targeting the gathering in Moscow. Ahead of the protests, newly created inauthentic accounts hijacked the Instagram geotag for Moscow’s Red Square with AI-generated faces and Navalny posters. AI-generated faces are an increasingly common feature of inauthentic accounts.
DATE: 16 January 2021
Computer vision is an artificially intelligent technology that is rapidly growing in popularity. As a fast-evolving technology space, computer vision has attracted a lot of exposure and a great amount of investment.
DATE: 13 November 2020
November 12 2020 -- Dreamstime, the world's largest stock photography community, with 33 million users and 148 million images to this date, has recently released its new Upload section. Re-designed and finetuned for its 670,000+ contributors, the new upload integrates Dreamstime’s proprietary PhotoEye™ AI technology, prioritizes features based on popularity, adds an accessible mass file and metadata import solutions and allows instant connection with the dedicated mobile app.
To test the newly improved Upload area, visit https://www.dreamstime.com/upload. For more information about Dreamstime, visit https://www.dreamstime.com/.
DATE: 22 October 2020
On Tuesday 20 October, MEPs adopted proposals on how the EU can best regulate Artificial Intelligence (AI).
The European Parliament is among the first institutions to put forward recommendations on what AI rules should include with regards to ethics, liability and intellectual property rights. The Commission legislative proposal is expected early next year.
AI and Intellectual Property Rights
The report by Stéphane Séjourné (Renew Europe, FR) makes clear that EU global leadership in AI requires an effective intellectual property rights system (IPR) and safeguards for the EU’s patent system to protect innovative developers, while stressing that this should not come at the expense of human creators’ interests, nor the European Union’s ethical principles.
MEPs believe it is important to distinguish between AI-assisted human creations and AI-generated creations. They specify that AI should not have legal personality; thus, ownership of IPRs should only be granted to humans. The text looks further into copyright, data collection, trade secrets, the use of algorithms and deep fakes.
The report was adopted with 612 votes in favour, 66 against, and 12 abstentions
Link to the Report:
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/A-9-2020-0176_EN.pdf
DATE: 22 February 2019
Each time you refresh this site, the network will generate a new facial image from scratch from a 512 dimensional Vector.
https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/
This article (in German) shows how Artificial Intelligence can create portraits of people that look real. Will models and model releases still be necessary? Read more here ...