The Cambridge Law Corpus: A Corpus for Legal AI Research Andreas Östling, Holli Sargeant, Huiyuan Xie, Ludwig Bull, Alexander Terenin, Leif Jonsson, Måns Magnusson, Felix Steffek. arXiv:2309.12269 [cs.CL] [v1] Thu, 21 Sep 2023 17:24:40 UTC “We introduce the Cambridge Law Corpus (CLC), a corpus for legal AI research. It consists of over 250 000 court… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: September 2023
Project Gutenberg turned ebooks in its digital library into audiobooks without any need for human voices
Quartz: “The oldest digital library in the world, Project Gutenberg, has transformed thousands of ebooks into audiobooks using AI—bypassing the longer (and more expensive) process of hiring a human reader to do the job. It’s exactly the kind of AI application that actors, who are currently on strike in the US for the first time… Continue Reading
Wikipedia search-by-vibes through millions of pages offline
“What is This? This is a browser-based search engine for Wikipedia, where you can search for “the reddish tall trees on the san francisco coast” and find results like “Sequoia sempervirens” (a name of a redwood tree). The browser downloads the database, and search happens offline. To download two million Wikipedia pages with their titles… Continue Reading
SEC obtains Wall Street firms’ private chats in probe of WhatsApp, Signal use
Ars Technica: “The US Securities and Exchange Commission has “collected thousands of staff messages from more than a dozen major investment companies” as it expands a probe into how employees and executives at Wall Street firms use private messaging platforms such as WhatsApp and Signal, Reuters reported today, citing “four people with direct knowledge of… Continue Reading
Gliding, not searching: Here’s how to reset your view of ChatGPT to steer it to better results
Via LLRX – Gliding, not searching: Here’s how to reset your view of ChatGPT to steer it to better results – Human factors engineer James Intriligator makes a clear and important distinction for researchers: that unlike a search engine, with static and stored results, ChatGPT never copies, retrieves or looks up information from anywhere. Rather,… Continue Reading
Delegitimizing the Supreme Court: The Lessons of Dred Scott
Booth, Jonathon, Delegitimizing the Supreme Court: The Lessons of Dred Scott (August 28, 2023). 51 UC Law Constitutional Quarterly, Forthcoming, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4554642 “This Article examines how anti-slavery Republicans delegitimized the Supreme Court in the aftermath of Dred Scott v. Sandford, 60 U.S. 393 (1857) and compares this history to contemporary attempts to reform… Continue Reading
Behind the Scenes at ‘Have I Been Pwned’
Via Slashdot and contributor slincolne [the link is behind a paywall]: “The founder of the data-breach notification site Have I Been Pwned manages “the largest known repository of stolen data on the planet,” reports Australia’s public broadcaster ABC, including over 6 billion email address. Yet with no employees, Troy Hunt manages all of the technical… Continue Reading
The Man Who Trapped Us in Databases
The New York Times [read free]- “Hank Asher was a drug smuggler with a head for numbers — until he figured out how to turn Americans’ private information into a big business. One of Asher’s innovations — or more precisely one of his companies’ innovations — was what is now known as the LexID. My… Continue Reading
The Band of Debunkers Busting Bad Scientists
WSJ (free link) – “Stanford’s president and a high-profile physicist are among those taken down by a growing wave of volunteers who expose faulty or fraudulent research papers. An award-winning Harvard Business School professor and researcher spent years exploring the reasons people lie and cheat. A trio of behavioral scientists examining a handful of her… Continue Reading
Mastodon 4.2 A new search experience and more!
Eugen Rochko Founder CEO: “As Mastodon continues to grow, we’d like to make sure we’re doing all we can to help you connect with your friends and your interests. Most importantly, we want to bring you features that make it much easier to connect with people that matter to you. In this version we overhauled… Continue Reading
Your Face Belongs to Us: A Conversation with Kashmir Hill
Tech Policy Press: “In 2019, journalist Kashmir Hill had just joined The New York Times when she got a tip about the existence of a company called Clearview AI that claimed it could identify almost anyone with a photo. But the company was hard to contact, and people who knew about it didn’t want to… Continue Reading
Lawyers Don’t Like New Technology, Except When They Do
Jennifer Marsh @legalytical – “In the legal world, there’s a common refrain that lawyers don’t like technology. But that’s not true. During the early part of my career, I witnessed how lawyers changed the way they researched, moving from using books to researching online. While this change happened many years ago, it was incredibly significant.… Continue Reading
