Boston Review: “Questions of AI authorship and ownership can be divided into two broad types. One concerns the vast troves of human-authored material fed into AI models as part of their “training” (the process by which their algorithms “learn” from data). The other concerns ownership of what AIs produce. Call these, respectively, the input and… Continue Reading
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AI has taken over Google Search and Image results
Android Trends: “A recent study shows that AI has taken over a big part of Google’s search results. AI-generated summaries now appear in almost half of all searches, taking up a lot of space on both desktop and mobile screens. This is changing the way people experience Google search. Also, Google Image Search now shows… Continue Reading
Every AI Copyright Lawsuit in the US, Visualized
Wired: “WIRED is following every copyright battle involving the AI industry—and we’ve created some handy visualizations that will be updated as the cases progress. In May 2020, the media and technology conglomerate Thomson Reuters sued a small legal AI startup called Ross Intelligence, alleging that it had violated US copyright law by reproducing materials from… Continue Reading
AI Image Generators Explained: How They Work and What They Can Do
How to Geek – “AI-generated images are everywhere now, and the very best of them look so good you’d never know they were made by a machine and not by a human. But, how is this possible? The answer to how AI image generation works is both simple, and very complicated. AI-generated images rely on… Continue Reading
For Some Reason, You Can Now Access ChatGPT Through 1-800-CHATGPT
MakeUseOf: “You can only call in the United States, and conversations are limited to 15 minutes per month tied to a specific phone number. Anyone with WhatsApp globally can message 1-800-242-8478 to access the AI assistant…” Continue Reading
Uber for Nursing: How an AI-Powered Gig Model Is Threatening Health Care
Roosevelt Institute: “The gig economy’s labor model and its algorithmic management technologies now have a foothold in one of the largest labor sectors in the country: health care. On-demand nursing companies such as CareRev, Clipboard Health, ShiftKey, and ShiftMed have promised hospitals more control and nurses more flexibility. Through original interviews with 29 “gig” nurses… Continue Reading
BirdVoxDetect: Large-Scale Detection and Classification of Flight Calls for Bird Migration Monitoring
V. Lostanlen et al., “BirdVoxDetect: Large-Scale Detection and Classification of Flight Calls for Bird Migration Monitoring,” in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, vol. 32, pp. 4134-4145, 2024, doi: 10.1109/TASLP.2024.3444486. “Sound event classification has the potential to advance our understanding of bird migration. Although it is long known that migratory species have a… Continue Reading
Federal government discloses more than 1,700 AI use cases
FedScoop: “A consolidated list of federal artificial intelligence use cases released by the White House on Wednesday shows agencies more than doubled the amount of uses reported last year.Per the 2024 consolidated inventory, which is available on the Office of Management and Budget’s GitHub, 37 federal agencies have reported 1,757 public AI uses. A consolidated… Continue Reading
Introducing QuizBot an Innovative AI-Assisted Assessment in Legal Education
Harrington, Sean, Introducing QuizBot an Innovative AI-Assisted Assessment in Legal Education (October 03, 2024). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4975804 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4975804 – “This Article explores an innovative approach to assessment in legal education: an AI-assisted quiz system implemented in an AI & the Practice of Law course. The system employs a Socratic method-inspired chatbot to engage… Continue Reading
You Can Now Search the Internet With ChatGPT
Lifehacker – “ChatGPT search has been out now for about a month and a half, following a Halloween announcement from OpenAI. With this new feature, the company finally rolled out an official competitor to AI search engines like Perplexity, Google’s AI Overviews, and Microsoft Bing (powered by Copilot). OpenAI originally announced its search plans back… Continue Reading
AI in Finance and Banking – December 16, 2024
AI in Finance and Banking – December 16, 2024 – This semi-monthly column by Sabrina I. Pacifici, highlights news, government documents, NGO/IGO papers, conferences, industry white papers and reports, academic papers and speeches, and central bank actions on the subject of AI’s fast paced impact on the banking and finance sectors. The chronological links provided… Continue Reading
Inescapable AI
A Report from TechTonic Justice – Inescapable AI The Ways AI Decides How Low-Income People Work, Live, Learn, and Survive – “The use of artificial intelligence, or AI, by governments, landlords, employers, and other powerful private interests restricts the opportunities of low-income people in every basic aspect of life: at home, at work, in school,… Continue Reading
