Anthropic is in court again, sued by the music publication industry for copyright infringement by reason of the scanning of extant music to educate Claude as part of the development of generative AI. The question: is such use “fair use” … Continue reading
Category Archives: AI
What should a board of directors focus upon in today’s world? Likely not a hard question but you need to think about it. The below thoughts arose in last night’s program presented by the New England Chapter of National Association … Continue reading
This post addresses remarks by Admiral Jim Stravidis to the New England Chapter of National Association of Corporate Directors. My prior post outlined the Admiral’s understanding of the world order today and its immediate geopolitical prospects. He emphasized that directors … Continue reading
This post, longer than most (apologies), reflects take-aways from a one-hour zoom program reflecting thinking at the annual January San Francisco conference on medtech held under JP Morgan auspices. That zoom was sponsored by MassBio and I am told it … Continue reading
In 2018 a Federal Circuit Court denied copyright protection to a black macaque monkey who took his own selfie, holding that the Copyright Act required the copyright applicant be a human being. I am not making this up. This year … Continue reading
SECOND OF THREE POSTS BASED ON NACD PROGRAM ON BOARDS AND COMPANIES IN TODAY’S ECONOMY AI requires boards to act differently. What exactly does AI accomplish for your particular business? Boards need strong intelligence on AI, within boards or by … Continue reading
This morning the New England chapter of National Association of Corporate Directors, in conjunction with the National organization, presented it annual “Visionaries” panel discussion, which addressed what boards (and companies) needed to be thinking about in the face of domestic … Continue reading
Per Law 360, a service which updates attorneys on major trends in the law, the often-discussed issue of whether AI is stealing the intellectual property of others, as that property is appearing in publicly available sources, is the subject of … Continue reading
The AI Futures Project has issued two predictions for the possible future of AI and its impact on business, geopolitics and the future of human-kind. One assumes a rapid escalation of bad utilization of AI, and the second assumes a … Continue reading
This first of two posts on artificial intelligence tracks a fragment of its promise, as reported in the August 1 issue of Boston Business Journal. That article is entitled AI for Life. Starting with Google Deep-Mind’s discovery that a protein’s … Continue reading