Why DeepSeek scares off (Western) AI giants

So far, the common perception has been that to play the AI game requires such huge investments and infrastructure that any attempt in this direction is discouraged. China has shown that this is not the case. And now it can also advance to the conquer  ‘natural intelligences’  by Andrea Monti – Initially published in Italian by La Repubblica – Italian Tech

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Webscraping and AI Datasets: if the purpose is in the public interest there is no copyright infringement

“The creation of a dataset … which can form the basis for the training of artificial intelligence systems, can certainly be considered scientific research … Although the creation of the dataset as such may not be immediately associated with an increase in knowledge, it constitutes an essential step for the goal of using it to subsequently acquire the knowledge in question ’ – by Andrea Monti – originally published in Strategikon – Italian Tech-La Repubblica
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Imane Khelif should be a scandal, but for an entirely different reason

The case of Imane Khelif, the Algerian boxer who is the subject of heated controversy at the Paris 2024 Olympics because as a ‘trans’ woman she cannot fight a woman should, yes, make a scandal, but not for the reasons that many are arguing by Andrea Monti – Initially published in Italian by Italian Tech – La Repubblica. Continue reading “Imane Khelif should be a scandal, but for an entirely different reason”