Via LLRX – ChatGPT: What It Is And Why It Matters To Lawyers – Attorney and legal technologist Nicole L. Black cautions user that ChatGPT is a great start, but that’s all it is. No matter what you’re using ChatGPT for, whether for personal or professional reasons, you’ll need to have a full understanding of the topic at… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: February 2023
What the First Amendment really says – 4 basic principles of free speech in the US
Via LLRX – What the First Amendment really says – 4 basic principles of free speech in the US – Lynn Greenky, Associate Professor of Communication and Rhetorical Studies, Syracuse University delves into Elon Musk’s claim that he believes in free speech no matter what. He calls it a bulwark against tyranny in America and promises… Continue Reading
The Efficacy of ChatGPT: Is it Time for the Librarians to Go Home?
Via LLRX – The Efficacy of ChatGPT: Is it Time for the Librarians to Go Home? In preparation for a presentation about race and academic libraries, Curtis Kendrick, formerly Dean and currently Binghamton University Libraries Faculty and Staff mentor, tried ChatGPT (Jan 9 version) to see what it (they?) had to say. He was curious… Continue Reading
Long COVID Now Looks like a Neurological Disease, Helping Doctors to Focus Treatments
Scientific American: “..People with long COVID have symptoms such as pain, extreme fatigue and “brain fog,” or difficulty concentrating or remembering things. As of February 2022, the syndrome was estimated to affect about 16 million adults in the U.S. and had forced between two million and four million Americans out of the workforce, many of… Continue Reading
TNI’s State of Power report: Who has digital power today?
TNI – Let’s start with a big open question that is at the heart of TNI’s: Who has digital power today? – Interview with Cory Doctorow – “Cory Doctorow is a prolific writer and a brilliant science fiction novelist, journalist and technology activist. He is a special consultant to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff.org (external… Continue Reading
Return to Sender: How I Unsubscribed From Catalogs and Stopped Junk Mail
PC Mag – “I set out to cancel all the catalogs and marketing mail that I got over the course of about six weeks. Here’s what happened, including the method that worked best.” Continue Reading
Why Does AI Lie, and What Can We Do About It?
YouTube: “How do we make sure language models tell the truth?” Explaining AI Alignment to anyone who’ll stand still for long enough, on YouTube and Discord. His YouTube channel: AI Safety Talks! https://youtube.com/@aisafetytalks. It hosts high quality talks from AI Alignment researchers, giving a bit more depth and technical detail than my videos. “While Robert… Continue Reading
Foreign Legal Gazettes in the Law Library of Congress
Celebrating Over 10,000 Foreign Legal Gazette Issues Now Online. “Since the mid-nineteenth century, the Law Library of Congress has been collecting foreign official gazettes and maintains the largest collection of these sources in the entire world. The Law Library’s gazette collection contains current, historical, and subnational jurisdictions from most countries and in most languages. Official… Continue Reading
New Recommended Practice, Video & Audio Metadata Guidelines
Video & Audio Metadata Guidelines Working Group. NISO RP-41-2023, Video & Audio Metadata Guidelines, now Published! “The new Recommended Practice, NISO RP-41-2023, Video & Audio Metadata Guidelines, was approved February 10 and published February 13, 2023. Comments received during the public comment period in 2022 remain available. Background Information: In today’s academic, research and professional information… Continue Reading
Why you shouldn’t trust AI search engines
MIT Technology Review: “…Approximately two seconds after Microsoft let people poke around with its new ChatGPT-powered Bing search engine, people started finding that it responded to some questions with incorrect or nonsensical answers, such as conspiracy theories. Google had an embarrassing moment when scientists spotted a factual error in the company’s own advertisement for its chatbot Bard,… Continue Reading
Blockchain – Innovation or Illusion?
Via Slashdot, EditorDavid: “Adam R. Smith, a software engineer with 40+ years of experience reportedly became frustrated with his friends and associates’ claims about the potential of crypto technology and their subsequent losses of money in various schemes, and set out to write a series of articles explaining what blockchain is and whether it lives… Continue Reading
The First Interactive Map with AI-Detected Fields and Crops
OneSoil:” Compare ratings for more than half the world. Get insights about local and global trends in crop production. For farmers, advisers, dealers, students and just curious people…First launched in 2018, the updated OneSoil Map allows you to explore fields and crops in more than half the world for 2020. Anyone can get global agricultural… Continue Reading
