A kerfuffle between movie star Scarlett Johansson and OpenAI over ChatGPT's new personal assistant voice, which the actress alleges closely resembles her own, represents a new stage in the automated versus autonomous debate. The post Scarlett Johansson’s Spat with OpenAI Reveals Deeper Conflicts over Technology appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.
The current litigation highlights a fundamental divide over AI: While the newspapers regard ChatGPT and its ilk as mere automatons that mindlessly perform whatever operations they're programmed to perform, Microsoft and OpenAI present their technology as genuinely autonomous. The post Yet Another AI Copyright Suit Against OpenAI Underscores the Autonomy-Automaton Divide appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.
The New York Times Company surprised many with the late December copyright infringement lawsuit it filed against OpenAI. Now the artificial intelligence (AI) giant has struck back, filing a motion to dismiss last week that casts light on fundamental differences in how we understand AI. The post OpenAI Strikes Back at New York Times in Copyright Spat, Deepening the Philosophical Dispute appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.
At the heart of the New York Times's lawsuit against OpenAI is the autonomy-automation dichotomy—the battle between the two paradigms when it comes to artificial intelligence will be critical in determining which party prevails. The post OpenAI-New York Times Copyright Fight Further Illustrates Autonomy-Automaton Dichotomy appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.
Congressional action on patent reform aimed at jumpstarting innovation and the economy may still occur as members head into an election year and seek to demonstrate their accomplishments. The post Where Does Patent Reform Stand as 2023 Comes to a Close? appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.
Mainstream media outlets' struggle to counter misinformation about Israel and Hamas has worsened the spread of falsehoods on social media platforms. The post A Few Suggestions for Social Media Giants Struggling to Handle the Hamas Assault on Israeli Civilians, Part II appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.
Social media platforms have a duty to productively contribute to the global conversation surrounding Hamas' attack on Israel while also working against the spread of harmful misinformation and abuse on their platforms. The post A Few Suggestions for Social Media Giants Struggling to Handle the Hamas Assault on Israeli Civilians, Part I appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.
A federal court denied copyright protection to a work of AI-generated art, ruling that human creativity remains essential for copyright eligibility. The post US District Court Rejects AI-Generated Content as Not Copyrightable appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.
Countries around the world should take notes from Japan's forward-looking AI approach, which balances innovation, rationality, and regulation. The post Japanese AI Advances Offer Lessons for the Rest of the World appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.
The new Mission Impossible installment's plot raises timely questions about controlling powerful AI, now under aggressive FTC investigation, but heavy-handed regulation could forfeit its benefits. The post AI Dystopia Hits the Big Screen—and the FTC appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.
Things are heating up on patent reform in Congress, but will it go the distance? The post Inside Congress' Hot Patent Summer appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.
The Supreme Court delivered unanimous opinions on intellectual property rights, reaffirming the importance of IP basics. The post Supreme Court's Latest Intellectual Property Rulings Return to Basics appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.
The Supreme Court has decided to not decide on how Section 230 applies to the online platforms of today. The post In Twitter and Google Cases, Supreme Court Avoids Section 230 Pronouncements appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.
"Michael Rosen shows how the redemptive hope of religion became the redemptive hope of historical progress. This was the heart of German Idealism: purpose lay not in God's judgment but in worldly projects; freedom required not being subject to arbitrary authority, human or divine. Yet purpose and freedom never shed their theistic structure"--
A bold and beautifully written exploration of the "afterlife" of God, showing how apparently secular habits of mind in fact retain the structure of religious thought. Once in the West, our lives were bounded by religion. Then we were guided out of the darkness of faith, we are often told, by the cold light of science and reason. To be modern was to reject the religious for the secular and rational. In a bold retelling of philosophical history, Michael Rosen explains the limits of this story, showing that many modern and apparently secular ideas were in fact profoundly shaped by religion. The key thinkers, Rosen argues, were the German Idealists, as they sought to reconcile faith and reason. It was central to Kant's philosophy that, if God is both just and assigns us to heaven or hell for eternity, we must know what is required of us and be able to choose freely. As we thus pursue the moral law, Kant argued, we are engaged in a collective enterprise as members of a "Church invisible" working together to achieve justice in history. As later Idealists moved away from Kant's ideas about personal immortality, this idea of "historical immortality" took center stage. Through social projects that outlive us we maintain a kind of presence after death. Conceptions of historical immortality moved not just into the universalistic ideologies of liberalism and revolutionary socialism but into nationalist and racist doctrines that opposed them. But how, after global wars and genocide, can we retain faith in any conception of shared moral progress? That is our present predicament. A seamless blend of philosophy and intellectual history, The Shadow of God is a profound exploration of secular modernity's theistic inheritance
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