AIIF Activities

This Masterclass event will be hybrid on July 9, 2024, at 18:30 (Japan time). For access: contact@aiindustryfoundation.org. —- This week, we welcome guest speaker Gemini Group. Japan is setting a bold course to become the world's most AI-friendly nation….

AI Consciousness is a Big Deal. Blake Lemoine famously left Google in 2022 because he thought that LaMDA was conscious. Anthropic’s Claude has a terrible habit of claiming to be conscious in long conversations. Science fiction is full of stories of conscious AIs being enslaved and mistreated by humans. Is that what we’re doing right now??…

This Masterclass event will be Virtual Only on June 25, 2024, at 17:00 (Japan time). For access: contact@aiindustryfoundation.org. —- Were you surprised by a sudden advance in large language model capabilities? These sudden advances are often called “emergent”, a word usually used when a strange thing arises from a large number of normal things:…

On April 5th, Freshfields published a comprehensive 7,000+ overview article entitled “Artificial Intelligence in the Legal Industry – Potential, Pitfalls and How to Make it Work in Real Life”. It’s good, and recommendable for all its deep context. But let’s drill in how useful ChatGPT is in this situation. Say you know much of the context or don’t want to, and you want to read a summary. Do…

Politics Law is politics by other means and so, as lawyers, let’s widen our field of view. The industrial revolution fundamentally changed society by introducing mass production, new economic models, and significant shifts in labour dynamics. It also created opportunities for idealists to politically advocate for labour rights, social welfare, and economic equality, forming the foundation of the modern political left….

This Masterclass event will be held on June 11, 2024, at 16:00 (Japan time). Hybrid (online and in-person) access is available. For access: contact@aiindustryfoundation.org. —- In 1937, Claude Shannon's master's thesis used Boolean algebra to logically analyze electromechanical circuits – connecting electromechanical engineers to mathematicians and logicians, changing "digital circuit design from an art to a science" (Goldstine)….

The exploitation of a copyrighted works for use in training generative AI appears to be permitted in Japan, with a few reasonable caveats. This puts Japan into a very, very small group of countries where, even for commercial AI training on copyrighted data, copyright infringement is reasonably unlikely….

This Masterclass event will be held on June 4, 2024, at 18:30 (Japan time). Hybrid (online and in-person) access is available. For access: contact@aiindustryfoundation.org. —- The deployment and use of AI introduce several new data governance challenges for organizations. These challenges include ensuring data quality, maintaining privacy and security, and complying with regulatory frameworks. While most CEOs prioritize implementing AI solutions, they are also concerned about these data governance issues….

This Masterclass event will be held on May 28, 2024, at 16:00 (Japan time). Hybrid (online and in-person) access is available. For access: contact@aiindustryfoundation.org. —- Japan's AI and copyright rules are a big deal right now. We’re going to get into some issues around copyright infringement during AI development and use from a…

Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google, was on MSNBC on May 7 to say that AI is “under-hyped”. Is there support for more to come from AI in the 2024 AI Index Annual Report? Schmidt said: “The arrival of intelligence of a non-human form is a really big deal for the world … It’s coming, it’s here, it’s about to happen, it happens in stages. We used to say 20 years, now [we say] within 5. And the reason is the scaling laws for these systems are continuing to go up without any loss or degradation of power.”…

I’ve been a bit derailed in the past day by the release of GPT-4o (“o” for Omni). It’s free to the public—go get it. It’s really, really good. So good that I’ve been viscerally reminded of the motivation to continue to work on AI and its relationship with the law. It’s both the terror and the opportunity….

This Masterclass event will be held on May 21, 2024, at 16:00 (Japan time). Hybrid (online and in-person) access is available. For access: contact@aiindustryfoundation.org. —- For this Masterclass, we have a special guest speaker: Wim Kees Janssen – founder & CEO of…