🤖 The Harry Potter Test For Data

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• The Harry Potter tests illustrate data leverage

• Call of Duty wants AI to make it less toxic

• Cohere wants more money

• VCs are cooling on their AI investing spree

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Let’s talk about copyright and data leverage using Harry Potter.

Many lawsuits are hanging in the air, jeopardizing all the work startups do to build AI models. But how important are these copyrighted books and articles?

That measurement is called “data leverage.”

Think of every Large Language Model as a gigantic Jenga tower that stacks layer upon layer of information. You can remove some of those blocks and be okay. However, some of them are crucial to keeping the whole thing standing.

Are those blocks more valuable and, therefore, deserve some sort of compensation? That feels fair, but how do we stress-test these information networks to find those blocks?

That’s where Harry Potter comes in.

Researchers conducted a test with Harry Potter books where they tested a variety of models with only one variable: the number of Harry Potter books included in the dataset.

It turns out that missing even one book caused a noticeable downgrade in performance. But don’t go handing a paycheck over to JK Rowling quite yet.

That’s one experiment with one type of model.

It’s relatively apparent that AI can’t answer questions about a subject it doesn’t have data on, and we’re far away from a straightforward way to measure data leverage.

So keep an eye on this concept because it’s bound to come up in future lawsuits and copyright arguments. It’s been a part of fair use since the dawn of the justice system.

How much replication of a piece is too much replication? It’s the same debate we had with sampling and collages. This argument is far from new and not even close to settled.

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If you’ve spent time in a Call of Duty lobby, you know how toxic they are.

That’s why the developers behind the game are searching for a way to moderate harassment and hate speech in CoD because it keeps people from wanting to play the game. The solution revolves around an AI tool called ToxMod (what a great name).

ToxMod listens to lobbies and flags inappropriate conversations.

This tech sounds simple at first glance, but ToxMod is doing more than listening for keywords. The AI monitors speech volume and pace to determine how friendly the banter is.

Raising your voice matters as much as what you say, which is a novel way to approach game moderation.

However, the tool isn’t there to suspend players and dole out sentences.

ToxMod flags the transgressions and sends them to human moderators to handle. It’s a brilliant blend of human-machine cooperation.

If this works, maybe, MAYBE, I’ll try my hand at CoD again; I just can’t handle being called a noob with a loose mother every five seconds, you know?

🏦 Cohere hires a bank to help them raise another round of cash

📽️ Runway CEO argues that AI will bring forth another golden age of cinema

📉 VCs are cooling on the hope that generative AI startups can pull the market out of this slump

🗺️ An AI-generated map highlights spots where climate change projects are making an impact

🧠 The brain behind a bunch of AI copyright suits has one goal, and that’s to show that his AI is sentient

📈 Salesforce shares jump up by 6% after their AI product rollout garners good attention

⚙️ Floworks wants to build an AI to help workers figure out software

🇪🇺 Aleph Alpha is the EU’s answer to OpenAI

• Checksum - generates & maintains end-to-end tests based on user sessions (link)

• ioni - boost your customer support productivity (link)

• BlogSEO - generate SEO-ready articles for your products (link)

• Meiro - AI-powered builder for quizzes, tests & text games (link)

• Flavored Resume - rewrite a resume to match job descriptions (link)

• WorkGPT - chatbot-based virtual assistant (link)

• Vispunk - AI images w/ perfect composition via drag-and-drop (link)

• Checklistgenerator - checklist creation tool (link)

Sonic But Make It Fashion(?)

I’m not a designer, but I don’t know if this would make the runway. Tim Gunn, if you’re reading, we’re so sorry.

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