One-Minute Daily AI News 9/13/2023

1. Project Gutenberg and Microsoft have created thousands of free audiobooks that use neural text-to-speech technology to generate the voices.[1]
2. A group of U.S. authors, including Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Chabon, has sued OpenAI in federal court in San Francisco, accusing the Microsoft-backed program of misusing their writing to train its popular artificial intelligence-powered chatbot ChatGPT.[2]
3. Numenta launches brain-based NuPIC to make AI processing up to 100 times more efficient.[3]
4. Adept AI Labs released Persimmon-8B. Persimmon-8B is an open-source, fully permissively licensed model in the 8B class. This model holds immense potential for a wide array of applications, aiming to assist users in various computer-related tasks.[4]

Sources:

[1] https://www.zdnet.com/article/heres-how-to-access-thousands-of-free-audiobooks-thanks-to-microsoft-ai-and-project-gutenberg/

[2] https://www.reuters.com/technology/more-writers-sue-openai-copyright-infringement-over-ai-training-2023-09-11/

[3] https://venturebeat.com/ai/numenta-launches-brain-based-nupic-to-make-ai-processing-up-to-100-times-more-efficient/

[4] https://www.marktechpost.com/2023/09/09/adept-ai-labs-open-sources-persimmon-8b-a-powerful-fully-permissively-licensed-language-model-with/