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Copyright protection does not extend to general ideas or artistic styles. That means that the visual style of Studio Ghibli isn’t protected, and neither is the tone or mood of Wes Anderson, or the musical style of Grandmaster Flash.
Responsible for creating AI visual and multimodal content. This entails working closely with content, product, engineering and design teams to absorb knowledge, define opportunities, and develop concepts to bring ideas to life.
“I think everyone gets a little bit caught up in the week-to-week, day-to-day, or the definitions of these abstract ideas. Just focus on the capabilities. You know, we should really be thinking about these things as Artificial Capable Intelligence. What can it do in practice, and what is the value
When fully human-level artificial intelligence is eventually built, most of us would prefer that it behave consistently with human values rather than in opposition to them. This is called “alignment,” and today we’re going to address that topic.
Two AI experts discuss chain of thought, key and value weights, and steganography, but don't worry - ChatGPT 4o is here to help.
Can we balance innovation with human rights and privacy concerns? What about AI's environmental harms and its potential for major job displacement? And might we have a legal duty to use AI if it saves our clients money?
A fantasy world, reimagined by artificial intelligence: Can 25 million Miyazaki fans be wrong?
What a rocket ride 2025 has been: CEO Luke Norris will be sharing the main stage in Las Vegas this Tuesday with Intel CEO Michelle Johnston Holthaus.
If there are no Cinderella teams, the world could see its first perfect NCAA March Madness bracket. But there's that inescapable, very human element to consider.
Semiconductors hold wider lessons that can be valuable across multiple industries.
This is the first in a series of columns about artificial intelligence and human destiny. It will cover both existential threats to our civilization as well as the tremendous opportunities that could emerge. Let’s start with the elephant in the room. It seems rather silly, doesn’t it? To
"Rapid advances in AI are beginning to reshape national security. Destabilizing AI developments could rupture the balance of power and raise the odds of great-power conflict, while widespread proliferation of capable AI hackers and virologists would lower barriers for rogue actors to cause catastrophe. "Superintelligence – AI vastly better
The rapid rise of AI agents has sparked urgent legal and policy debates distinct from broader AI regulation. At the latest Silicon Flatirons event at the University of Colorado Law School, the Artificial Intelligence, Autonomous Systems, and Law Conference on March 7, experts gathered to tackle issues related to one
"I've long believed that if you want something, you should create it for other people, and then you'll have it, too."
Closely connected to the attention Fort Collins is receiving for its upcoming, four-day Founded in FoCo conference - and which for the first time, features an AI track - the AI meetup scene in the city is also bubbling over. Three of the original founders of the NoCo AI Group
AI enthusiasts in Fort Collins want you to know one thing: The AI scene in Colorado is not restricted to Boulder and Denver. And there would appear to be enough AI-related discussions going on in FoCo in the days, weeks, and months ahead to lead to a noticeable increase in
On February 20, the Colorado Technology Association hosted the 2025 Tech Summit + APEX Awards at the Grand Hyatt in Denver. In a demonstration of AI's current dominance of the tech industry, Ibotta founder and CEO Bryan Leach accepted the award for Company of the Year, while Jon Nordmark,
A world-famous (and not-to-be-named-here) German film director appeared with AI developer and entrepreneur Daniel Ritchie at the Rocky Mountain AI Interest Group's Legal AI meeting on February 25th in Boulder. Ritchie led a discussion about open-source AI models, focusing on just how frequently what’s called “open source”
Who is ultimately responsible for ensuring the ethical use of AI? This is a question graduate students at the University of Colorado Boulder were asked to grapple with during the school’s annual Interdisciplinary Ethics Tech Competition earlier this month. All three of us on my team – two law students,
Pilot data showed 82% of clinicians felt less time pressure per visit, and patients reported improved doctor-patient communication, boosting patient satisfaction scores by 15 points.
The unfortunate reality is that many people cannot afford to hire a lawyer. Entrepreneurs, freelancers, and small business owners often find themselves navigating legal issues on a tight budget.
Think of DeepSeek as a catalyst for expansion rather than a threat to existing players, which is why such a massive hit to NVIDIA's stock may not have been justified.
The founder of Technical Integrity has long been building talented teams by pairing deep technical acumen with a genuine focus on cultural alignment.
GenAI’s complexities and opaque inner workings mean that its outputs cannot be easily explained, even by experts. This translates to low customer confidence, and it’s a factor in low adoption. Explainable AI can help.
The mind behind "AI by Hand" says the focus of this technical presentation on Tuesday is not the tool’s capabilities, but what’s behind it.
Boulder SEO Marketing wants you to ride the AI wave instead of getting swamped by it. BSM is offering a free, 60-minute webinar on Jan. 30th focused on AI and SEO, featuring "Micro-SEO" and introducing the AI-driven BSM Copilot.
The governance team plays a key role in establishing the AI risk program - creating policies and procedures, establishing reporting, ensuring the program is compliant with regulatory expectations, and that it meets industry standards.
“We're creating the connective tissue between AI hardware and applications – think ‘the platform that lets enterprises use AI without moving their sensitive data around.’”
Not many details have been released, but the musician suggests that each AI-generated song would be played only once, that the radio station would be available only for certain periods of time – and only in certain locations.
What might be the world’s first epic poem featuring an AI hero is truly a tale for our times - and a hint of what may lie ahead.
Generative AI helps to level the playing field, and those who know how to use it will succeed in the new world that’s rapidly unfolding.
Only if it’s the PETKIT Purobot Ultra, self-packing, AI-powered camera, 5G Wi-Fi, self-cleaning, hands-free, auto-scooping, cat litter box, of course.
Guide customers through the moments that matter most in their cloud journey, and help customers transform and evolve their business.
For my company's clients, 2023 was the Year of Understanding and 2024 was the Year of Experimentation. That means 2025 will be the Year of Implementation.
Colorado-based Aimee Says, Wildlife Protection Solutions, and Ojje demonstrate some of the good that can be achieved through the many uses of artificial intelligence.
St. Peter's Chapel deems the pilot program a “great success,” although some observers are less than enthused about the experiment.
Ethan Mollick asks if we’re sufficiently focused on what’s right in front of us. He says that not only can we feast for many years on what we have today, but we really need to address critical issues.
I think we can all agree on this: 502 pages is a lot. But there are many pearls of wisdom, invaluable insights and credible survey results strewn throughout those pages, so the report is truly worth a deep dive. Here's a high-level overview.
Yes, AI saves me time, but my main reason for using it is to be a better lawyer. AI helps me double-check my work. Not just grammar and spelling errors, but more serious concerns, such as dates that don’t align, contractual sections that contradict one another, or provisions that need refinement.
“May you live in interesting times.”
One aspect of the systemic AI bias that’s so significant in the world of education is representation. All students want to show up in teaching materials, from textbooks to coloring pages, to worksheets and lecture slides.
Are Large Language Models (LLMs) soon to be yesterday’s news? Liquid AI offers up what it says are its more powerful, more energy-efficient, and more transparent Liquid Foundation Models (LFMs).
Liza Adams is not just a doer; she is a dynamo. In fact, when asked if she ever sleeps, she just laughed and replied that she gets asked that a lot. Liza is our latest Colorado AI VIP because – just like the very best athletes – she can see the whole
AI for Good: October is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month, and Aimee Says is a critical response to the global crisis
If ChatGPT’s bedside manner is already better than that of an empathetic doctor, what’s around the corner?
Develop guidance and tools for AI/ML video annotation and develop best practices for sharing and integrating information extracted from cloud-based AI/ML ocean video tools and algorithms.
Newsom's veto of 'aggressive' approach to AI regulation sends CA legislators back to the drawing board.
Lawyer's misuse of AI leads to probationary status, but also to a new mission: using AI to be more efficient and help underserved clients.
Matt Beane's The Skill Code: How to Save Human Ability in an Age of Intelligent Machines is an urgent discussion about the loss of expertise in many fields due to the changing relationship of mentors and apprentices – or experts and novices. The author begins with a broad overview
Not just the 'what,' but the 'how' and the 'why' become important. "How did you arrive at this answer?"
Apple Intelligence has landed...sort of. Yesterday was the big reveal (AKA the Apple Event), and the anticipation this time around was all about the potential wow-factor of the AI features packed into the new iPhone and the forthcoming iOS 18.1. Would they impress or disappoint? Two weeks ago,
After a long absence, SearchCon is back. And it's no longer taking place up in Breckenridge, but in the much more accessible Broomfield, located midway between Denver and Boulder. What's SearchCon, you ask? It's billed as an "advanced SEO and digital marketing conference,
Denver Startup Week is less than two weeks away, and readers of Colorado AI News will be happy to know that this year's lineup features an extra scoop of AI-related content. For the most part, DSW takes place in and around the 16th Street Mall, but some events
Do any organized retraining efforts really work? Or is it up to each of us? Taking a cue from post-strike workers in Hollywood: “How can I work with AI?”
Virginia politician diagnosed with “Parkinson’s disease on steroids” Rep. Jennifer Wexton (D-VA) is a popular U.S. Congresswoman serving her third term in office. However, she suffers from progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), a rare, late-onset neurodegenerative disease, which she has described as “Parkinson’s disease on steroids.” Wexton was
The spring and summer have been filled with arduous labor for Apple workers, and the fruits of their toil shall soon be revealed. Much rejoicing of the owners of iPhones shall be heard throughout the towns and villages, for even the least among them shall now find the manifold blessings
Do you know Paul Roetzer? If you’re into AI, you should. Roetzer is the founder and CEO of the Marketing AI Institute, co-host of the very popular podcast “The AI Show,” author of Marketing Artificial Intelligence, and creator of the Marketing AI Conference, commonly referred to as MAICON. And
Generative AI has had a stunning impact on many industries and sectors, but few have felt the shockwave more than education. It seems like within the first 12 hours of ChatGPT’s launch, students were already testing its ability to produce essays, articles, discussion posts, and all of the other
Where will artificial intelligence be found in the 2026 Games? Everywhere.
After a month off for summer vacation, RMAIIG is back. The Rocky Mountain AI Interest Group will kick off its fall season with a large-group meeting in Boulder on Monday, August 12 at 6:00 pm. The theme is “Controlling and Constraining LLM’s,” and the evening will feature three
Does an AI wearable that listens to everything you say sound like a good thing – or kind of creepy? What if I told you that this wearable would also weigh in on the conversation when you requested its input? And what if it occasionally offered its unsolicited opinion of how
In exciting news for Coloradans – and for millions of others across the country – AI is in the early stages of being used to help with wildfire detection and mitigation. Why is AI a good thing here? As talented as we humans are, we have more than a few limitations. We’
Earlier this month, Elevate Quantum, a Colorado-based consortium of tech companies and universities, successfully won a $41 million grant from the federal government to boost the state’s already strong presence in the quickly expanding field of quantum computing. Wait, what is quantum? McKinsey describes quantum computing as “a new
Colorado AI News: Welcome, Bill, and congrats on being our first Colorado AI VIP! Bill Quinn: Thanks, Phil. It’s an honor. CoAi: Well deserved! In fact, you’re the perfect person for our inaugural VIP. Your experience innovating at tech startups back in the day gives you valuable perspective
There must be something in the water in Boulder. How could there not be, when the city of just 105,000 keeps pumping out successful entrepreneurs? In fact, as long as a decade ago, Inc. Magazine named Boulder “America’s Startup Capital,” calling it the most entrepreneurial city in the
If you work in education, you’ve probably spent much of the last 18 months or so grappling with AI and its ramifications in the classroom. While some instructors have attempted to ban the use of generative AI tools, many are seeking productive ways to bring AI into the mix
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