popular opinion : We ’ve officially entered 2024 which means it ’s clip for us to name our first winner and loser of the New Year .
WithCESon the horizon , we expect to take heed plenty of exciting technical school announcements over the next calendar week , but what about the last seven day ? Keep read to strike our success and loser from the first week of January .
Winner: Samsung
This week has been pack full ofGalaxy S24rumours asSamsung formally announced a engagement for its next flagship smartphone launching .
Samsung Australia tweeted a GIFteasing the next Galaxy Unpacked event on December 28 . The GIF included the phrase “ Galaxy AI is fare ” alongside the date January 18 2024 with the event scheduled to kick off burnished and early at 5 am AEDT ( that ’s a slightly more sane 6 pm GMT for those of us here in the UK ) .
This was n’t the first we ’d heard of Galaxy AI however . Samsung announce Galaxy AI back in November , calling it “ universal intelligence on your speech sound ” . One feature the company highlighted was AI Live Translate Call , a cock that will offer audio recording and text language translations in real - time in the phone ’s native headphone app .
We ’ve also heard whispering of what might be in computer storage for the new S series update . These include rumours of aflatter S24 and S24 Plus with straight edges,4K/120fps TV on the S24 Ultra , in addition to abig focus on AI .
We ’ll have to wait until January 18 to hear all the prescribed contingent .
Loser: Microsoft and OpenAI
Microsoft and OpenAI are our loser this week after it was reported that the two companies are currentlyfacing a cause from the New York Times .
The New York Times is suing the two companies for their “ unlawful function of The Times ’s work to produce artificial intelligence products that compete with it ” when developing ChatGPT .
According to the case , ChatGPT , which was trained on large amounts of online data , was fed articles publish by the New York Times without permission from the news outlet , or whirl of compensation .
ChatGPT can now beget extract from New York Times article commonly bewilder behind a paywall in response to questions , while Microsoft ’s Bing web browser has been spotted producing resultant from the New York Times without linking to the original article .
This data being readily usable on ChatGPT and Bing has reportedly cost the New York Times money in subscription fees and advertizement views , causing the news outlet to seek billion of dollars worth of damages .
We ’ll have to waitress and see how this causa become but if the New York Times is successful , it could sure set a young case law for how large terminology models are trained going forward .
