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Bill Gates Predicts the Future of AI in 2024 🔮
+ AI Can't Own Patents, Rules UK Supreme Court
Gina Acosta
December 20, 2023
Welcome to another edition of Horizon AI,
Bill Gates reflects on this year and makes some bold predictions about the future of AI, highlighting how it can potentially affect people’s lives and help accelerate innovation across various sectors.
In the UK, a landmark case has come to an end, addressing the question of whether AI can hold patent rights for inventions.
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Here's what's new today in the Horizon AI
A Chart to Kickstart Your Day 📈: Americans predict the impact of AI on jobs
Bill Gates Predicts the Future of AI in 2024 🔮
AI Can't Own Patents, Rules UK Supreme Court
AI Tutorial: Generate AI songs with Microsoft Copilot
Trending AI Tool of the day: Moonbeam, your long-form writing AI assistant
AI Image of The Day🎨: Diving is fun!
The Latest in AI and Tech 💡
A chart to kickstart your day
Poll: Americans predict the impact of AI on jobs
Source: Chartr
Details:
Over half of Americans believe that AI will have a major impact on professions such as journalists, graphic designers, and software engineers in the next 20 years.
However, only 19% believe their own jobs will be significantly impacted, while 27% think there will be no impact on them at all.
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BILL GATES
Bill Gates Predicts the Future of AI in 2024 🔮
Source: GatesNotes.com
In a candid reflection on the challenges and triumphs of 2023, Bill Gates shares insights into the evolving landscape of artificial intelligence. Here are the key takeaways from his recent thoughts on AI and its transformative potential for the next year.
Key Insights:
Bill Gates believes that AI will play a pivotal role in improving access to education, mental health, and more, asserting that this technology holds the potential to "help reduce inequities we see around the world."
Gates envisions AI accelerating the pace of new discoveries at an unprecedented rate, particularly in the realm of drug discovery.
Currently, he is exploring ways to harness AI to combat antibiotic resistance, provide personalized AI tutors to students, and assist in high-risk pregnancies.
He anticipates significant AI adoption in high-income countries like the US within 18–24 months and a comparable level of AI integration in African countries within three years.
Bill Gates remains optimistic about the unparalleled speed of AI innovation and is hopeful about its positive impact on people's lives.
AI IN LAW
AI Can't Own Patents, Rules UK Supreme Court
The UK Supreme Court made a landmark ruling this week. The ruling came in the case of Dr. Stephen Thaler, who attempted to register patents for two inventions created by his AI system called DABUS (Device for the Autonomous Bootstrapping of Unified Sentience).
Key details:
Dr. Thaler's bid to register AI-generated patents was initially rejected by the UK Intellectual Property Office. He appealed to the Supreme Court, which unanimously ruled against him
The ruling states AI systems cannot be considered inventors under current UK patent law, which defines an inventor as a natural person
The court did not rule out the possibility of expanding the patent system in the future to accommodate technical advances generated by autonomously acting machines powered by AI
Dr. Thaler previously lost a similar case in the US, where the Supreme Court declined to hear his challenge to the Patent Office's refusal
The ruling currently maintains human inventors at the center of the patent system, as AI is currently regarded as a tool rather than an agent, and that's not likely to change in the near future.
AI Tutorial
Generate AI songs with Microsoft Copilot
Source: Microsoft
Microsoft Copilot now works with the Suno music app to help users come up with their own songs. You can tell Copilot what you want, like "Make a pop song about family adventures," and with Suno's help, it turns your ideas into original music. Here’s how to start using this new feature:
Sign in to Copilot with your Microsoft account
Enable the Suno Plugin
Create songs based on any text prompt.
Suno will generate an original song, usually a minute or two in length, and provide a complete transcript of the lyrics.
Trending AI Tool
Moonbeam: your long-form writing AI assistant
Source: Moonbeam
Moonbeam is the only AI writing assistant specifically trained to help you write essays, stories, articles, blogs, and other long form content.
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GPT-4 powered Smart Chat
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AI Image of The Day
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AI predicts the risk of early death based on life stories
Source: NewScientist
The new AI tool Life2vec, trained on full life histories of 6 million Danes, can predict the risk of premature death better than current models, even those used in the insurance industry. By analyzing health, jobs, and income over time, it forecasts life trajectories and mortality. This tool is intended to enable early intervention for health and social problems.
Jaxon and IBM team up to tackle AI hallucinations
Source: IBM
Jaxon AI is taking on a pressing AI challenge - hallucinations in large language models - through a collaboration with IBM. Leveraging the capabilities of watsonX, IBM's AI and Data platform with AI Assistants, Jaxon's developer-friendly system aims to mitigate inaccuracies associated with hallucinations. By targeting inaccuracies, the startup aims to pave the way for more reliable and trustworthy AI across enterprises.
Stability AI introduces a paid membership for the commercial use of its models
Source: Stability AI
Stability AI, the developer of the text-to-image model Stable Diffusion, unveiled a subscription service for the commercial use of its AI models. The tiers aim to balance open source access with profitability to fund ongoing R&D. While base models remain free for personal use, creatives and companies can now pay for additional capabilities and support. This comes after there had been some rumors about Stability AI's financial instability.
That’s a wrap!