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It's finally Friday, friends. I'm Diamond Naga Siu, and <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/dealing-with-feeling-lonely-at-work-and-helping-your-team-2022-5">working remotely</a> makes the week feel longer to me.Like my <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/office-personality-quiz-work-remote-employees-2023-3">fully-remote</a> colleague <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/author/rebecca-knight">Rebecca Knight</a>, I miss <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/pi-ai-remote-work-loneliness-coworker-productivity-2023-5">sharing random thoughts with my colleagues</a>. But she actually did something about it.For one week, Rebecca tested out a personal AI called Pi that encourages users to talk about whatever is on their minds. She messaged Pi as if it were her colleague to see whether it would make her less lonely working from home. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/pi-ai-remote-work-loneliness-coworker-productivity-2023-5">Check out how her experiment went here.</a>Before I go message a few people, let's dive into today's tech.If this was forwarded to you, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/subscription/newsletter/10-things-in-tech">sign up here</a>. Download Insider's app <a href="https://link.insider.com/click/27645591.160803/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaW5zaWRlci5jb20vYXBwP25yX2VtYWlsX3JlZmVyZXI9MSZ1dG1fc291cmNlPVNhaWx0aHJ1JnV0bV9tZWRpdW09ZW1haWwmdXRtX2NvbnRlbnQ9T3BlbmluZ19iZWxs/62667762063d6b9bef0cffb3Bf9c9aa56" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here.</a><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/these-startups-are-selling-an-unusual-product-their-own-losses-2023-5"></a>1. Earn cash for being unprofitable. Most startups take years before they earn a profit. But a new financing strategy is emerging for fledgling companies. Major firms like Bank of America are buying up startup losses to pay less on their taxes.<ul><li>New Jersey created this program as part of a push to spur innovation in the state. And in 2022 alone, it distributed $75 million to unprofitable New Jersey tech companies.</li><li>It's a win-win situation. Established companies get a tax break. And one of the biggest challenges for startup founders, cash burn, becomes a valuable commodity.</li><li>My colleague <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/author/https-www-linkedin-com-in-darius-rafieyan-24511751">Darius Rafieyan</a> breaks down the novel setup that's helping unprofitable startups raise money.</li></ul><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/these-startups-are-selling-an-unusual-product-their-own-losses-2023-5">The full story.</a>In other news:<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/alcohol-free-san-francisco-house-hf0-ai-2023-6"></a><div type="image" title="Stock photo of a no-alcohol sign" height="3264" width="4352" msid="100704655" hostid="261" sizebytes="228922"></div>2. Welcome home: A Hype House for generative AI developers. Get ready to work-hard, play-hard in this alcohol-free mansion located in the middle of San Francisco. It's the latest hotspot for aspiring generative-AI developers. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/alcohol-free-san-francisco-house-hf0-ai-2023-6">Enter here for details on the developer digs.</a>3. Generative AI has a Digital Blackface problem. Companies like Levi's are trying to use AI to fill their lack of diversity in advertising. But the practice has faced sharp criticism, and some advertisers have created internal guidelines to make sure AI-generated models don't undercut BIPOC talent. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/generative-ai-stokes-digital-blackface-accusations-advertisers-adjust-2023-6">Read the full story here.</a>4. The CEOs of Salesforce and OpenAI are neighbors. Marc Benioff said that he speaks regularly with Sam Altman and they have discussed AI over dinner. Altman also gave Benioff some demos of "advanced technologies." <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/marc-benioff-sam-altman-neighbors-ai-salesforce-openai-slack-chatgpt-2023-6">More here.</a>5. Why Apple is about to jump into the metaverse. Plus, Mark Zuckerberg isn't giving up on it either. My colleague <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/author/alistair-barr">Alistair Barr</a> (who edits this newsletter!) examines why <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/metaverse-dead-obituary-facebook-mark-zuckerberg-tech-fad-ai-chatgpt-2023-5">the tech isn't dead yet</a> and breaks down its practical uses. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerberg-metaverse-wont-give-up-apple-2023-5">Look into the metaverse's next chapter here.</a>6. GirlfriendGPT makes a virtual version of your girlfriend. A tech bro created an AI version of his girlfriend so that "she" can send him voice notes and selfies on demand. Every day, he communicates with both (and compares their responses). <a href="https://www.insider.com/tech-bro-creates-ai-version-of-his-girlfriend-sends-selfies-2023-6?_gl=1*1p4c2nn*_ga*MTc2OTI5NDc0Ni4xNjgyMjg5NjU2*_ga_E21CV80ZCZ*MTY4NTY0ODU0Mi4xNDguMS4xNjg1NjQ4NTg4LjE0LjAuMA..">Check it out here.</a>7. Wealthy people are installing $65,000 cold-plunge pools. Diving into these sub-59-degree Fahrenheit pools is a hot anti-aging trend, especially among affluent techies. Now, they want to do it at home. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/wealthy-installing-expensive-cold-plunge-pools-stall-aging-help-focus-2023-6">Get the details here.</a>8. An electric Toyota drove 1,200 miles without needing a charge. That's around five times more than an average EV can travel on a full charge. And it's all thanks to new electric roads that charge EVs as they drive. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/toyota-ev-drives-1200-miles-range-wireless-charging-roads-electreon-2023-6">Hop in for the full story here.</a>Odds and ends:<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ryanair-passenger-caught-smoking-in-toilet-hauled-off-flight-police-2023-6"></a><div type="image" title="Ryanair." height="1665" width="2220" msid="100704657" hostid="261" sizebytes="297892"></div>9. A video shows police removing a Ryanair passenger after he was caught smoking in the plane's toilet. After flight attendants smelled smoke, he was "named and shamed" to the whole plane. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ryanair-passenger-caught-smoking-in-toilet-hauled-off-flight-police-2023-6">Find out more.</a>10. Putin is terrified of being assassinated. The Russian president has long been concerned about his safety (and uses elaborate layers of security). But after a recent drone attack near his home, Putin reportedly refuses to travel abroad anymore. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/putin-terrified-assassinated-refusing-to-travel-drone-strike-reports-russia-2023-6">More here.</a>The latest people moves in tech:<ul><li>Fractal Software, a New York venture studio, is laying off staff. Plus, it's going to stop creating startups and focus on its existing ones instead. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/fractal-layoffs-venture-studio-stop-create-startups-2023-5">Get the scoop here.</a></li><li>VMware employees are bracing for layoffs ahead of Broadcom's pending $61 billion acquisition of the company. Employees predict lost customers and spinouts of business units. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/broadcom-vmware-deal-employees-concerned-carbon-black-euc-2023-5">Here's what former and current employees told Insider.</a></li></ul>Curated by Diamond Naga Siu in San Diego. (Feedback or tips? Email <a href="mailto:dsiu@insider.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dsiu@insider.com</a> or tweet <a href="http://www.twitter.com/diamondnagasiu" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@diamondnagasiu</a>) Edited by Alistair Barr (tweet <a href="https://twitter.com/alistairmbarr" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@alistairmbarr</a>) in San Francisco and Nathan Rennolds (<a href="https://twitter.com/ncrennolds?lang=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@ncrennolds</a>) in London.

10 Things in Tech: Hype House for generative AI developers, why Apple is jumping into the metaverse, and a long-range, electric Toyota

<ul class="summary-list"><li dir="ltr">Campaigners have challenged British and European patent authorities over their rejection of the world's first "AI inventor". </li><li dir="ltr">The nine-strong squad of international legal experts is battling for designs conceived by artificial intelligence to be recognised in law, and has filed patents on its behalf around the world. </li><li dir="ltr">UK officials withdrew the applications - but admitted it was "right [that changes to the law] be debated more widely". </li><li dir="ltr">The landmark case has highlighted growing anxieties among lawmakers about the role of machines in the creative process internationally. </li><li dir="ltr"><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/prime?module=article&amp;area=summary">Click here for more BI Prime stories.</a></li></ul>The decision by UK and European authorities to reject the world's first "AI inventor" is being challenged in court.On Friday, Business Insider revealed the world's first artificially intelligent "inventor" <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/first-robot-inventor-rejected-british-and-european-authorities?r=US&amp;IR=T">had been rejected by British and European patent authorities</a>, marking an historic moment in the debate around creative machines.Now the Artificial Inventor Project has filed legal challenges with the UK's High Court and the European Patent Agency's boards of appeal.In July last year, the international squad of legal experts challenged bodies in the UK, EU and US to recognise the "inventorship" of an AI called Dabus, arguing that current regimes were outdated and failing to protect machines' creative output. The team has since filed further applications in Germany, Israel, Taiwan and China.Ryan Abbott, head of the project and a professor of law at the University of Surrey, told Business Insider he was "not surprised" by either decision."We anticipated this project would require judicial involvement," he said. "The patentability of AI-generated inventions is a novel issue of law in every jurisdiction, and whether patent offices allow protection for such inventions is a matter of significant importance to innovation."Professor Abbott and his team are fighting for patents on two inventions by Dabus.The first: a fractal beverage container, capable of changing its shape, making it easier for prosthetic or robot hands to grip. The second: a flickering lamp or "neural flame", as the team dubbed it, which mimics brain activity in a way that could draw more attention from the human eye in an emergency situation.In a written response seen by Business Insider, the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/first-robot-inventor-rejected-british-and-european-authorities?r=US&amp;IR=T">UK's Intellectual Property Office rejected Dabus</a> as an inventor because it was "not a person" and therefore ineligible.It added: "Inventions created by AI machines are likely to become more prevalent in the future and there is a legitimate question as to how or whether the patent system should handle such inventions...The present system does not cater for such inventions and it was never anticipated that it would. "But times have changed and technology has moved on. It is right that this is debated more widely and that any changes to the law be considered in the context of such a debate, and not shoehorned arbitrarily into existing legislation." The European Patent Office also rejected Dabus' work, saying it "[did] not meet the requirement... that an inventor designated in the application has to be a human being, not a machine". Simon Davies, chair of Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys' committee on computer and technologies, said it was "not a surprise" the UK IPO refused to recognise Dabus under existing legislation. He added: "It is possible the courts could construe an 'inventor' to include an AI system, but this would be a departure from the original understanding of the legislation. It would require a lot of goodwill and elasticity from the courts." The UK IPO and EPO were approached for further comment.

Challenge to recognise world's first AI inventor heads for High Court battle

GettyA highly-reflective silver-coloured mannequin in the window of the fashion brand Dior in New Bond Street, London<ul class="summary-list"><li>The world's first "AI inventor" has been denied recognition by patent authorities in the UK and Europe. </li><li>A six-strong squad of international legal experts is battling for designs conceived by artificial intelligence to be recognised in law, and has filed patent applications on its behalf around the world. </li><li>The UK Intellectual Property Office said it was "right [that changes to the law around AI-designed patents] be debated more widely". </li><li>The landmark case has highlighted growing anxieties among lawmakers about the role of machines in the creative process internationally.</li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/prime?module=article&amp;area=summary">Click here for more BI Prime stories.</a></li></ul>The world's first artificially intelligent "inventor" has been rejected by British and European patent authorities, marking an historic moment in an ongoing debate around the role of creative machines. In July last year, an international squad of legal experts challenged patent authorities around the world to recognise the "inventorship" of artificial intelligence, arguing that the current regimes were outdated and do not protect machine's creative output. The nine-strong group, led by University of Surrey professor Ryan Abbott, made headlines after submitting patents designed by an artificially intelligent machine with the US, UK and European authorities. They have since filed more applications in Germany, Israel, Taiwan and China. The team is battling for recognition of a particular AI inventor called Dabus. Dabus, created by Missouri-based AI expert Dr. Stephen Thaler, came up with two designs after being fed a wealth of information, including abstract concepts related to design, practicality, color and emotion. The first was a fractal beverage container, capable of changing its shape, making it easier for prosthetic or robot hands to grip. The second was a flickering lamp or "neural flame", as the team dubbed it, which mimics brain activity in a way that could draw more attention from the human eye in an emergency situation. In a written response to the applications, the UK's Intellectual Property Office said it would not recognise Dabus as an inventor because the machine was "not a person" - and therefore ineligible.It added: "Inventions created by AI machines are likely to become more prevalent in the future and there is a legitimate question as to how or whether the patent system should handle such inventions...The present system does not cater for such inventions and it was never anticipated that it would. "But times have changed and technology has moved on. It is right that this is debated more widely and that any changes to the law be considered in the context of such a debate, and not shoehorned arbitrarily into existing legislation." The European Patent Office also rejected Dabus' work, saying it "[did] not meet the requirement... that an inventor designated in the application has to be a human being, not a machine". Business Insider approached Ryan Abbott, head of the Artificial Inventor Project, for comment. The UK IPO and EPO declined to comment further. <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/why-airplane-takeoff-landing-are-dangerous-flight-2019-12">Why airplane takeoffs and landings are so dangerous</a></h3>

The world's first AI inventor has been rejected by British and European patent authorities

<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">Courtesy of Amy WebbNYU Professor Amy Webb, author of "The Big Nine: How The Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity"</div></div></div><ul><li>Amy Webb is a professor of strategic foresight at NYU's Stern School of Business. </li><li>In this excerpt from her new book "<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Big-Nine-Thinking-Machines-Humanity-ebook/dp/B07H7G7CMN/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1550880103&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=the+big+nine">The Big Nine: How The Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity</a>," Webb explains why it's so important that artificial intelligence is built to keep human values. </li><li>Without more transparency about how AI "thinks," she argues, we run the risk that algorithms will start making decisions that don't necessarily have humanity's interests at heart. </li></ul>In the absence of codified humanistic values within the big tech giants, personal experiences and ideals are driving decision-making. This is particularly dangerous when it comes to AI, because students, professors, researchers, employees, and managers are making millions of decisions every day, from seemingly insignificant (what database to use) to profound (who gets killed if an autonomous vehicle needs to crash).Artificial intelligence might be inspired by our human brains, but humans and AI make decisions and choices differently. Princeton professor Daniel Kahneman and Hebrew University of Jerusalem professor Amos Tversky spent years studying the human mind and how we make decisions, ultimately discovering that we have two systems of thinking: one that uses logic to analyze problems, and one that is automatic, fast, and nearly imperceptible to us. Kahneman describes this dual system in his award-winning book Thinking, Fast and Slow. Difficult problems require your attention and, as a result, a lot of mental energy. That's why most people can't solve long arithmetic problems while walking, because even the act of walking requires that energy-hungry part of the brain. It's the other system that's in control most of the time. Our fast, intuitive mind makes thousands of decisions autonomously all day long, and while it's more energy efficient, it's riddled with cognitive biases that affect our emotions, beliefs, and opinions.We make mistakes because of the fast side of our brain. We overeat, or drink to excess, or have unprotected sex. It's that side of the brain that enables stereotyping. Without consciously realizing it, we pass judgment on other people based on remarkably little data. Or those people are invisible to us. The fast side makes us susceptible to what I call the paradox of the present: when we automatically assume our present circumstances will not or cannot ever change, even when faced with signals pointing to something new or different. We may think that we are in complete control of our decision-making, but a part of us is continually on autopilot.Mathematicians say that it's impossible to make a "perfect decision" because of systems of complexity and because the future is always in flux, right down to a molecular level. It would be impossible to predict every single possible outcome, and with an unknowable number of variables, there is no way to build a model that could weigh all possible answers. Decades ago, when the frontiers of AI involved beating a human player at checkers, the decision variables were straightforward. Today, asking an AI to weigh in on a medical diagnosis or to predict the next financial market crash involves data and decisions that are orders of magnitude more complex. So instead, our systems are built for optimization. Implicit in optimizing is unpredictability-to make choices that deviate from our own human thinking.When DeepMind's AlphaGo Zero abandoned human strategy and invented its own last year, it wasn't deciding between preexisting alternatives; it was making a deliberate choice to try something completely different. It's the latter thinking pattern that is a goal for AI researchers, because that's what theoretically leads to great breakthroughs. So rather than training AI to make absolutely perfect decisions every time, instead they're being trained to optimize for particular outcomes. But who-and what-are we optimizing for? To that end, how does the optimization process work in real time? That's actually not an easy question to answer. Machine- and deep-learning technologies are more cryptic than older hand-coded systems, and that's because these systems bring together thousands of simulated neurons, which are arranged into hundreds of complicated, connected layers. After the initial input is sent to neurons in the first layer, a calculation is performed and a new signal is generated. That signal gets passed on to the next layer of neurons and the process continues until a goal is reached. All of these interconnected layers allow AI systems to recognize and understand data in myriad layers of abstraction. For example, an image recognition system might detect in the first layer that an image has particular colors and shapes, while in higher layers it can discern texture and shine. The topmost layer would determine that the food in a photograph is cilantro and not parsley.The future of AI - and by extension, the future of humanity - is controlled by just nine companies, who are developing the frameworks/ chipsets/ networks, funding the majority of research, earning the lion's share of patents, and in the process mining our data in ways that aren't transparent or observable to us. Six are in the US, and I call them the G-MAFIA: Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook, IBM and Apple. Three are in China, and they are the BAT: Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent. Here's an example of how optimizing becomes a problem when the Big Nine use our data to build real-world applications for commercial and government interests. Researchers at New York's Ichan School of Medicine ran a deep-learning experiment to see if it could train a system to predict cancer. The school, based within Mount Sinai Hospital, had obtained access to the data for 700,000 patients, and the data set included hundreds of different variables. Called Deep Patient, the system used advanced techniques to spot new patterns in data that didn't entirely make sense to the researchers but turned out to be very good at finding patients in the earliest stages of many diseases, including liver cancer. Somewhat mysteriously, it could also predict the warning signs of psychiatric disorders like schizophrenia. But even the researchers who built the system didn't know how it was making decisions. The researchers built a powerful AI-one that had tangible commercial and public health benefits-and to this day they can't see the rationale for how it was making its decisions. Deep Patient made clever predictions, but without any explanation, how comfortable would a medical team be in taking next steps, which could include stopping or changing medications, administering radiation or chemotherapy, or going in for surgery?That inability to observe how AI is optimizing and making its decisions is what's known as the "black box problem." Right now, AI systems built by the Big Nine might offer open-source code, but they all function like proprietary black boxes. While they can describe the process, allowing others to observe it in real time is opaque. With all those simulated neurons and layers, exactly what happened and in which order can't be easily reverse-engineered. One team of Google researchers did try to develop a new technique to make AI more transparent. In essence, the researchers ran a deep-learning image recognition algorithm in reverse to observe how the system recognized certain things such as trees, snails, and pigs. The project, called DeepDream, used a network created by MIT's Computer Science and AI Lab and ran Google's deep-learning algorithm in reverse. Instead of training it to recognize objects using the layer-by-layer approach-to learn that a rose is a rose, and a daffodil is a daffodil-instead it was trained to warp the images and generate objects that weren't there. Those warped images were fed through the system again and again, and each time DeepDream discovered more strange images. In essence, Google asked AI to daydream. Rather than training it to spot existing objects, instead the system was trained to do something we've all done as kids: stare up at the clouds, look for patterns in abstraction, and imagine what we see. Except that DeepDream wasn't constrained by human stress or emotion: what it saw was an acid-trippy hellscape of grotesque floating animals, colorful fractals, and buildings curved and bent into wild shapes.When the AI daydreamed, it invented entirely new things that made logical sense to the system but would have been unrecognizable to us, including hybrid animals, like a "Pig-Snail" and "Dog-Fish." AI daydreaming isn't necessarily a concern; however, it does highlight the vast differences between how humans derive meaning from real-world data and how our systems, left to their own devices, make sense of our data. The research team published its findings, which were celebrated by the AI community as a breakthrough in observable AI. Meanwhile, the images were so stunning and weird that they made the rounds throughout the internet. A few people used the DeepDream code to build tools allowing anyone to make their own trippy photos. Some enterprising graphic designers even used DeepDream to make strangely beautiful greeting cards and put them up for sale on Zazzle.com.<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">Sean Gallup/Getty ImagesThe AI-powered "DeepDream" turns any photo or image into a hallucinatory masterpiece.</div></div></div>DeepDream offered a window into how certain algorithms process information; however, it can't be applied across all AI systems. How newer AI systems work-and why they make certain decisions-is still a mystery. Many within the AI tribe will argue that there is no black box problem-but to date, these systems are still opaque. Instead, they argue that to make the systems transparent would mean disclosing proprietary algorithms and processes. This makes sense, and we should not expect a public company to make its intellectual property and trade secrets freely available to anyone-especially given the aggressive position China has taken on AI.However, in the absence of meaningful explanations, what proof do we have that bias hasn't crept in? Without knowing the answer to that question, how would anyone possibly feel comfortable trusting AI?We aren't demanding transparency for AI. We marvel at machines that seem to mimic humans but don't quite get it right. We laugh about them on late-night talk shows, as we are reminded of our ultimate superiority. Again, I ask you: What if these deviations from human thinking are the start of something new?Here's what we do know. Commercial AI applications are designed for optimization-not interrogation or transparency. DeepDream was built to address the black box problem-to help researchers understand how complicated AI systems are making their decisions. It should have served as an early warning that AI's version of perception is nothing like our own. Yet we're proceeding as though AI will always behave the way its creators intended.The AI applications built by the Big Nine are now entering the mainstream, and they're meant to be user-friendly, enabling us to work faster and more efficiently. End users-police departments, government agencies, small and medium businesses-just want a dashboard that spits out answers and a tool that automates repetitive cognitive or administrative tasks. We all just want computers that will solve our problems, and we want to do less work. We also want less culpability- if something goes wrong, we can simply blame the computer system. This is the optimization effect, where unintended outcomes are already affecting everyday people around the world. Again, this should raise a sobering question: How are humanity's billions of nuanced differences in culture, politics, religion, sexuality, and morality being optimized? In the absence of codified humanistic values, what happens when AI is optimized for someone who isn't anything like you?Excerpted from: The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity by Amy Webb. Copyright © by Amy Webb. Published by arrangement with PublicAffairs, an imprint of Hachette Book Group.Get the latest Google stock price<a href="http://markets.businessinsider.com/stock/GOOG-Quote"> here.</a> <div class="margin-top"> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/secret-room-facts-mount-rushmore-presidents-south-dakota-inaccessible-tourists-lincoln-2017-1">There's a secret room behind Mount Rushmore that's inaccessible to tourists</a></h3> <div> </div> </div>

An NYU professor explains why it's so dangerous that Silicon Valley is building AI to make decisions without human values

It's <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XY3AvVgDns" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Countdown</a> time, friends. I'm Diamond Naga Siu, and it's the penultimate (woah — a word I don't get to use often) day of this newsletter.As a bittersweet reminder, this is the last week of 10 Things in Tech. I'm moving over to our flagship newsletter Insider Today. And it'll continue keeping you updated on the top tech news of the day. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/subscription/newsletter/insider-today">Sign up for it here</a>!Also, please let me know what you want to see in Insider Today. Feel free to reach out at <a href="mailto:dsiu@insider.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dsiu@insider.com</a> with feedback, tips, food recs, jokes, or anything else.Before I <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRS_PpOrUZ4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">get in my feels</a>, let's dive into today's tech.Download Insider's app <a href="https://link.insider.com/click/27645591.160803/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaW5zaWRlci5jb20vYXBwP25yX2VtYWlsX3JlZmVyZXI9MSZ1dG1fc291cmNlPVNhaWx0aHJ1JnV0bV9tZWRpdW09ZW1haWwmdXRtX2NvbnRlbnQ9T3BlbmluZ19iZWxs/62667762063d6b9bef0cffb3Bf9c9aa56" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here.</a><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/fractal-vertical-software-startup-venture-studio-ownership-founder-equity-grant-2023-6"></a>1. Founders from startup studios say they're 'blacklisted' from investors. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/fractal-layoffs-venture-studio-stop-create-startups-2023-5#:~:text=An%20unusual%20funding%20structure,to%20produce%20an%20outsized%20outcome.">Startup studios like Fractal</a> think of startup ideas, then hire founders to execute the vision. But multiple Fractal founders say their businesses are on life support. Plus, they claim that investors seem to run when they hear the name Fractal.<ul><li>"There's a cancer on all of the businesses that are coming out of this studio," one founder told Insider. Many of them think it's because of how startup studios structure terms and conditions for investing — they take a massive chunk of ownership.</li><li>Investors also prefer when startup founders create the ideas themselves. So founders said that the selling point for startup studios is actually a double-edged sword.</li><li>My colleagues <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/author/melia-russell">Melia Russell</a> and <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/author/stephanie-palazzolo">Stephanie Palazzolo</a> spoke with 20 founders associated with Fractal and broke down the unique struggles they face.</li></ul><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/fractal-vertical-software-startup-venture-studio-ownership-founder-equity-grant-2023-6">Dive into their hurdle-filled startup journeys here</a>.In other news:<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-voice-generator-phone-scam-imposter-crime-money-cash-2023-6"></a><div type="image" title="A robot hand reaching for a red landline phone" height="1000" width="1333" msid="101367222" hostid="261" sizebytes="69464"></div>2. AI voice generators are scamming parents. The call is from an unknown number. But the voice sounds like your kid asking for money. New technology is making imposter scams easier and more believable. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-voice-generator-phone-scam-imposter-crime-money-cash-2023-6">Get all the details of this supercharged scam here.</a>3. Google's controversial Pride Month drag show. Hundreds of employees signed a petition opposing the company-sponsored drag show. They claimed it disrespected Christian workers and that it amounted to religious discrimination. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/google-drag-show-pride-offensive-to-christians-lgbtq-religious-discrimination-2023-6">More on the dispute here.</a>4. How to land deals with brands. Insider compiled dozens of media kits that influencers use to land brand deals. These examples helped influencers partner with Nike, Abercrombie, Amazon, Tinder, and other major companies. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-create-an-influencer-media-kit">Check them out here.</a>5. No bonuses, no salaries, no negotiations. OpenAI (the creator of ChatGPT) has a straightforward compensation system. All employees get a flat base salary of $300,000 and $500,000 in equity yearly. That's it. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/openai-unique-compensation-package-among-tech-companies-ppu-2023-6">More on the unusual salary structure here</a><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/shopify-logistics-deliverr-sale-flexport-layoffs-crisis-2023-6">.</a>6. Shopify's midlife crisis. Layoffs. A failed logistics pivot. Culture shifts. The e-commerce company is struggling to redefine itself. Now, it's planning to pair AI with its original (and successful) software — it just might work. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/shopify-logistics-deliverr-sale-flexport-layoffs-crisis-2023-6">Look into the tumultuous company's future here</a>.7. Microsoft's former HR VP: Leave right away if you're put on a PIP. Chris Williams explained that "surviving [a performance improvement plan] is like a sign on your back." <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/what-to-do-if-placed-on-pip-microsoft-vp-leave-asap-2023-7">Here's his step-by-step advice on what to do after getting "PIPed."</a>8. From selling generic Viagra to selling prescription weight-loss drugs. Injectable anti-obesity and diabetes drugs like Ozempic <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/digital-health-startups-obesity-care-market-ozempic-semaglutide-2023-5">remain in high demand</a>. So digital-health startup Ro pivoted its business plan to bet on the hype. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ro-weight-loss-program-insurance-delays-wegovy-shortage-2023-6">More on its strategy switch here</a>.Odds and ends:<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/home-renovation-greater-syracuse-land-bank-photos-2023-6#-1"></a><div type="image" title="The exterior of an abandoned Victorian house." height="2160" width="2880" msid="101367225" hostid="261" sizebytes="975614"></div>9. This couple is transforming a $7,500 abandoned New York home. Dr. Lindsay Noah-Vermillion and Jim Vermillion are restoring a 120-year-old house back to its Victorian glory. They took Insider behind the scenes of the transformation. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/home-renovation-greater-syracuse-land-bank-photos-2023-6">Check it out here.</a>10. Leasing a car actually makes sense. Despite conventional wisdom, leasing makes a lot of sense for car buyers. It puts people in less debt. You can drive a nicer vehicle. And most repair costs fall on the dealership. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/leasing-a-car-vs-buying-why-lease-is-a-good-idea-2023-6">Hop in for the full picture here.</a>What we're watching today:<ul><li>After years of delay, <a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/virgin-galactic-stock-price-commercial-flight-announced-richard-branson-spce-2023-6">Virgin Galactic is launching commercial space operations today</a>. Crewmembers will conduct microgravity research.</li><li>SpaceX's Cargo Dragon will leave the International Space Station and head back to Earth. <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/nasalive" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Watch NASA's livestream here.</a></li><li>The <a href="https://confidentialcomputingsummit.com/speakers/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Confidential Computing Summit</a> is today in San Francisco. Speakers include leaders from Intel, Microsoft, MIT, and other major institutions.</li></ul>Curated by Diamond Naga Siu in San Diego. (Feedback or tips? Email <a href="mailto:dsiu@insider.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dsiu@insider.com</a> or tweet <a href="http://www.twitter.com/diamondnagasiu" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@diamondnagasiu</a>) Edited by Alistair Barr (tweet <a href="https://twitter.com/alistairmbarr" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@alistairmbarr</a>) in Silicon Valley and Hallam Bullock (tweet <a href="https://twitter.com/hallam_bullock" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@hallam_bullock</a>) in London.

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Hi, I'm Matt Turner, the editor in chief of business at Insider. Welcome back to Insider Today's Sunday edition, a roundup of some of our top stories. On the agenda today:<ul><li>Two multibillion-dollar lawsuits could radically reshape how we buy and <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/real-estate-agents-lawsuits-buy-sell-homes-forever-housing-market-2023-6">sell homes forever</a>.</li><li>In the age of remote work, employers are <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/work-from-home-employers-quiet-quitting-contractors-part-time-gig-2023-6">quiet quitting on employees</a>.</li><li>Decision-makers at family offices revealed what it's really like <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/family-offices-wealth-management-secrets-2023-6">managing billions</a> for the ultra wealthy. </li><li>Silicon Valley is bracing for a startup "<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/silicon-valley-fears-exctinction-event-startup-failure-rate-increase-2023-6">mass-extinction event</a>." </li></ul>But first: It's shaping up to be a <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/airbnb-vrbo-hosts-summer-slowdown-new-normal-2023-6">cruel summer for Airbnb</a> and Vrbo hosts. Read on for more.If this was forwarded to you, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/subscription/newsletter/insider-today-sunday-edition">sign up here</a>. Download Insider's app <a href="https://www.insider.com/app">here.</a><h2>Airbnb's meh middle</h2><div type="image" title="Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky speaks onstage during &quot;Introducing Trips&quot; Reveal at Airbnb Open LA on November 17, 2016 in Los Angeles, California." height="3054" width="4084" msid="101436011" hostid="261" sizebytes="1990096"></div>A <a href="https://www.insider.com/fourth-of-july-travel-airport-chaos-united-flight-delays-cancellations-2023-6">record-breaking number of Americans</a> are expected to fly this weekend. Many of them will be traveling to stay with friends or family, but some, like me, will be heading to short-term rentals. I'll be staying in an Airbnb in upstate New York with friends. Demand for short-term rentals on platforms like Airbnb and Vrbo <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/how-much-airbnb-hosts-earn-in-a-year-revenue-income-2022-3">surged coming out of the pandemic</a> and has continued to increase into this year. One analytics site forecast a 10% increase in nights booked on these platforms for the year. But with many more listings available, the increased supply has more than offset the pickup in demand. That's left hosts having to hustle, dropping prices and worrying about whether last-minute guests will come through. The slowdown is particularly pronounced for hosts with properties in the "meh middle" of listings. While luxe rentals with hot tubs and firepits book months in advance and cheap and cheerful locations attract budget-conscious travelers, the properties in between are getting squeezed.<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/airbnb-listings-summer-mediocre-middle-2023-7">The Airbnb hosts getting squeezed</a><h2>Real-estate reshape</h2><div type="image" title="real estate" height="3640" width="4860" msid="101436014" hostid="261" sizebytes="2172204"></div>The real-estate industry is facing an existential threat. Two class-action lawsuits say home sellers are getting bilked out of billions of dollars every year through a circuitous method of paying real-estate agents. If the plaintiffs succeed, the rules about how agents get paid could be rewritten. It could result in increased competition among agents, dramatically lower commissions, and as much as $30 billion a year in savings for consumers. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/real-estate-agents-lawsuits-buy-sell-homes-forever-housing-market-2023-6">Homebuying as we know it could change</a>. <h2>Workforce 'Uberization'</h2><div type="image" title="An Uber Eats bicyclist" height="1333" width="2000" msid="101436016" hostid="261" sizebytes="62814"></div>Workers aren't the only ones <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/quiet-quitting-job-limits-companies-manager-employee-unpaid-work-2022-8">quiet quitting</a>. In the age of remote work, employers are doing it, too. After the pandemic showed that staff were capable of doing their jobs from home, some employers are now hunting for the cheapest remote workers possible. They're stocking up on part-time employees, temps, independent contractors, and outsourced positions both at home and abroad. A professor at Stanford University described it as the "Uberization of the workforce." In other words: fewer full-time jobs, more low-paying gigs.<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/work-from-home-employers-quiet-quitting-contractors-part-time-gig-2023-6">How companies are gig-ifying the American workforce</a>.Also read:<ul><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/first-there-was-quiet-quitting-now-its-become-grumpy-staying-2023-6">First there was quiet quitting. Now it's become grumpy staying.</a></li></ul><h2>Family office secrets</h2><div type="image" title="IMG_5753" height="963" width="1284" msid="101436018" hostid="261" sizebytes="96768"></div>Family offices manage billions for the likes of the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/family-office-women-cio-investments-bezos-expeditions-brin-bayshore-2022-8">Waltons and Bezoses</a> — but how much do you know about their inner workings? Likely not much. Insider's Ben Bergman did what few have managed: He spoke with six people running family offices and they pulled back the curtain to reveal what goes on behind the scenes. They discussed "managing personalities," focusing on wealth preservation, and more. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/family-offices-wealth-management-secrets-2023-6">Read the full story</a>. Also read:<ul><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/family-offices-ai-rich-americans-wealthy-investing-hype-2023-6">How rich American families are pumping money into AI despite fears of a bubble</a></li></ul><h2>'Extinction event'</h2><div type="image" title="A paper graph is folded in waves as it pushes against the skyline of San Francisco, the hub of Silicon Valley. The graph has a stark red arrow pointing downward. The background is a textured gradient purple and orange." height="600" width="1200" msid="101436020" hostid="261" sizebytes="157622"></div>Startups are about to have a "Darwinian moment." As venture capital dries up, founders are bracing for a "mass-extinction event" toward the end of this year. Already, many startups have spectacularly <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/robot-pizza-startup-zume-shutting-down-raised-500-million-softban-2023-6?utm_medium=newsletter&amp;utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_campaign=Insider%20Today%20-%20June%2029%2C%202023">flamed out</a> — and those left standing often have less than 12 months of runway in the tank. When their funding runs out, data points toward one scenario: a startup bloodbath. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/silicon-valley-fears-exctinction-event-startup-failure-rate-increase-2023-6">What's in store for startups</a>. Also read: <ul><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/fractal-vertical-software-startup-venture-studio-ownership-founder-equity-grant-2023-6">Startup studio Fractal created 130 companies in three years. Founders say the deal structure has led VCs to 'blacklist' them</a>.</li></ul>This week's quote:"Here employees take pay cuts as our company and leadership make record profits. It's not right, no other way to look at it."<ul><li>A leaked message from an internal Microsoft message board, posted by an angry employee after CEO Satya Nadella thanked the troops <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/angry-microsoft-employees-snap-at-satya-nadellas-thank-you-message-2023-6">for a "landmark" fiscal year</a>.</li></ul>More of this week's top reads:<ul><li>The Supreme Court's rejection of Biden's student-loan-forgiveness plan will make a <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/economic-impact-supreme-court-student-loan-forgiveness-ruling-what-means-2023-6">looming economic slowdown even worse</a>.</li><li>OpenAI is <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/openai-unique-compensation-package-among-tech-companies-ppu-2023-6">reinventing tech compensation</a> with flat salaries, no bonuses and no negotiation.</li><li>A huge New York landlord says Fridays in the office are "<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/return-to-office-landlord-friday-dead-forever-hybrid-rto-wfh-2023-5">dead forever</a>."</li><li>Scammers are using AI-generated voices of people's children to <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-voice-generator-phone-scam-imposter-crime-money-cash-2023-6">swindle them</a>.</li><li>Apple, TSMC, and Mazda are moving supply chains out of China. We break down <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/companies-leaving-china-diversifying-supply-chains-apple-tsmc-mazda-2023-6">how they're doing it</a>. </li><li>A $7 billion startup wanted to build patient-friendly healthcare. Its bet on<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ro-weight-loss-program-insurance-delays-wegovy-shortage-2023-6"> buzzy weight-loss drugs is testing that vision.</a></li><li>Experts say the sun's activity could peak early, frying satellites and causing radio blackouts by the end of <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/solar-maximum-could-sooner-than-expected-2023-6">this year</a>.</li><li>What did Jeffrey Epstein's bankers know, and <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/jpmorgan-chase-drawn-out-breakup-with-jeffrey-epstein-2023-6">what should they have known?</a> </li></ul>Curated by Matt Turner. Edited by Hallam Bullock and Lisa Ryan. Get in touch: insidertoday@insider.com

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<ul class="summary-list"><li>AI systems can't legally be considered inventors on <keyword id="6418358" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="Patents">patents</keyword>, the <a href="https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/USPTO/bulletins/287fdc9#.Xqcts2pR6ZQ.email">US Trademark and Patent Office </a>announced Monday, as first reported by <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/29/21241251/artificial-intelligence-inventor-united-states-patent-trademark-office-intellectual-property">The Verge</a>.</li><li>A group of patent lawyers had argued that a "<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/team-behind-ai-inventor-challenges-patent-laws-around-the-world?r=US&amp;IR=TIR=T">creativity machine</a>," called DABUS, should be listed as an inventor on patents for a shape-changing drink container and a flashing light that mimics brain activity.</li><li>But the patent office disagreed, determining that under current law, "only natural persons may be named as an inventor in a <keyword id="555804" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="patent-application">patent application</keyword>."</li><li>Patent authorities in the UK and Europe <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/first-robot-inventor-rejected-british-and-european-authorities">previously been rejected</a> applications from the group.</li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/?hprecirc-bullet">Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories</a>.</li></ul><keyword id="107950" type="TECHNOLOGY" weightage="60" keywordseo="artificial-intelligence">Artificial intelligence</keyword> systems cannot legally be credited as inventors on patent applications, the US Trademark and Patent Office (USTPO) <a href="https://www.uspto.gov/sites/default/files/documents/16524350_22apr2020.pdf?utm_campaign=subscriptioncenter&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_name=&amp;utm_source=govdelivery&amp;utm_term=livery&amp;utm_term=">said in a ruling</a> Monday that was first reported by <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/29/21241251/artificial-intelligence-inventor-united-states-patent-trademark-office-intellectual-property">The Verge</a>."USPTO regulations and rules limit inventorship to natural persons," the agency wrote in its decision to reject a petition arguing that two patents should list an AI system called DABUS as an inventor.DABUS, a creation of Missouri-based AI expert Dr. Stephen Thaler, was fed a wealth of information including abstract concepts related to design, practicality, color, and emotion. Afterward, the AI program designed two original inventions.The first is a fractal drink container that can change shapes, making it easier for prosthetic or robotic hands to grip. The second is a flickering light that mimics brain activity — or "neural flame," as Thaler dubbed it — that could potentially be more effective at catching a person's attention in an emergency situation.The <a href="http://artificialinventor.com/">Artificial Inventor Project</a>, an international group of legal experts that filed the patents, has previously filed similar applications across the world in an attempt to convince patent authorities to recognize AI systems as inventors, arguing that current laws are outdated and fail to account for machines' creative output.So far, the group has been unsuccessful. Earlier this year, the UK's Intellectual Property Office and the European Patent Office both <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/first-robot-inventor-rejected-british-and-european-authorities">rejected patent applications</a> submitted by Artificial Inventor Project for the drink container and flickering light designed by DABUS. The group has also <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/team-behind-ai-inventor-challenges-patent-laws-around-the-world?r=US&amp;IR=TIR=T">filed applications in Israel, Taiwan, and Germany</a>, and is recruiting patent lawyers around the world to join its efforts.Martin Coulter contributed reporting to this story.Read the original article on <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/artificial-inteligence-cant-legally-named-inventor-us-patent-office-ruling-2020-4">Business Insider</a>

No, an artificial intelligence can't legally invent something — only 'natural persons' can, says US patent office

VCG/VCG via Getty Images<ul class="summary-list"><li>Scientists and lawyers want to change laws around the world so that artificially intelligent machines can be credited on patents as the inventors of ideas.</li><li>An international team of legal experts has revealed it is recruiting patent lawyers from around the world in attempt to gain recognition of AI inventors. The team previously filed patents in the US, EU and UK, and has now reached out to authorities in the Middle East and Asia.</li><li>That's after an AI called Dabus came up with two new ideas: a new type of food storage container, and a new kind of lamp.</li><li>Dabus may struggle for formal recognition after the UK issued guidance suggesting it would not accept robot inventors, while the US has taken comments from members of the public to figure out what to do next.</li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/prime?module=article&amp;area=summary">Click here for more BI Prime stories</a>.</li></ul>Artificially intelligent machines could soon join the ranks of the world's greatest inventors.There is a legal battle brewing over whether robot inventors should be granted the same recognition as human creators.That's being led by an international squad of legal experts, which has revealed plans to recruit patent lawyers from around the world in an attempt to upend "outdated" rules disqualifying AI inventors.The group argues that autonomous machines shouldn't be barred from being inventors, and that their designs deserve protection.As the capacity for artificial intelligence to come up with original ideas has rapidly improved, legislators everywhere have been scrambling to figure out how to respond. Can an AI own intellectual property?The six-strong group from around the world first <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-49191645">made headlines in July</a> after submitting patents designed by an artificially intelligent machine with US, UK and EU authorities.<h2>Dabus is an AI inventor which invented a new type of food container and a lamp</h2><a href="http://artificialinventor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Neural-Flame-Drawings.pdf">The Artificial Inventor Project</a>Dabus came up with a fractal design for a new type of food container.The team is battling to recognise a particular AI inventor called Dabus.Dabus, the creation of Missouri-based AI expert Dr Stephen Thaler, was fed a wealth of information including a number of abstract concepts related to design, practicality, colour and emotion. Afterwards, the AI was able to design two original inventions of its own.The first was a "fractal food container", a kind of lunchbox capable of changing its shape, making it an easier fit for a range of different foodstuffs, and easier for prosthetic or robotic limbs to grip.The second was a flickering lamp, or "neural flame" as the team dubbed it, which mimics brain activity in a way that theoretically draws more attention from the human eye. The application suggested this could be used in emergency situations in order to draw the attention of rescue services.<h2>We could enter a new age of AI inventors</h2>While the initial applications including Dabus have yet to be officially decided on, the team said they intended to target more patent offices around the world - and have already submitted designs in the Middle East and Asia.Ryan Abbott, a professor of law and health sciences at the University of Surrey, exclusively told Business Insider the six-strong team of patent attorneys had submitted Dabus' designs to authorities in Israel, Taiwan and Germany - with more in the pipeline."Since we originally submitted the designs, we've received a lot of interest from lawyers in different jurisdictions," said Prof Abbott. "So now we're actively recruiting experts around the world, so that we can have the best chance of navigating local patent laws, and long-term achieving some change at the international level."The newest member of the team, Peggy Wu, is executive manager at Top Team, one of the biggest intellectual property firms in Taiwan.Wu told Business Insider she agreed to join the team after realising machine inventors were "no longer confined to science fiction"."I had seen some articles talking about AI inventors, but hadn't paid serious attention to it," she said. "But after speaking to the team, I realised how important it was - we are already living in the age of AI inventors."The main idea behind the patent system is to improve the development of industry... If AI-generated inventions can't be protected by patent rights, it's very likely the big players with AI powers will keep their inventions as trade secrets. I think that would be a boundary to shared knowledge and polarize the competition."Since the team submitted their applications, authorities have begun engaging with the question of machine inventors more publicly.In October, the UK Intellectual Property Office quietly issued an update to its guidance on inventorship, saying an inventor had to be "a person" and that applications listing an AI would be withdrawn.Across the Atlantic, the US Patent and Trademark Office published a notice saying it was seeking comments from the public on the rules around patents designed by artificial inventors.Business Insider approached the Israel Patent Office, German Patent and Trademark Office, and Taiwan Intellectual Property Office for comment. <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/what-is-meteor-shower-perseids-orionids-leonids-2018-8">Here's what you're actually seeing when you spot a meteor shower</a></h3>

The battle to recognise machines as 'inventors' alongside humans just hit the Middle East and Asia

<ul><li>The Karnataka government has adopted the Coronavirus tracking platform developed by Nasscom taskforce.</li><li>The taskforce includes companies like Intel India, Microsoft, Wirpo, AWS, Mindtree, Infosys, SAP Labs India and others.</li></ul> Karnataka government has adopted a Covid tracking platform developed by Nasscom Task Force to continue its fight against the pandemic using technology, said a minister on Saturday. "We have been driving all our efforts tirelessly to fight this ongoing crisis and it has been great to witness the industry joining their hands against our war on Covid. In these testing times technology innovation has been our greatest ally," said Deputy Chief Minister C. N. Ashwathnarayan in a statement. The end to end tracking platform is based on open architecture using advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI) models to help state governments take informed decisions. Coming with a plug and play option, Karnataka government can choose the features it wants to use and can also integrate the solution with its existing platform. It can be hosted on any cloud platform as preferred by the government. Multiple IT players have collaborated for free to build the platform whose initial set of dashboards will be offered to the government. Six dashboards have been developed for the southern state which include Covid summary, Covid source analysis, testing summary, tests by category, hospital capacity and India summary. Nasscom Task Force consists of Intel India, Fractal Analytics, Microsoft India, AWS, Mindtree, SAP Labs India, Infosys, Accenture, Wipro, Sprinklr, Tableau, Mapbox and others. The IT industry body aims to deliver a similar platform to other states as well. SEE ALSO: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/apps/how-to/indian-government-launches-app-to-track-coronavirus-patients-called-aarogya-setu/articleshow/74949415.cms">How to download and use Aarogya Setu Coronavirus tracking app</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/news/experts-explain-the-legal-and-moral-pitfalls-in-aarogya-setu-app-despite-the-governments-insistence-that-a-protocol-has-been-put-in-place/articleshow/75690239.cms">Experts explain the legal and moral pitfalls in Aarogya Setu app ⁠— despite the government’s insistence that a protocol has been put in place</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/apps/news/uk-rejects-coronavirus-tracking-app-framework-proposed-by-google-and-apple-to-create-its-own-centralised-app/articleshow/75445032.cms">UK rejects Google and Apple's Coronavirus tracking app framework</a>

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