Gizmodo – “Google updated its privacy policy over the weekend, explicitly saying the company reserves the right to scrape just about everything you post online to build its AI tools. If Google can read your words, assume they belong to the company now, and expect that they’re nesting somewhere in the bowels of a chatbot. “Google uses information to improve our services and to develop new products, features and technologies that benefit our users and the public,” the new Google policy says. “For example, we use publicly available information to help train Google’s AI models and build products and features like Google Translate, Bard, and Cloud AI capabilities.”
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Daily Archives: July 4, 2023
LLRX June 2023 Issue
LLRX June 2023 Issue – Articles and Columns for June 2023 Brevity is the Soul of Profit: What Lawyers Need to Know About Executive Summaries – Elizabeth Southerland – The purpose of an executive summary is to boil this down to a few sentences that tell the leader what they want to know. AI and… Continue Reading
Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, June 30, 2023
Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, June 30, 2023 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly… Continue Reading
Gun homicides have reached rates not seen since the 1990s
USA Facts: “In 2021, 81% of all homicides in the US were due to firearm-related injuries.. In 2020, the national homicide rate increased by 30%. That is the largest single-year increase in over a century. However, not all types of homicide grew at the same rate. Between 2019 and 2021, firearm homicide rates increased 44%,… Continue Reading
TikTok Sells A Lot of Books. Now, Its Owner Wants to Publish Them, Too.
The New York Times [and free link] – “As ByteDance launches a publishing company, many in the book world wonder if it will create an uneven playing field by boosting its own authors at the expense of others…Even under increased regulatory scrutiny over concerns it could be influenced by the Chinese government, ByteDance can reach… Continue Reading
Artificial Intelligence in Science
Artificial Intelligence in Science – Challenges, Opportunities and the Future of Research [300 page e-book available free via OECD]: “The rapid advances of artificial intelligence (AI) in recent years have led to numerous creative applications in science. Accelerating the productivity of science could be the most economically and socially valuable of all the uses of… Continue Reading
New features coming to Fact Check Explorer
Google Blog: “The work of the fact-checking community is important not only to check harmful mis- and disinformation, but also to give people the tools to learn more about sources, stories and images for themselves. It’s just one way to help counter misinformation. While many people may have found themselves needing to verify a claim… Continue Reading
Drought and Public Health: A Roadmap for Advancing Engagement and Preparedness
Drought.gov: “Drought is one of the costliest and deadliest climate-related disasters in the United States, necessitating public health engagement at a national level. Although drought is not typically thought of as a health hazard, the pathways to human health outcomes are prevalent and numerous. To better understand these pathways, and actions that could be taken… Continue Reading
A.I. Is Coming for Mathematics, Too
The New York Times [free link]: “For thousands of years, mathematicians have adapted to the latest advances in logic and reasoning. Are they ready for artificial intelligence?…Mathematicians have responded to these disruptions with varying levels of concern. Michael Harris, at Columbia University, expresses qualms in his “Silicon Reckoner” Substack. He is troubled by the potentially… Continue Reading
Barely a quarter of Americans still have landlines
Washington Post: “…the startling answer is that about 73 percent of American adults lived in a household without a landline at the end of last year — a figure that has tripled since 2010…Every six months, as new interviews roll in, Blumberg [who now runs the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS)] and his colleagues release… Continue Reading
