Techstrong News Recap – July 11, 2023

Hi again, everyone. Here are the headlines for July 11th. First up, the United Nations International Telecommunication Union organized a groundbreaking news conference featuring humanoid social robots to foster discussions about the future of artificial intelligence.

The event showcased nine robots, including Sophia, the UN DPS first Robot Innovation ambassador in Grace, a healthcare robot. The purpose was to demonstrate the capabilities and limitations of robotics in relations to the UN sustainable development goals. The robots accompanied by their creators or companions, answered questions from reporters emphasizing their potential efficiency as leaders, while assuring they wouldn't replace human jobs or revolt.

Although it was unclear to the extent of which the robot's responses were scripted. The event aims to highlight human machine collaboration and explore the potential of AI, as well as, I guess, lessen the fears of AI taking over. Next, China has imposed over 1 billion in fines on financial companies for violations of consumer protection laws and corporate governance ant group operator payments from the firm.

Alipay is one of the main targets of the regulatory campaign. Chinese government's actions reflect concerns about risky lending and the desire to assert greater state control over the economy. Zooming out the tech sector in China has faced increased scrutiny recently with several companies, including Alibaba, Tencent, and Diddy, receiving hefty fines.

This being said, the announcement signals the ends of China's crackdown on the tech sector and a shift towards normalized supervision. Alibaba's US listed shares surge following the news. Reflecting optimism at the crackdown is concluding.

In other news comedian Sarah Silverman, along with authors Christopher Golden and Richard Cadre have filed separate lawsuits against OpenAI and Meta in a US district court alleging copyright infringement. The suit claims that open AI's Chat, G BT and Meta's Lama were trained on data sets acquired from Shadow Library websites containing their works, which were made available via Torrent systems. Exhibits presented in the OpenAI suit demonstrate how chat G P T can summarize the author's books without reproducing copyright information.

Though the lawsuit against Meta Asserts that the authors books were accessible in data sets used to train the LAMA models, the authors claim they did not consent to the use of their copyrighted works being used. Additionally, their lawsuits include multiple accounts of copyright violations, negligence, unjust enrichment, and unfair competition. Zooming out these lawsuits are some of the first of their kind and are expected to challenge the boundaries of copyright law and have implications for the AI industry.

Next up, Google has announced that it's AI tool Med Palm two designed to provide medical information has been undergoing testing at the Mayo Clinic Research Hospital and other institutions since April of this year. Med Palm two is an updated version of Palm two, the language model behind Google's Bard. The tool aims to assist countries with limited access to doctors by offering healthcare conversations based on a curated set of medical expert demonstrations.

Additionally, Google assures that its customers testing Med Palm two will have control over their encrypted data while ensuring privacy. While Med Palm two demonstrated promising performance and reasoning consensus supported answers and comprehension, a study revealed inaccuracies in irrelevant information compared to other human physicians. Although it's still in its early stages, Google believes that Med Palm two can significantly enhance the healthcare industry.

com, we have an article looking at how Loft Labs has made its tool for creating dev environments open source. With Loft labs, making dev pod and open source software teams can now manage developer environments as code more easily than other side server side alternatives. com.

On Digital Cxl, we have an article examining how AI is transforming contract management. AI and automation hold a huge amount of potential in regards to contract lifecycle management, and there are even several things that AI can help legal professionals with today. This article looks at three practical ways to use AI for contract lifecycle management.

com. Finally, on Security Boulevard, we have a blog watch looking at a critical bug in solar view's, solar power monitoring product. For 14 months, hundreds of energy companies could have been exposed to an attack from a vulnerability, and this article looks at the community's reaction to this story.

com, and that's today's text. Strong news recap.