Today’s Cache | Chatbots and mental health; Google infringed patents; Tech companies allege unfair cloud practices
1 year, 9 months ago

Today’s Cache | Chatbots and mental health; Google infringed patents; Tech companies allege unfair cloud practices

The Hindu  

Chatbots and mental health The increasing use of mental health chatbots powered by AI, due to stretched resources, is proving to be a double-edged sword. While some mental health counselors say that chatbots might simulate empathy when dealing with users, it’s not the same as real human empathy, a 2023 study by the American JAMA internal medicine journal found that bots’ answers were rated “significantly higher for quality and empathy” compared to that of physicians. Apart from empathy, privacy, and protection remain major risks for users with a Mozilla researcher describing chatbot apps as “data-sucking machines with a mental health app veneer” and that they could share personal information with third parties. Google infringed patents Alphabet-owned Google was ordered to pay $15.1 million for infringing two patents related to audio software owned by Personal Audio LLC, a Delaware federal jury said in a verdict. Tech companies allege unfair cloud practices Technology trade groups including Google have griped to the Federal Trade Commission about alleged unfair practices in the cloud, including by Microsoft.

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Thomson Reuters scores early win in AI copyright battles in the US
1 month, 1 week ago

Thomson Reuters scores early win in AI copyright battles in the US

Associated Press  

LOS ANGELES — Thomson Reuters has won an early battle in court over the question of fair use in artificial intelligence-related copyright cases. The media and technology company filed a lawsuit against Ross Intelligence — a now-defunct legal research firm — in 2020, arguing they had used materials from Thomson Reuters’ own legal platform Westlaw to train an AI model …

Google signs deal with AP to deliver up-to-date news through its Gemini AI chatbot
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2 months, 1 week ago

Google signs deal with AP to deliver up-to-date news through its Gemini AI chatbot

The Independent  

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Google says its artificial …

ChatGPT, Meta and Google generative AI should be designated 'high-risk' under new laws, bipartisan committee recommends
3 months, 3 weeks ago

ChatGPT, Meta and Google generative AI should be designated 'high-risk' under new laws, bipartisan committee recommends

ABC  

ChatGPT and Meta and Google's generative AI products should be designated "high risk" under dedicated artificial intelligence laws that could strictly regulate or even ban the most risky AI technologies. AI a high risk to democracy, workplace rights The committee specifically recommended that tools like OpenAI's ChatGPT, known as large language models, be "explicitly" included on a list of high-risk …

‘Off the record’ chats, messages copied to lawyer: How Google guided employees to dodge antitrust suits for 15 years
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4 months ago

‘Off the record’ chats, messages copied to lawyer: How Google guided employees to dodge antitrust suits for 15 years

Live Mint  

Google's battle against anti-trust suits: In 2008, Google faced increasing antitrust scrutiny over an advertising deal with its rival Yahoo, alongside lawsuits involving patent, trademark, and copyright issues. Google’s Move to Minimise Incriminating Comments from Employees The confidential memo sent out by Google executives revealed the company’s concerns about potential legal challenges. Google's 15-Year Culture of Deletion of Internal Communication …

Today’s Cache | LGBTQ+ Indians fight for safe space online; AI firms lose $190 billion in market cap after Google, Microsoft results; ChatGPT violates EU privacy laws
1 year, 1 month ago

Today’s Cache | LGBTQ+ Indians fight for safe space online; AI firms lose $190 billion in market cap after Google, Microsoft results; ChatGPT violates EU privacy laws

The Hindu  

LGBTQ+ Indians fight for safe space online Given how hard it is to be openly gay or transgender in India, these minority groups face even more pressure online because of weak content moderation that protects them against derogatory comments. AI firms lose billions of value after Big Tech results AI companies lost $190 billion in stock market value late in …

ChatGPT-maker braces for fight with New York Times and authors on 'fair use' of copyrighted works
1 year, 2 months ago

ChatGPT-maker braces for fight with New York Times and authors on 'fair use' of copyrighted works

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. THE RESPONSE OpenAI and Microsoft haven't yet filed formal …

ChatGPT-maker braces for fight with New York Times and authors on ‘fair use’ of copyrighted works
1 year, 2 months ago

ChatGPT-maker braces for fight with New York Times and authors on ‘fair use’ of copyrighted works

Associated Press  

A barrage of high-profile lawsuits in a New York federal court will test the future of ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence products that wouldn’t be so eloquent had they not ingested huge troves of copyrighted human works. THE RESPONSE OpenAI and Microsoft haven’t yet filed formal counter-arguments on the New York cases, but OpenAI made a public statement this week …

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says unfair practices by Google led to its dominance as search engine
1 year, 5 months ago

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says unfair practices by Google led to its dominance as search engine

The Hindu  

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has said that unfair tactics used by Google led to its dominance as a search engine, tactics that in turn have thwarted his company's rival programme, Bing. Google's lead litigator John Schmidtlein questioned Mr. Nadella about instances when users switched from Bing to Google even when Microsoft's search engine had default status on their devices — …

Microsoft CEO says unfair practices by Google led to its dominance as a search engine
1 year, 5 months ago

Microsoft CEO says unfair practices by Google led to its dominance as a search engine

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said Monday that unfair tactics used by Google led to its dominance as a search engine, tactics that in turn have thwarted his company’s rival program, Bing. Google’s lead litigator John Schmidtlein questioned Nadella about instances when users switched from Bing to Google even when Microsoft’s search engine had default status on their devices …

Today’s Cache | Microsoft announces devices and AI releases; AI companies making legally safer products; DuckDuckGo founder testifies against Google
1 year, 6 months ago

Today’s Cache | Microsoft announces devices and AI releases; AI companies making legally safer products; DuckDuckGo founder testifies against Google

The Hindu  

Microsoft announces devices and AI releases Microsoft this week announced the Surface Laptop Go 3, the Surface Laptop Studio 2, the Surface Go 4 For Business, and the Surface Hub 3 interactive whiteboard. Along with the hardware releases, the tech giant announced what it called a unified AI for Windows 11, named ‘Copilot.’ The new tool will be compatible with …

Why is Google on trial in the United States? | Explained
1 year, 6 months ago

Why is Google on trial in the United States? | Explained

The Hindu  

The story so far: On September 12, Justice Amit Mehta of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia started hearing what is being described as the most important case about the future of the Internet. The key allegation against Google is that its “arrangements” with Apple and other companies to be the default search engine on their devices, …

Today’s Cache| Google’s new AI conversational model; California settles with Google over location privacy practices; Tech leaders back AI regulations
1 year, 6 months ago

Today’s Cache| Google’s new AI conversational model; California settles with Google over location privacy practices; Tech leaders back AI regulations

The Hindu  

Google’s new AI conversational model Google has given a small group of companies access to an early version of its Gemini conversational artificial intelligence software. Tech leaders back AI regulations At a closed-door Senate forum, tech leaders loosely endorsed the idea of government regulations for artificial intelligence, but there is little consensus on what regulations would look like. Executives attending …

Google antitrust lawsuit 2023: The tech giant heads to court as Biden cracks down on monopolies
1 year, 6 months ago

Google antitrust lawsuit 2023: The tech giant heads to court as Biden cracks down on monopolies

The Telegraph  

Why is Google on trial? For the first time in decades, its search engine is under threat, not from a traditional competitor, but from artificial intelligence chatbots such as ChatGPT that could replace the cascade of links that Google’s search engine offers with concise and precise answers. The Justice Department argues that Google’s dominance – accounting for nine in 10 …

‘Dr. Google’ meets its match: Dr. ChatGPT
1 year, 6 months ago

‘Dr. Google’ meets its match: Dr. ChatGPT

LA Times  

As a fourth-year ophthalmology resident at Emory University School of Medicine, Dr. Riley Lyons’ biggest responsibilities include triage: When a patient comes in with an eye-related complaint, Lyons must make an immediate assessment of its urgency. Google.” Online, Lyons said, they are likely to find that “any number of terrible things could be going on based on the symptoms that …

Today’s Cache | Apple hit with class action lawsuit; Microsoft, Google bear the cost of AI; ChatGPT comes to Android
1 year, 7 months ago

Today’s Cache | Apple hit with class action lawsuit; Microsoft, Google bear the cost of AI; ChatGPT comes to Android

The Hindu  

Apple hit with class action lawsuit Apple is being targeted by a class action lawsuit seeking over $1 billion in damages from developers angry about the high price it charges to market the apps to users of its products. Microsoft, Google bear the cost of AI Tech giants including Microsoft and Google will have to make deeper investments before gains …

Google Faces Class-Action Lawsuit Over Allegedly Misusing Internet Data To Train Its AI Systems
1 year, 8 months ago

Google Faces Class-Action Lawsuit Over Allegedly Misusing Internet Data To Train Its AI Systems

ABP News  

A proposed class action lawsuit was filed against Google, accusing the company of misusing personal information and copyrighted material to train its artificial intelligence systems. In response, Google's general counsel, Halimah DeLaine Prado, clarified that the company has long been transparent about its use of data from public sources, such as openly available information and public datasets, to responsibly train …

Google sued in the U.S. over data scraping for AI
1 year, 8 months ago

Google sued in the U.S. over data scraping for AI

The Hindu  

Google is facing a class action lawsuit filed by eight plaintiffs in the U.S., who accused the search engine giant of stealing the creations of “hundreds of millions of Americans” to build products like the AI-powered chatbot Bard. According to the court filing dated July 11, the plaintiffs claimed that Google stole their data such as personal and professional content, …

Google faces class-action lawsuit over unauthorised data scraping for AI: Know more
1 year, 8 months ago

Google faces class-action lawsuit over unauthorised data scraping for AI: Know more

India TV News  

Google faces class-action lawsuit over unauthorised data scraping for AI: Know more OpenAI, led by Sam Altman, faced a similar class-action lawsuit for allegedly appropriating public data to train its AI chatbot, ChatGPT. Google is facing a class-action lawsuit accusing the company of unauthorised data scraping from millions of users through its AI tools. Similar to a previous lawsuit against …

Tech companies including Google gripe about unfair cloud practices
1 year, 9 months ago

Tech companies including Google gripe about unfair cloud practices

The Hindu  

Technology trade groups as well as Alphabet's Google have griped to the Federal Trade Commission about allegedly unfair business practices in the cloud, including by the industry's No. "Despite vibrant competition in the cloud industry, a few vendors use anticompetitive practices in order to entrench their position, most often by preventing customers from switching providers in search of lower costs, …

Google hit with $15 million verdict in U.S. trial over audio patents
1 year, 9 months ago

Google hit with $15 million verdict in U.S. trial over audio patents

The Hindu  

Alphabet's Google must pay patent holding company Personal Audio LLC $15.1 million for infringing two patents related to audio software, a Delaware federal jury said in a verdict made public on Wednesday. Personal Audio had argued that Google's music app Google Play Music featured playlist downloading, navigation and editing features that violated its patent rights. A spokesperson for Personal Audio's …

Google CEO worries AI could be harmful if deployed wrongly
1 year, 11 months ago

Google CEO worries AI could be harmful if deployed wrongly

The Hindu  

Google CEO Sundar Pichai said on Sunday that he was worried about the need to deploy AI technology quickly, and also feared it might be used to cause harm. And we don’t have all the answers there yet and the technology is moving fast.” He further stressed on avoiding what he called “race conditions”, where people developing AI products across …

U.S. court sanctions Google for deleting evidence in antitrust cases
1 year, 11 months ago

U.S. court sanctions Google for deleting evidence in antitrust cases

The Hindu  

Alphabet Inc.'s Google LLC intentionally destroyed employee "chat" evidence in antitrust litigation in California and must pay sanctions and face a possible penalty at trial, a U.S. judge ruled on Tuesday. U.S. District Judge James Donato in San Francisco said in his order that Google "fell strikingly short" in its duties to preserve records. In a court filing last year, …

Chatbots Got Big—and Their Ethical Red Flags Got Bigger
2 years, 1 month ago

Chatbots Got Big—and Their Ethical Red Flags Got Bigger

Wired  

In the weeks following the release of OpenAI’s viral chatbot ChatGPT late last year, Google AI chief Jeff Dean expressed concern that deploying a conversational search engine too quickly might pose a reputational risk for Alphabet. Sarah Bird, Microsoft’s head of responsible AI, acknowledged that the bot could still “hallucinate” untrue information but said the technology had been made more …

Google warns against 'hallucinating' AI chatbots: Report
2 years, 1 month ago

Google warns against 'hallucinating' AI chatbots: Report

Hindustan Times  

The boss of Google's search engine warned against the pitfalls of artificial intelligence in chatbots in a newspaper interview published on Saturday, as Google parent company Alphabet battles to compete with blockbuster app ChatGPT. Google logo "This kind of artificial intelligence we're talking about right now can sometimes lead to something we call hallucination," Prabhakar Raghavan, senior vice president at …

Google's new AI bot made a gaffe because it was 'rushed' out to compete with ChatGPT, experts say
2 years, 1 month ago

Google's new AI bot made a gaffe because it was 'rushed' out to compete with ChatGPT, experts say

Daily Mail  

Google's new AI chatbot made an embarrassing gaffe because it was 'rushed' out ahead of schedule amid growing competition from ChatGPT and Microsoft, tech industry experts claimed today. Tech industry experts say that Google was 'rushed' into announcing Bard, its chatbot powered by artificial intelligence, to rival the revolutionary ChatGPT ChatGPT is a large language model that has been trained …

Google parent Alphabet loses $100 billion market value after it’s AI chatbot ‘Bard’ gives wrong answer in an advertisement
2 years, 1 month ago

Google parent Alphabet loses $100 billion market value after it’s AI chatbot ‘Bard’ gives wrong answer in an advertisement

Op India  

On Wednesday, shares of the parent comapny of the search engine Google plummeted and the company lost $ 100 billion in market value as its new chatbot, Bard, displayed false information in a promotional video. Built using our large language models and drawing on information from the web, it’s a launchpad for curiosity and can help simplify complex topics → …

Investors’ query: Can Google answer Microsoft’s AI threat?
2 years, 1 month ago

Investors’ query: Can Google answer Microsoft’s AI threat?

Associated Press  

SAN FRANCISCO — Google, a company built on finding quick answers to people’s questions, suddenly finds itself grappling for a response to a potential threat to its internet empire — a form of artificial intelligence that long-time rival Microsoft is now deploying to attack its dominant search engine. It contrasted with a much more polished and well-reviewed showcase of Microsoft’s …

Google Invests $400 Million In ChatGPT-Rival Anthropic In A Bid To Launch Own Chatbot: Report
2 years, 1 month ago

Google Invests $400 Million In ChatGPT-Rival Anthropic In A Bid To Launch Own Chatbot: Report

ABP News  

After investing around $400 million in OpenAI's ChatGPT rival Anthropic, Google has announced the release of its own chatbot for the public in "the coming weeks and months" after the remarkable performance and success of ChatGPT. Google CEO Sundar Pichai said the use of AI had arrived at an "inflection point" and that the tech giant was "extremely well positioned" …

ChatGPT Rival? Google May Introduce AI-Chatbot Competitor In May
2 years, 2 months ago

ChatGPT Rival? Google May Introduce AI-Chatbot Competitor In May

ABP News  

Tech giant Google is preparing to introduce at least 20 artificial intelligence -powered tools and a search chatbot during its annual developer conference in May this year, amid pressure from OpenAI's ChatGPT. Google CEO Sundar Pichai has declared a "code red" and boosted AI development, as the tech giant sees ChatGPT as a threat to its search business. "Pichai reportedly …

Google under new EU antitrust investigation
3 years, 6 months ago

Google under new EU antitrust investigation

The Hindu  

Alphabet Inc's Google is facing a renewed EU antitrust investigation into whether it may have forced device manufacturers to use Google Assistant as the default voice assistant on Android devices, an MLex reporter tweeted. The latest investigation comes amid concerns of potential anti-competitive practices in the race for market dominance among Amazon's Alexa, Apple's Siri and Google Assistant. Google is …

Tech Antitrust Report: Google Monopolizing Search & Restrictive Android Agreements Concern Regulators
4 years, 5 months ago

Tech Antitrust Report: Google Monopolizing Search & Restrictive Android Agreements Concern Regulators

News 18  

In what can only be described as a first of its kind report, the Subcommittee On Antitrust, Commercial And Administrative Law Of The Committee Of The Judiciary of the US Congress has released its conclusions and recommendations on whether the big tech companies such as Google, Apple, Amazon and Facebook are violating the antitrust laws. Google has faced fire in …

World's Most Innovative Patent Troll Sues the Government
11 years, 2 months ago

World's Most Innovative Patent Troll Sues the Government

Wired  

It's no surprise when a patent troll sues a big tech company like Apple and Google. An outfit called MPHJ has filed a "preemptive" lawsuit against the FTC, claiming the government agency is unlawfully interfering with the company's right to enforce its patents, as first reported by Ars Technica. The suit shows that patent trolls are still expanding their bag …

Google buys out 1000 patents from IBM
13 years, 6 months ago

Google buys out 1000 patents from IBM

Firstpost  

With a steady rise in the number of patent infringement cases, every major corporation out there is in the race for getting itself the best possible technology patented. Now, according to a PCMag report, search giant, Google has in a bid to further boost its patent portfolio bought out as many as 1,000 patents from IBM, as per records maintained …

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