“101.school is an experiment in creating AI generated course contents. It works like this: you enter something you’re curious about, and then we generate a 13 week course on the subject. You can choose to receive the course via email, or read it on the site. We’ll keep track of your progress. An Alex MacCaw… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: August 2023
Navigating LLMs and Generative AI: A Primer for Information Science Practitioners
Via SLA – Free Webinar: “Devin Conathon of Liberty Mutual Insurance will provide an introduction to Large Language Models (LLM) and Generative AI. Devin is a data scientist with machine learning research and development experience. Join us to learn more from Devin about what Generative AI is and how it will impact the world around… Continue Reading
Practical AI for Teachers and Students
Wharton School – 5 Part Course on YouTube for Students and Instructors/Teachers – Description of the Introduction: “In this introduction, Wharton Interactive’s Faculty Director Ethan Mollick and Director of Pedagogy Lilach Mollick provide an overview of how large language models (LLMs) work and explain how this latest generation of models has impacted how we work… Continue Reading
Your guide to AI: August 2023
Nathan Benaich, August 6, 2023 – “Welcome to the latest issue of your guide to AI, an editorialized newsletter covering key developments in AI policy, research, industry, and startups. This special summer edition (while we’re producing the State of AI Report 2023!) covers our 7th annual Research and Applied AI Summit that we held in… Continue Reading
Federal and State Courts: Structure and Interaction
CRS Report – Federal and State Courts: Structure and Interaction, August 2, 2023: “In the United States, the federal government and the states each have their own set of laws and their own court systems. Federal and state courts vary in structure, with significant differences between the federal and state judiciaries as well as variation… Continue Reading
MIT Press’s Direct to Open (D2O) achieves second year goal
MIT Press: “With 322 participating libraries and new consortium agreements, the D2O publishing model has now opened access to more than 160 scholarly monographs and edited collections Thanks to the support of libraries participating in Direct to Open (D2O), the MIT Press will publish its full list (see below) of 2023 scholarly monographs and edited… Continue Reading
Tracking Record High Heat in the United States
Center for Data Innovation: “The Pudding created a visualization to explore record-high temperatures in the United States. The country is currently experiencing the hottest summer on record, and this visualization tracks how many days since a city set a record high heat. The visualization shows that cities along the Gulf of Mexico are experiencing an… Continue Reading
Booklash: Literary Freedom, Online Outrage, and the Language of Harm
“In a new report, Booklash: Literary Freedom, Online Outrage, and the Language of Harm, PEN America warns that social media blowback and societal outrage are imposing new moral litmus tests on books and authors, chilling literary expression and fueling a dangerous trend of self-censorship that is shrinking writers’ creative freedom and imagination. Offering a forceful… Continue Reading
Google Search can now check your grammar
9to5Google: “Here’s how to activate – Google Search has a number of built-in tools from its dictionary to a metronome and multi-sided die, with the most recent addition letting you check grammar on mobile and desktop. Google says its grammar checker will see “if a phrase or sentence is written in a grammatically correct way… Continue Reading
Severance Agreements Requiring Employees to Broadly Waive Labor Law Rights
NLRB [this dates from February 2023]: “The Board issued a decision in McLaren Macomb, returning to longstanding precedent holding that employers may not offer employees severance agreements that require employees to broadly waive their rights under the National Labor Relations Act. The decision involved severance agreements offered to furloughed employees that prohibited them from making… Continue Reading
Zoom May Use Your Calls and Data to Train AI
Cyber Kendra: “…Recently, the popular video conferencing platform, Zoom, brought in a significant change to its terms of service which has sent ripples of worry across its vast user base. With this revision, Zoom has brought under its wing the permission to use users’ data to train Artificial Intelligence (AI). While this has undoubtedly sparked… Continue Reading
The State of State AI Laws
Tech Policy Press: “Lots of voices are calling for the regulation of artificial intelligence. In the US, at present it seems there is no federal legislation close to becoming law. But in 2023 legislative sessions in states across the country, there has been a surge in AI laws proposed and passed, and some have already… Continue Reading
