In an interview with Harvard Law Today, Partner Louis Tompros discusses the state of the AI industry, the laws that apply and what the world can expect now that the first shots of the AI wars have been fired.
Excerpt: “AI products generally fall into three categories: text-based AI, visual-based AI, and video-based AI. At the moment, major players in the industry are developing models for every one of those functions. OpenAI is the developer of ChatGPT, DALL-E, and Sora. Google, Microsoft, Meta and Apple are all offering consumer-facing systems as well. Then there are companies like Nvidia, IBM, and Intel that sell the AI hardware used to power systems and train models. I think it’s notable that these are all are big, US-based companies. Even on the hardware side, these are the exact Silicon Valley companies anyone would expect. Until recently, there was an industry-wide assumption that AI systems need the high-powered technology these hardware companies produce in order to train models.”