“The David Rumsey Map Collection was started over 35 years ago and contains more than 200,000 maps. The collection focuses on rare 16th through 21st century maps of North and South America, as well as maps of the World, Asia, Africa, Europe, and Oceania. The collection includes atlases, globes, wall maps, school geographies, pocket maps,… Continue Reading
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A Manifesto on Enforcing Law in the Age of ‘Artificial Intelligence’
A Manifesto on Enforcing Law in the Age of ‘Artificial Intelligence. Transatlantic Reflection Group on Democracy and the Rule of Law in the Age of “Artificial Intelligence”. First published: 26 October 2023. https://doi.org/10.1111/eulj.12474 “Building upon A Manifesto In Defense of Democracy and the Rule of Law in the Age of ‘Artificial Intelligence’, we, the Transatlantic… Continue Reading
AI Legal Protections May Not Save You From Getting Sued
Bloomberg – Microsoft, Adobe and OpenAI are all pledging to defend their customers against intellectual property lawsuits, but that guarantee doesn’t apply to everyone. “AI companies are pledging to defend their customers against intellectual property lawsuits. Those indemnities are narrower than the announcements suggest. But first: The fine print Last Monday, twelve minutes into his… Continue Reading
BCLP Arbitration Survey 2023 – AI in IA: The Rise of Machine Learning
BCLP Arbitration Survey 2023 AI in IA: The Rise of Machine Learning Nov 09, 2023. Download PDF. Read the full survey report – “For over ten years, BCLP’s International Arbitration Group has conducted surveys on issues affecting the arbitration process including cyber-security in arbitration proceedings (2019), rights of appeal (2020), party-appointed experts (2021) and the… Continue Reading
The Foundation Model Transparency Index
AI Snake Oil Blog: “Foundation models such as GPT-4 and Stable Diffusion 2 are the engines of generative AI. While the societal impact of foundation models is growing, transparency is on the decline, mirroring the opacity that has plagued past digital technologies like social media. How are these models trained and deployed? Once released, how… Continue Reading
ABA Profile of the Legal Profession
ABA – “The free, annual Profile of the Legal Profession report is a snapshot of a moment in time – a compilation of statistics and trends in 10 areas, including demographics, law schools, judges and legal technology. Bookmark this page and download the 2023 report when it’s released in the coming weeks.” Continue Reading
Virtual Cloud Portals
Dark Clouds: Can Government Agencies Evade Public-Records Laws by Storing Documents in Privately Owned Digital Portals? Frank D. LoMonte, Adjunct Instructor, University of Georgia School of Law. Newsroom Legal Counsel, Cable News Network, Inc. J.D., University of Georgia School of Law, 2000. B.A., Georgia State University, 1992. “Laws enabling the public to inspect government records… Continue Reading
ChatGPT is no longer as clueless about recent events
ZDNet: “ChatGPT users frustrated with the chatbot’s ignorance about recent events will now find it more informative and accommodating. At its first Dev Day conference for developers on Monday, ChatGPT creator OpenAI revealed that the knowledge cutoff dates for both GPT-3.5 and GPT-4.0 have been extended. For GPT-3.5, the cutoff date has been increased to… Continue Reading
The murky math of the New York Times bestsellers list
The Hustle: “Sy Montgomery spends money on three things: gas, groceries, and making the New York Times bestsellers list. For years, she and her husband have lived as freelance writers deep in the mountains of New Hampshire. They’ve eked out a living, she says, because they’re so frugal that even at 65 years old she… Continue Reading
Oil and Gas Companies Spill Millions of Gallons of Wastewater in Texas
“An exclusive Inside Climate News analysis found companies have spilled nearly 150 million gallons of toxic, highly saline wastewater in Texas over the last decade… Inside Climate News has conducted the first-ever public analysis of produced water spills in Texas, working from data provided in response to open records requests to the Railroad Commission. Over… Continue Reading
Open Planet Lets You Download & Use 4,500 Free Videos That Document Nature & Climate Change
Open Culture: “A melting glacier in Iceland…Trees scorched by a wildfire in AustraliaAs the effects of climate change become increasingly dire, we’ve grown accustomed to such grimly sobering visions.Some look away. Others work to heighten awareness of these clear and present environmental dangers. And some strive to implement innovative solutions before it’s too late: Solar… Continue Reading
Americans’ Trust in Scientists, Positive Views of Science Continue to Decline
“A new Pew Research Center survey finds the share of Americans who say science has had a mostly positive effect on society has fallen and there’s been a continued decline in public trust in scientists. In this report, we cover: Trust in scientists and other groups (Chapter 1) Views of the impact of science on… Continue Reading
