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Young Coders Are Using AI for Everything, Giving "Blank Stares" When Asked How Programs Actually Work

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That's according to Namanyay Goel, an experienced developer who's not too impressed by the new generation of keyboard-clackers' dependence on newfangled AI models. The foundational knowledge that used to come from struggling through problems is just missing," he added. Crickets,"he wrote. Ask about edge cases? Blank stares." "The

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British authors want Meta to answer for alleged copyright infringement

Engadget

million books, to train its AI models. These cases are shining a light on the unscrupulous behaviour exhibited by global tech companies which seemingly exploit copyright-protected material, safe in the knowledge that they will not be held to account," the Society of Authors' letter stated.

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This startup wants to reprogram the mind of AI—and just got $50 million to do it

Fast Company Tech

Anthropic, Menlo Ventures, and other AI industry players are betting $50 million on a company called Goodfire , which aims to understand how AI models think and steer them toward better, safer answers. Cofounder Lee Sharkey pioneered the use of sparse autoencoders in language models.

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Are you ‘AI literate’? Schools and jobs are insisting on it—and now it’s EU law

Fast Company Tech

“The models are not failing,” says Maria De-Arteaga, an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin McCombs School of Business. “We’re deploying the models for things that they’re not fit for purpose. ” Lee sees parallels to how society adapted to previous technologies.

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IPRally is building a knowledge graph-based search engine for patents

TechCrunch

Co-founded by CEO Sakari Arvela, who has 15 years experience as a patent attorney, IPRally has built a knowledge graph to help machines better understand the technical details of patents and to enable humans to more efficiently trawl through existing patients. It brings the total raised by the 2018-founded company to €2.35

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The Road to Accessibility without Borders: Celebrating the One-Year Anniversary of the Marrakesh Treaty

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I have previously written about the top issues addressed by the Treaty , but to recap, the Treaty is a wonderful instrument because it requires exceptions for people who are blind or have other print disabilities in national copyright laws. HathiTrust.

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The Case for Copyright Exceptions and Fair Use

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Such action, the Court decided, didn’t constitute copyright infringement because it was fair use , that is, a limitation and exception to the exclusive rights granted by copyright law to the author of a creative work. It also underscores just how critical a balanced copyright law is for technology innovation. copyright law.

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