O'Reilly

MARCH 26, 2024

Copyright was intended to incentivize cultural production: in the era of generative AI, copyright won’t be enough. The prompts start the dream, and based on the LLM’s hazy recollection of its training documents, most of the time the result goes someplace useful. An LLM is 100% dreaming and has the hallucination problem.

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Artificial Intelligence Social Media Google Internet 108

O'Reilly

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Another group of cases involving text (typically novels and novelists) argue that using copyrighted texts as part of the training data for a Large Language Model (LLM) is itself copyright infringement, 1 even if the model never reproduces those texts as part of its output. Is an artist’s style copyrightable, and if so, what does that mean?

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Artificial Intelligence Media Google Processing 99

O'Reilly

AUGUST 8, 2023

It will give them the chance to tell computers what to do without programming; it’s the ultimate “low code” experience. Three search terms stand out: Generative AI, LLM, and Langchain all follow similar curves: they start off with relatively moderate growth that suddenly becomes much steeper in February, 2023.

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O'Reilly

JULY 25, 2023

So far I’ve read a gazillion blog posts about people’s experiences with these AI coding assistance tools. This article summarizes what I learned from that experience. I’m a professor who is interested in how we can use LLMs (Large Language Models) to teach programming. And ChatGPT didn’t warn me about this.

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