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 New Gemini AI lets humanoid robots think and act without internet...  Ukraine's drone pilots are overhauling which Russian targets they think matter most, and tanks have fallen far from the top...  Apptronik's 'superhuman'-like robots can transform heavy-duty works...  ‘FuckLAPD.com’ Lets Anyone Use Facial Recognition to Instantly Identify Cops...
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Meta's AI Model 'Memorized' Huge Chunks of Books, Including 'Harry Potter' and '1984' A new paper from researchers at Stanford, Cornell, and West Virginia University seems to show that one version of Meta’s flagship AI model, Llama 3.1, has memorized almost the whole of the first Harry Potter book. This finding could have far-reaching copyright implications for the AI industry and impact authors and creatives who are already part of class-action lawsuits against Meta. Researchers tested a bunch of different widely-available free large language models to see what percentage of 56 different books they could reproduce. The researchers fed the models hundreds of short text snippets from those books and measured how well it could recite the next lines. The titles were a random sampling of popular, lesser-known, and public domain works drawn from the now-defunct and controversial Books3 dataset that Meta used to train its models, as well as books by plaintiffs in the recent, and ongoing, Kadrey vs Meta class-action lawsuit. According to Mark A. Lemley, one of the study authors, this finding might have some interesting implications. AI companies argue that their models are generative—as in, they make new stuff, rather than just being fancy search engines. On the other hand, authors and news outlets are suing on the basis that AI is just remixing existing material, including copyrighted content. “I think what we show
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 The Senate Is One Step Closer To Passing a 10-Year Moratorium on State AI Regulation...  China planning drone with robotic arm for Mars sample hunt, eyeing bio-safety...  US: World’s most advanced rocket engine tested for hypersonic drones...  CarGurus created a working group for AI experimentation. Employees are buying in....
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