Zoom claims their AI isn’t stealing data, T&C’s disagree?
PLUS: The Bing Research Prompt For Academics
Martin Crowley & Arturo Ferreira
August 08, 2023
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💡Training: The Bing Research prompt for Academics
🧠 News: Zoom under scrutiny for suspect AI practices
Read Time: 4 minutes
Our Report: Zoom has announced that its AI models will not train on audio, video, or text chats without customer consent, but their terms of service suggest otherwise…
🔑 Key Points:
The company is actively marketing new AI-powered features, such as tools to help catch up on missed meetings or assist in composing messages
Two specific sections in Zoom’s terms of service, 10.2 and 10.4, discuss how Zoom can handle user data, including granting a perpetual license for purposes like machine learning and AI.
A new statement has been added stating that Zoom will not use customer content, including audio, video, or chat, to train its AI models without consent.
Who should we believe?
🤨 Why you should care: This development comes at a time when sneaky data privacy practices from large companies are becoming more commonplace. Stay vigilant out there, everyone!
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📈 Sustainable Growth
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“My startup has achieved initial success and is ready to scale. Design a growth strategy focusing on sustainability, social responsibility, and ethical considerations. Balance rapid expansion with long-term viability. Include aspects like target markets, organizational structure, partnerships, financial planning, and social impact”
🔬 Academic Research
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“List 3 different peer-reviewed studies concerning 'XYZ' and for each study list in bullet point format:
1. Date of publication
2. A summary of the abstract and conclusion
3. The main author
4. MLA citation”
🎨 Impressionism
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“Blurry brushstrokes,” “Painted light,” “Impressionistic landscapes,” “Pastel colors,” “Impressionistic portraits.”
Microsoft is set to expand Bing Chat to third-party browsers, including mobile devices, to enhance competition across AI platforms.
The launch date for third-party support is currently undisclosed; thus you’ll probably still have the best experience on the Microsoft Edge browser for now. We’re massive fans so this is huge to be able to use Bing in Chrome!
San Francisco is at a crossroads with self-driving cars as a state agency prepares to vote on their expansion in the city. Notably, Tesla has received pushback from lawmakers, with many citing safety concerns.
Interestingly, it comes at a time when Toyota announced a partnership with Chinese automotive groups to roll out FSD AI fleets in China.
Peter Thiel’s data analysis firm—Palantir—has rallied 129% in the last three months from an increased investor interest in AI.
With its technology still unproven and valuation considered rich, Palantir must demonstrate substantial progress to justify its price.
💪 Meta scraps protein folding team in pursuit of AI goals
✏️ Google now has an in-built AI grammar checker
👨🏫 MIT Professor states “AI could go either way”
👮🏼♀️ AI facial recognition leads to wrongful arrest
📚 Authors furious over AI data scraping practices
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Until next time, Martin & Arturo.
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