The Potential of AI as an Assistant and its Increasing Use

Our guest this week on the GeekWire Podcast is computer scientist and entrepreneur Oren Etzioni, assessing the past year in AI, and looking ahead to what's next. Etzioni, an AI leader for many decades, is professor emeritus at the University of Washington, Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence board member, AI2 Incubator technical director, and Madrona Venture Group venture partner.

In the first segment of the show, GeekWire's John Cook and Todd Bishop discuss the big AI news of the week: The New York Times Co.'s landmark lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI over their use of the newspaper's articles in AI models.

• The New York Times sues OpenAI and Microsoft for training AI chatbots on its copyrighted work
• NYT v. GPT: Microsoft finds itself on the other side of an industry-defining copyright dispute
• Francesco Marconi in the WSJ: AI and Journalism Need Each Other

Audio editing by Curt Milton. 

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