One-Minute Daily AI News 12/23/2023

1. Information technology (IT) major Infosys announced on Saturday, December 23 that the company has terminated its $1.5 billion agreement with an undisclosed global company, focused on artificial intelligence (AI) solutions.[1]
2. AI to help churches and castles fight wave of graffiti and vandalism.[2]
3. Microsoft has big plans for generative AI in gaming, and its recent Xbox partnership with Inworld AI is a key example. Inworld focuses on NPCs — non-playable characters — in video games, figures who populate generated worlds but have to date largely run on limited scripts.[3]
4. The AI Foundation Model Transparency Act, filed by two lawmakers in the US, aims to make it clear if artificial intelligence (AI) models use copyright data for training.[4]

Sources:

[1] https://www.livemint.com/companies/news/infosys-terminates-1-5-billion-ai-deal-with-global-client-11703331686599.html

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/dec/23/ai-to-help-churches-and-castles-fight-wave-of-graffiti-and-vandalism

[3] https://www.cnbc.com/2023/12/23/the-first-minds-controlled-by-gen-ai-will-live-inside-video-games.html

[4] https://indicanews.com/ai-companies-may-need-to-disclose-copyrighted-training-data/