In late August, a Washington DC court ruled that work created by artificial intelligence (AI) cannot be protected by copyright. Judge Beryl Howell said the case – a 2018 piece of art submitted by Stephen Thaler to the Copyright Office – was “not very complex.” “We are approaching new frontiers in copyright as artists put… Read more »
Australian design platform Canva is seeking to address the fundamental concerns of the creator economy in the wake of the Hollywood writers strike by offering an artificial intelligence (AI) royalty program over the next three years as part of its new product release, AI design tool Magic Studio. Cofounder and CEO Melanie Perkins said the… Read more »
Nine newspaper The Australian Financial Review celebrates a bunch of people in its annual “Power” issue of the AFR Magazine tomorrow. Among them is Matildas captain Sam Kerr as the top of the ladder when it comes to people “who made the biggest mark on culture this year” as “arguably Australia’s most successful sportsperson on… Read more »
A free, short course for female founders and small business owners to learn how emerging technologies such as AI and Web 3.0 can help drive productivity, growth and profitability will run in Sydney next month. The InnovateHer program has been developed by the team at Inspiring Rare Birds, and is backed by the City of… Read more »
Law firm, Lander & Rogers has partnered with Monash University to launch the first artificial intelligence (AI) clinical placement program. We were a team of five law students embedded in the firm as “AI investigative agents” in a program overseen by Courtney Blackman from the firm’s iHub innovation function, Stan Chua from the technology team;… Read more »
A majority Australians see AI as a negative 20% believe it will end humanity in the next 20 years. ANZ businesses using AI fell in the last 12 months Using AI in safe and secure way remains a concern AI adopters more likely to report profitability increase Artificial intelligence (AI) is about as popular as… Read more »
One thing artificial intelligence is not good at generating is irony. That takes something, or someone like a US District Court judge, who last week ruled that a piece of art generated by AI can’t be subject to copyright. It’s not a new idea, but rather reinforces the status quo around intellectual property when its… Read more »
A Melbourne startup founded by two former Amazon employees to improve online search for related objects has raised US$5.2 million (A$8.1m) in a Seed round led by Blackbird. Marqo is an AI-powered vector search engine. Vector search is a way to find related objects with similar characteristics using machine learning to find semantic relationships. The raise was… Read more »
An expat Queenslander who found his fortune building HR data analytics startup One Model in the US has scored funding from the state government-backed QIC as part of a US$41 million (A$64m) Series B. The investment will see HR Data and Analytics expert Chris Butler, who grew up in Brisbane, studied IT and software engineering… Read more »
Be careful who you type your passwords in front of: cyber criminals can figure out which keys you’re pressing simply by getting a carefully trained AI model to listen to you type – and the technique even works over phone calls and Zoom sessions. Documented in a newly published paper, the acoustic side channel attack (ASCA) involves recording… Read more »
ChatGPT’s ability to write code has been getting worse over the last few months with the percentage of prompts that produce working code results dropping severely between March and June, a new study has found. A team of researchers from Stanford and the University of California Berkely set out to test how the large language… Read more »
Rapid progress in artificial intelligence (AI) has spurred some leading voices in the field to call for a research pause, raise the possibility of AI-driven human extinction, and even ask for government regulation. At the heart of their concern is the idea AI might become so powerful we lose control of it. But have we… Read more »
South Australian customer retention fintech Sherlok has raised $3.4 million to help mortgage brokers get better home loan deals for their clients. The round was led by VC Rampersand, with participation from Investible and its Club Investible syndicate, supported by Paloma and Common Sense Ventures. A pioneering use case of open banking from the three-year-old… Read more »
In the final week of March 2023, the Future of Life Institute made headlines with its open letter, signed by some of the biggest names in tech, calling on all artificial intelligence (AI) labs to “immediately pause the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4”. It cited the need to allow safety research and… Read more »
Sydney broadband network analytics firm Canopus Networks, which helps telecommunications providers deliver low-latency lag-free gaming, has raised an additional US$3 million (AU$4.5M) in its Series A to take the total value of the round to US$10.6 million (A$15.7m). The latest round was led by US VC Konvoy Ventures, a gaming industry focused investor. Managing Partner… Read more »
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