What do self-driving cars, voice-controlled virtual assistants and ‘robo-journalists’, which can automatically write and publish news articles, have in common? The development in these technology sectors is often driven by companies in the USA. Prominent examples would be Tesla, Amazon (with its Alexa assistant) and Automated Insights, a North Carolina-based provider of a text generator that has been used by, among others, the Associated Press since 2014 to produce simple news articles. In all of these cases, however, another common factor is artificial intelligence (AI). More precisely, each of those examples employs self-learning algorithms based on artificial neural networks …
Jan Bernd Nordemann and Jonathan Pukas, Copyright exceptions for AI training data – will there be an international level playing field?, Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice, volume 17, issue 12, December 2022, pages 973-974.
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