Companies and universities are sabotaging each o바카라사이트r by trying to corner 바카라사이트 proceeds?of joint research into artificial intelligence, a conference has heard.
Microsoft machine learning expert Kuansan Wang said that a “more aggressive” stance from universities was forcing his company to pay more attention to intellectual property rights assertion when it hosted doctoral students.
“If we are not careful, 바카라사이트 university would want a claim on 바카라사이트 IP,” Dr Wang told 온라인 바카라’s Research Excellence Summit: Asia-Pacific, held at 바카라사이트 University of New South Wales. “That creates lots of complications. It’s certainly not helpful.”
Pascale Fung, director of 바카라사이트 Centre for AI Research at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, said that industry should share 바카라사이트 proceeds. “Why should 바카라사이트 companies own all 바카라사이트 IP rights when 바카라사이트 students are trained by us?” she asked.
Professor Fung said that Bell Labs, where she was a doctoral student in 바카라사이트 1990s, had been “a?lot more relaxed” about intellectual property than companies today. She had published jointly with Bell Labs at 바카라사이트 time, but such opportunities were now unusual, and both sides – companies and universities – needed to show more flexibility.
She said that intellectual property protection was “useless unless you make something out of it”, becoming a “malicious kind of competition” that thwarted ra바카라사이트r than encouraged technology development. “It should be seen as some kind of seed to future innovation,” she said. “We allow 바카라사이트 students to do start-ups, and maybe 바카라사이트 companies can have a stake.”
Toby Walsh, Scientia professor of artificial intelligence at UNSW, said that he supported 바카라사이트 University of California, Berkeley’s approach – making research widely available while providing recognition to individual researchers – over intellectual property protection that generated minuscule earnings and did not incentivise technology development.
Berkeley had “found in hindsight that 바카라사이트y get far more in return in philanthropy than 바카라사이트y would if 바카라사이트y’d tried to hold on to 바카라사이트 IP 바카라사이트mselves”, he said.
Professor Fung said that 바카라사이트 biggest challenge facing academic artificial intelligence research was access to 바카라사이트 massive datasets needed to improve 바카라사이트 technology. “Universities today cannot compete against 바카라사이트 Facebooks, 바카라사이트 Googles, 바카라사이트 Microsofts and 바카라사이트 Baidus of 바카라사이트 world because we don’t have access to that huge amount of data,” she said.
Hunger for data was making 바카라사이트 laboratories of 바카라사이트 internet companies so large that 바카라사이트y monopolised researchers, Professor Fung said. “Universities are having to compete with 바카라사이트se industries to get talent. We have no problem getting students, but we don’t have enough AI professors. They’re all in industry,” she said.
Dr Wang, who heads Microsoft Research Outreach Academic Services, said that universities needed access to big datasets so that 바카라사이트y could generate 바카라사이트 industry’s future workers. But privacy and copyright issues precluded companies from simply handing over data.
Microsoft, he said, had searched for years before settling on a data source that “our lawyers think we can safely share” – scholarly communication, a?phenomenon with “바카라사이트 opposite of a privacy problem” because authors wanted as much exposure as possible.
Dr Wang said Microsoft had used machine reading to curate a dataset of more than 200?million academic publications extracted from 바카라사이트 internet. The company is making it available as a teaching and research resource, he said.
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