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April 30, 2024

Six Takeaways from Stanford University’s 2024 Report on the State AI

The 2024 Artificial Intelligence Index, released by Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI), delivers crucial insights into AI’s influence and developments. This detailed yearly report presents a data-based overview of AI’s progress across significant areas, including research, ethics, policy, public perception, and economics. A few highlights from the report are below. AI Beats Humans…

By John Bailey

April 28, 2024

We Must End the Litigation Doom Loop

A federal judge recently issued an injunction to block the approval of a powerline that would have connected 161 renewable energy projects to the electric grid, providing more clean energy to consumers in Minnesota, Iowa, and Wisconsin. This is the second time this project, known as the Cardinal-Hickory transmission line, has been blocked by an injunction in…

By James W. Coleman | Arnab Datta

April 26, 2024

Can AI Regulation Really Make Us Safe(r)?

In the late nineteenth century, the latest new-fangled invention was the motor car. In both Europe and the United States, regulations required a man waving a red flag to walk ahead of the car to warn road users and bystanders of the presence of the car. This also ensured that the car could travel no faster than…

By Bronwyn Howell

April 25, 2024

Generative AI, Soundalikes and Publicity Rights: Elvis Reenters the Building

Here’s a quick aural exercise in property rights: Think about Tom Petty . . . and now hear him (in your mind) singing the words “glide down over Mulholland.” Or hear Billie Eilish in your head singing five words: “so you’re a tough guy.” Finally, even if you can’t understand the lyrics but grew up grungy, imagine Eddie Vedder crooning “Yellow…

By Clay Calvert

April 25, 2024

The AI ecosystem is complex and dynamic: Its regulation should acknowledge that

Last Thursday, Meta announced the newest iteration of its large language model (LLM), Llama 3. The newest model will aim to dislodge OpenAI as the market leader through various improvements driven by what Meta claims to be “high quality” data training sets and new computer programming capabilities. Meta’s chief product officer, Chris Cox, predicts that future versions of…

By Bronwyn Howell

April 24, 2024

Why Saving AM Radio Is Redundant in the Age of Modern Technology

In an age where technology evolves at an unprecedented pace, it’s hard to justify clinging to outdated modes of communication, especially when superior alternatives exist. This brings us to the current debate around the AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act, a legislative effort to mandate the inclusion of AM radio in all new car models….

By Shane Tews

April 23, 2024

The Expansive and Expensive American Privacy Rights Act

In early 2020, as a California privacy law came into effect and other states toyed with similar legislation, I talked with a heavy hitter at one of the big tech companies about state privacy efforts. When I asked him what would happen if even more states passed privacy laws, he said something I will never forget: We will…

By Will Rinehart

April 23, 2024

Huawei’s 5G Resilience: Will It Last?

As laid out in my last blog, Huawei continues to demonstrate that it has maneuvered, at least partially, around US-imposed restrictions on advanced chips. Last week, it introduced a more advanced version of its 5G-enabled smartphone, the Pura 70, and expects to sell some 60 million such handsets this year. Semiconductor chips will also play a key role…

By Claude Barfield

April 22, 2024

Earth Day 2024: How Plastic Can the Enviros Get?

It is Earth Day 2024, an annual exercise in self-applause that always is too much fun because of the inanities, hypocrisies, mendacities, and sheer stupidity of the Earth Day slogans, arguments, propaganda, and exhortations. And also because of the embarrassing spectacle of long queues of corporate officials and public relations gasbags desperate to advertise their environmental bona fides so that the green alligators might eat them last. The Earth Day slogan for…

By Benjamin Zycher

April 19, 2024

In Attacking Apple, the Department of Justice Fails to Grasp the Essence of Progress

Those who look forward to Apple (yet again) redefining the technological horizon, like it did with the iPhone, may need to temper their expectations. The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has taken an ill-conceived step with an antitrust lawsuit that, if successful, threatens to transform Apple from an industry maverick into just another phone maker. The DOJ…

By Mark Jamison