Licensing & automating creativity

Practical AI: Machine Learning, Data Science

AI is increasingly being applied in creative and artistic ways, especially with recent tools integrating models like Stable Diffusion. This is making some artists mad. How should we be thinking about these trends more generally, and how can we as practitioners release and license models anticipating human impacts? We explore this along with other topics (like AI models detecting swimming pools 😊) in this fully connected episode.

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Featuring:

• Chris Benson – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
• Daniel Whitenack – Twitter, GitHub, Website

Show Notes:

Automation and creativity

• Goodbye, humans: Call centers ‘could save $80b’ switching to AI
• DALL-E can now use AI to extend images as a human artist might
  -An AI-Generated Artwork Won First Place at a State Fair Fine Arts Competition, and Artists Are Pissed

Nation states and AI

• Undeclared pools in France uncovered by AI technology
• France reveals hidden swimming pools with AI, taxes them
• Nvidia says U.S. government allows A.I. chip development in China
• Foreign Affairs: Spirals of Delusion - How AI Distorts Decision-Making and Makes Dictators More Dangerous

Resources

• Open RAIL Licenses
• NormConf

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