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@Xavier @askew This is interesting. I have many questions. What do you mean when you mention gas costs? Is the AI not powered through your electricity bill? Or are you making an environmental statement about how much carbon emissions this would equate to running this agentic AI farm?

Yesterday I attended a @SamsungUK event in celebration of International Women’s Day and conversations about AI and women, where Samsung demonstrated how agentic AI is being used in their new S26 Ultra smartphones in new features.

These included further integration with Google Gemini for a more intuitive search engine to help reduce barriers to information, and NowNudge, an internal operating system feature that helps sum up WhatsApp messages, reminds users about meetings and helps the user to retrieve info and images on their device quickly.

I love learning about new tech and find it really interesting to attend events like this because you get to see not just what tech companies are doing, but also how they are explaining it to consumers and the words and framing they use.

And when there’s a particularly good product demonstrator or spokesperson like Patrick below, I love highlighting their explanations.

So in the interests of transparency and public learning, I invite you to be a fly on the wall and see from my POV in this quick video what I learned

#AI #agenticAI #Samsung #SamsungS26Ultra #GoogleGemini #technology #technews

Today the House of Lords has published an report on their inquiry into #AI and its impact on copyright and the creative industries, which lists some very sensible reasons why AI needs to be better regulated

This relates closely to what I said on @BBCNews 2 weeks ago, that the House of Lords has consistently raised concerns about creative imagery being devalued and used by AI models for free in bills, yet somehow these bills disappear into nothing when they get to Parliament

Full report: https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld5901/ldselect/ldcomm/267/267.pdf

TL;DR in short, they found that:

The answers produced by AI are not based on it learning anything, and thus shouldn’t be treated as such

Gov UK needs to strengthen licensing, transparency & enforcement of copyright law, not weaken it

Gov UK's mixed messaging regarding AI is creating big problems, including undermining investment

Gov UK needs to issue a "clear public statement" that commercial AI developers need to obtain licences in order to use copyrighted works to train AI models

My analysis ️:

For some very strange reason, we don’t seem to value imagery, which makes no sense given copyright laws today.

The datasets used to train AI clearly need to be legislated. The reason that images were used to train AI models in the first place was to enable the AI to be able to differentiate different objects in a photo - i.e. to understand the difference between a car, a tree, a child, the grass in the background and the sky.

But AI models were never meant to replace creativity, art, design and illustration industries, the film industry, video games etc. All of these things are licensed and copyrighted. So why is nobody doing anything?

Why are we allowing computer algorithms to replace human expression when we have always enforced IP on human-created materials?

All governments should enforce legislation on the datasets being used to train the AI and I predict that firms in these industries and multiple other affected industries relating to text IP will eventually cobble together and sue these tech giants.

Because the alternative literally doesn’t make any sense.

#Copyright #HouseofLords #LLMs #technews #technology #UKlaw #analysis

Just been on @bbcworld news channel discussing with Kasia Madera about Instagram’s new rollout of a feature that alerts parents if their kids are searching for self-harm and suicide-related content (which, let’s be honest, they’re not doing that…)

If we’re being real, it’s much easier to find that kind of content on the internet, and while Meta definitely knows what users are searching for on their mobile device web browsers, it would be going down a slippery slope for us to permit further tracking and surveillance of children and young people, and eventually break GDPR etc.

So the only solution I can actually see would be to skip over that and just let the under-16s social media ban go through.

I’ll be on @BBC5Live in an hour to discuss the same thing.

#technology #technews #Instagram #privacy #socialmediaban #meta