Calibrated LLMs Must Hallucinate -For facts whose veracity cannot be determined from training data, hallucination is necessary for calibrated LLMs -Probability of generating a hallucination is close to fraction of facts that occur exactly once in data arxiv.org/abs/2311.14648

AIs could soon run businesses. It’s an opportunity to ensure these 'artificial persons' follow the law buff.ly/48eCki6 by John Nay @danielgervaisip via The Conversation U.S.

I’m commenting on the The New York Times vs OpenAI and Microsoft lawsuit tonight in As It Happens tonight at 6:30

Discussing the The New York Times vs OpenAI and Microsoft lawsuit this morning around 1030 AM Eastern on CNBC Vanderbilt Law

Vanderbilt Law's Daniel Gervais joins Sara Eisen & Bob Pisani to discuss the lawsuit against $MSFT & OpenAI by the $NYT.

Happy to have contributed to this article or about the The New York Times vs OpenAI lawsuit in the Washington Post washingtonpost.com/technology/202… Vanderbilt Law

AI Timelines Shorter -2,778 AI researchers surveyed -By 2028, 50% chance of AI autonomously building payment processing site from scratch, and downloading & fine-tuning LLMs -50% chance of unaided AI outperforming humans in every possible task by 2047 (13 yrs earlier than last)

Happy to have contributed to this The Academic Minute on the role of AI in the management of corporations academicminute.org/2024/01/daniel… Vanderbilt Law

Can artificial intelligence run an LLC by itself? Daniel Gervais (Daniel Gervais) joins NPR's The Academic Minute and examines the laws of the land to find out. academicminute.org/2024/01/daniel…

Join us for the US book launch of Forever, a legal sci-fi story, part one of the Coexistence Trilogy tomorrow 11 January at Vanderbilt Law in Flynn Auditorium at 3:30 PM.

It’s more dramatic in Celsius …yes, this is Nashville

The EU AI Act full text was leaked, and it reinforces several points: - General-purpose AI models will have to share summaries of training data used - These will have to be detailed enough for rights-holders to understand when their work has been trained on - Open models won't

AI-generated content is raising the value of trust economist.com/leaders/2024/0… from The Economist

(Almost a) final call for young IP scholars - our Essay Competition is still open for additional submissions until February 15th, 2024. See the full details and guidelines here: tinyurl.com/c4vv5j63

Daniel Gervais (Daniel Gervais) weighed in on image likeness and the increasing use of deepfake images with USA TODAY: usatoday.com/story/entertai…

Are you in London? If so, don’t miss the world premiere of a play based on my legal sci-fi book “Forever” at Bentham House (UCL) on Tuesday 13 February at 1315, part of a great program on privacy. See details here: ucl.ac.uk/laws/events/20….

We are very pleased to share that the website for the ATRIP 2024 Congress in Rome (30.6-3.7.2024), is now online: atriprome2024.org The website includes the call for papers, as well as the registration options. We look forward to welcoming you in Rome soon!

The Vanderbilt Intellectual Property Program is excited to announce a major event in music, copyright, and AI on April 4th at Vanderbilt LawSchool. (Free) registration required. #CLE available. Vanderbilt Law Vanderbilt IP Program Check out the details here law.vanderbilt.edu/alumni/music-l…

LLM Prediction Capabilities Match Human Accuracy -A crowd of 12 LLMs vs a crowd of 925 human forecasters on a 3-month forecasting tournament -LLM crowd is statistically equivalent to the human crowd -Replicates the "wisdom of the crowd" effect for LLMs arxiv.org/abs/2402.19379

I am grateful for Veronica Rodriguez Arguijo's review of my book Forever on the The IPKat [Book Review] Forever - The IPKat (ipkitten.blogspot.com)