article thumbnail

The New York Times wants OpenAI and Microsoft to pay for training data

TechCrunch

The New York Times is suing OpenAI and its close collaborator (and investor), Microsoft, for allegedly violating copyright law by training generative AI models on Times’ content. All rights reserved.

Training 356
article thumbnail

Zoom knots itself a legal tangle over use of customer data for training AI models

TechCrunch

The recent terms & conditions controversy sequence goes like this: A clause added to Zoom’s legalese back in March 2023 grabbed attention on Monday after a post on Hacker News claimed it allowed the company to use customer data to train AI models “with no opt out” Cue outrage on social media.

Training 246
article thumbnail

Article: Testing Machine Learning: Insight and Experience from Using Simulators to Test Trained Functionality

InfoQ Culture Methods

The data used in training is where the functionality is ultimately defined, and that is where you will find your issues and bugs. When testing machine learning systems, we must apply existing test processes and methods differently. By Martin Karsberg

article thumbnail

OpenAI defeats news outlets’ copyright lawsuit over AI training, for now

Ooda Loop

A New York federal judge on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit against artificial intelligence giant OpenAI that claimed it misused articles from news outlets Raw Story and AlterNet to train its large language models.

article thumbnail

The Best Leadership Articles of 2021 (according to you)

Let's Grow Leaders

Your Favorite Leadership Articles of the Year. These are your favorite leadership articles of 2021 based on views and shares. What was your favorite article of the year? What leadership articles would you like us to write about more in the coming year? And… Our Most Popular Leadership Article of All Time.

article thumbnail

Efficient continual pre-training LLMs for financial domains

AWS Machine Learning - AI

Large language models (LLMs) are generally trained on large publicly available datasets that are domain agnostic. For example, Meta’s Llama models are trained on datasets such as CommonCrawl , C4 , Wikipedia, and ArXiv. The resulting LLM outperforms LLMs trained on non-domain-specific datasets when tested on finance-specific tasks.

article thumbnail

Article: Thoughtfully training SRE apprentices: Establishing Padawan and Jedi matches

InfoQ Culture Methods

This article shares how Padawans and Jedis can inspire and teach us how to help people of a wide variety of backgrounds, ages, and experience levels to observe and understand failures in production. It covers practical lessons learned and shares how you can create and rollout a program for SRE Apprentices within your organization.

Training 117