Get in touch to submit a question or send us your feedback. We bring Season 2 to a close with some reflections on the long-running soap opera that is our collective relationship with AI.Each of us chooses what we consider to be a Win in the saga so far, as well as one Fail and one Prediction.In the best soap opera tradition we have heroes and villains, school bullies, an evil twin, a dream sequence, and a cat called Cyrano.
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The Commons Report: British Film and High-End TV
Get in touch to submit a question or send us your feedback. A brand new Government report has landed. Same old, same old? We think not!The Report into British Film and High-End Television has been published by UK House of Commons' Culture, Media and Sport Committee. At more then 100 pages, it's not a quick read, so we've gone in first for you.We focus in on what it says about IP and the impact of AI, picking through our highlights of the Report's conclusions and recommendations.Listen to find out what Marcus finds gobsmacking, what made Annette punch the air and why we give Mathilde a standing ovation...The report can be found here: https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5901/cmselect/cmcumeds/328/report.html
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The Paris AI Summit
Get in touch to submit a question or send us your feedback. The third international AI Summit has graced the Grand Palais in Paris. Mathilde was the recipient of a golden ticket and can therefore spill the beans on what actually happens at these global summits.What was it like to be an invited guest, milling about with tech bros and world leaders? What - if anything - do summits like these achieve?And, most importantly, how did Mathilde end up as part of President Macron's security detail?
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Is the UK Really Open for Consultation? with Tim Carter
Get in touch to submit a question or send us your feedback. Late in 2024, the UK government launched a Consultation on Copyright and Artificial Intelligence. The questions - all 47 of them - asked a range of questions, including whether UK Law should allow free access to protected content for AI training. It also made it clear that it had a preferred option. What it probably hadn't anticipated was the swell of public opinion, even as the consultation closed.In the LHV Guest Spotlight this time is Tim Carter, a solicitor turned tech consultant, who has worked with tech companies of all sizes, from Google to Flawless AI. Importantly, Tim, has worked for tech developers serving the creative industries, which gives him an unusually broad perspective. So - open to consultation or just open to Big Tech?
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Synthetic Nostalgia with Dr Jenny Kid & Dr Eva Nieto McAvoy
Get in touch to submit a question or send us your feedback. In Season 1, we delved into what happens to our digital remains once our mortal bodies are well and truly shuffled off. This time, we take a different posthumous angle with heritage researchers Dr Jenny Kidd and Dr Eva Nieto MacAvoy from the University of Cardiff. Museum professionals and curators care deeply about authenticity, truth, community and connection – much like artists. For Jenny and Eva, the ethics of weaving technology into our memory of the past is at the heart of their work. They have written about the impact of platforms like DeepNostalgia or DeepStory on how people relate to their family history and heritage. We learn that Algorithm-powered nostalgia can take leafing through your family photo album to unexpected places.
Two voice artists, Annette Rizzo and Marcus Hutton, join forces with Dr Mathilde Pavis, an expert in intellectual property law, ethics and new technologies.In conversation with artists and activists, they explore the professional, legal and ethical issues in Artificial Intelligence in the creative sectors and performance synthesis. *Music: “Songs for Ancestors” by Juno Reactor. With kind permission from Juno Reactor/Ben Watkins. www.junoreactor.com*Discussions over the course of these podcasts are an exploration of the law and ethics around AI and should not be taken as legal advice.
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