[ML News] GitHub Copilot - Copyright, GPL, Patents & more | Brickit LEGO app | Distill goes on break

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GitHub and OpenAI release Copilot, an AI-powered code autocomplete system that can generate entire functions, classes, and modules from mere definitions and docstrings. Copilot was trained on all public GitHub repositories, and this has a lot of people upset about questions on copyright, code licenses, social obligations, and how much you can profit from other people's work. I give my opinions on the issue in relation to copyright law, the GPL license, and terms of service. Further, we discuss the Brickit app to organize your LEGOs, Distill going on a break, and much more.

OUTLINE: 0:00 - Intro 0:20 - GitHub Copilot 6:55 - My opinion on Copilot & Copyright 17:25 - Facebook AI image similarity challenge 18:00 - Brickit app scans your LEGOs and suggests builds 18:40 - Distill journal goes on break 19:50 - Amazon uses algorithms to hire & fire Flex drivers 23:20 - Helpful Libraries: TF Decision Forests, Habitat, Falken, Brax 24:20 - AI-generated papers give science a hard time

References: GitHub Copilot: AI pair programmer https://twitter.com/gdb/status/1409890354132750336 https://twitter.com/rickhanlonii/status/1410020702028193798 https://copilot.github.com/ https://docs.github.com/en/github/copilot/research-recitation https://docs.github.com/en/github/site-policy/github-terms-of-service#d-user-generated-content https://tldrlegal.com/license/gnu-general-public-license-v3-(gpl-3)#fulltext https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.en.html#CanIUseGPLToolsForNF https://www.legalzoom.com/knowledge/copyright/topic/copyright-protection-scope https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derivative_work https://twitter.com/giffmana/status/1410320795222654981 https://twitter.com/search?q=copilot&src=typed_query&f=image

Facebook AI launches image similarity challenge https://www.drivendata.org/competitions/79/competition-image-similarity-1-dev/

Brickit app sorts your LEGOs https://brickit.app/?ref=producthunt&s=09 https://petapixel.com/2021/07/01/brickits-ai-camera-scans-your-lego-to-suggest-things-you-can-build/

Distill goes on break https://distill.pub/2021/distill-hiatus/

Amazon uses Algorithms to fire Flex drivers https://www.engadget.com/amazon-algorithms-fire-flex-delivery-drivers-055959081.html?guccounter=1

TensorFlow decision forests https://blog.tensorflow.org/2021/05/introducing-tensorflow-decision-forests.html

Facebook AI habitat 2.0 https://ai.facebook.com/blog/habitat-20-training-home-assistant-robots-with-faster-simulation-and-new-benchmarks/

Google Falken trains game-playing agents https://ai.googleblog.com/2021/06/quickly-training-game-playing-agents.html https://github.com/google-research/falken

Google Brax: differentiable physics simulator https://github.com/google/brax https://arxiv.org/pdf/2106.13281.pdf

Fake science is gettin ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrLrBL1U8z0