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AI Use Cases - according to analysts

Business analysts all have their own theories and predictions on GenAI. One evergreen is “summarization”, perhaps gleaned from Model Cards. Same for the recent Forrester event in Milan: The other main reason consumers are using AI, in Italy but especially in Germany, is to summarize something. My observation is different: Anecdotally, ra... Read more

[UPDATED] Sora

description: “Discusses Sora’s autonomous AI agent architecture for research assistance, outlining data retrieval workflows, hypothesis generation, and tool integration.” layout: post title: “OpenAI Sora: the next art revolution?” date: 2024-02-15 last_updated: 2024-02-15 tags: [openai, sora, art] — So Sora is making waves, prompting "AI Doomsa... Read more

USPTO: Inventorship Guidance for AI-Assisted Inventions

Guidance by the United States Patent and Trademark Office, released on Feb 13: Federal Register Money quote: However, a significant contribution could be shown by the way the person constructs the prompt in view of a specific problem to elicit a particular solution from the AI system. (German tech press article: Heise) Read more

Vision prompt injection

A poster on LinkedIn generalizes from his experience with the Gemini Advanced system to all vision models: Vision models are weirdly prone to prompt injection - they are more likely to take (even contradictory) instructions from an image to follow them. I couldn’t reproduce this: Not reproducible with the Gemini Pro Vision model via Goog... Read more

[UPDATED] Legal Co Writing

description: “Examines AI-assisted legal co-writing workflows, highlighting document drafting, compliance checking, collaboration features, and ethical considerations.” layout: post title: “Legal co-writing” date: 2024-02-24 last_updated: 2024-02-24 tags: [copilot, openai, claude] — A German lawyer asked on LinkedIn about collaborative writing ... Read more