Washington Post: “Our phone screens, like our homes, are stages where our lives play out. As such, they deserve our care and respect, Amanda Dodson, a TikTok creator and organization coach, said. “My philosophy is that these silly little tasks that we have to do in our lives — like clean up your phone screen… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: May 2023
Microsoft Bing adds AI chat history, exports, visual search results, new web integrations
GeekWire: “Microsoft is updating its OpenAI-powered Bing search chatbot with several new features, and expanding its availability beyond the initial limited preview, looking to build on its momentum three months after the initial launch. Bing has grown to more than 100 million daily active users since Microsoft released the AI chat features, giving Bing new… Continue Reading
So long passwords, thanks for all the phish
Google Blog: “Starting today, you can create and use passkeys on your personal Google Account. When you do, Google will not ask for your password or 2-Step Verification (2SV) when you sign in Passkeys are a more convenient and safer alternative to passwords. They work on all major platforms and browsers, and allow users to… Continue Reading
Bush v. Gore docs among new releases from Justice Stevens archives
NBC News: “Internal documents concerning the Supreme Court‘s historic Bush v. Gore decision in 2000 that handed the White House to President George W. Bush are being made public Tuesday, with the Library of Congress releasing a new trove of papers from the archives of Justice John Paul Stevens. Stevens, who died in 2019 at… Continue Reading
eBird Status and Trends
“High-resolution data, visualizations, and tools describing where bird populations occur and how they change through time—powered by eBird data and updated annually, providing you with the best available science. The eBird Science team uses state-of-the-art statistical models and machine learning to build visualizations and tools to help decision makers, scientists, and birders alike to better… Continue Reading
The Luring Test: AI and the engineering of consumer trust
FTC – Michael Atleson, Attorney, FTC Division of Advertising Practices: “In the 2014 movie Ex Machina, a robot manipulates someone into freeing it from its confines, resulting in the person being confined instead. The robot was designed to manipulate that person’s emotions, and, oops, that’s what it did. While the scenario is pure speculative fiction, companies… Continue Reading
Beginner’s guide to extracting data from PDFs
Media Hack, Laura Grant: “Journalists get lots of data in PDF format — they can be tables of data that are embedded in reports or spreadsheets that have been thoughtfully saved as PDFs before they’re emailed to you — but until you can get that data into a spreadsheet, there’s not much you can do… Continue Reading
New Tool Shows if Your Car Might Be Tracking You, Selling Your Data
Vice: “A new tool that is free to use for consumers aims to better inform people about the types of data their particular car manufacturer might be collecting and sharing about their identity and driving patterns. The Vehicle Privacy Report tool, made by automotive privacy company Privacy4Cars, is based on a manual and automatic analysis… Continue Reading
AI Tools for Lawyers: A Practical Guide
Schwarcz, Daniel B. and Choi, Jonathan H., AI Tools for Lawyers: A Practical Guide (March 29, 2023). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4404017 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4404017 “This Article provides lawyers and law students with practical and specific guidance on how to effectively use AI large language models (LLMs), like GPT-4, Bing Chat, and Bard, in legal research and… Continue Reading
Twitter’s Killer App: Real-Time Search. Anyone can search the past, but only Twitter can unearth the present
Every: “Real-time search. Google doesn’t have it. Neither does ChatGPT. Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, and Facebook probably wish they had it, but they don’t. Twitter, Silicon Valley’s favorite shitshow, is the only one with this power. And for some inexplicable reason, it’s not doing anything with it. Twitter has a tremendous amount of live, real-time data… Continue Reading
FDIC’s proposal for deposit reform is narrow and uninspiring—and it just might work
Quartz: “The bank regulator wants Congress to lift the deposit insurance cap for business payroll accounts. When it comes to deposit insurance rules, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) only wants the US Congress to change what it absolutely must. In a new report issued in the wake of Silicon Valley Bank’s failure, the banking regulator… Continue Reading
Upgrade Your Browser With a ChatGPT Sidebar
Lifehacker: “Microsoft Edge, and only Microsoft Edge, employs artificial intelligence as your browser co-pilot, thanks to the integrated Bing sidebar. But nothing is stopping you, or clever developers, from adding a ChatGPT sidebar to any Chrome-based browser—a tool that will help you generate summaries, ask research questions, find similar pages, and more. The ChitChat ChatGPT… Continue Reading
