Via LLRX – AI in Finance and Banking, July 31, 2024 – This semi-monthly column by Sabrina I. Pacifici highlights news, government documents, NGO/IGO papers, industry white papers, academic papers and speeches on the subject of AI’s fast paced impact on the banking and finance sectors. The chronological links provided are to the primary sources, and… Continue Reading
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Can ChatGPT-4o Be Trusted With Your Private Data?
Wired – OpenAI’s newest model is “a data hoover on steroids,” says one expert—but there are still ways to use it while minimizing risk. [unpaywalled]: “…On the face of it, OpenAI’s privacy policy does show a large amount of data collection, including personal information, usage data, and content provided when you use it. ChatGPT uses… Continue Reading
A CIO canceled a Microsoft AI deal
Business Insider – The reason should worry the entire tech industry. [unpaywalled] “AI models and tools look great when researchers measure success with their own wonky benchmarks. When paying customers try this technology in the real world, things can get ugly. That’s what happened when an IT executive at a pharmaceutical company tried out Microsoft’s… Continue Reading
Country Overshoot Days 2024
Country Overshoot Day Calendar & Calculations – “A country’s overshoot day is the date on which Earth Overshoot Day would fall if all of humanity consumed like the people in that country. Country overshoot days are published on January 1st of each year, using the latest year of the most recent National Footprint and Biocapacity… Continue Reading
Access to Justice as Access to Data
Rostain, Tanina, Access to Justice as Access to Data (July 25, 2024). Forthcoming in the Northwestern Law Review, Volume 119, 2024., Georgetown University Law Center Research Paper Forthcoming, (2024). Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works. 2619., Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4905900 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4905900 This Keynote Address, delivered in celebration of the launch of SCALES, discusses… Continue Reading
Dementia prevention, intervention, and care: 2024 report of the Lancet standing Commission
“The 2024 update of the Lancet Commission on dementia provides new hopeful evidence about dementia prevention, intervention, and care. As people live longer, the number of people who live with dementia continues to rise, even as the age-specific incidence decreases in high-income countries, emphasising the need to identify and implement prevention approaches. We have summarised… Continue Reading
DOE Public Database Featuring Intellectual Property from DOE National Labs and Sites
“Thousands of the treasures developed by scientists working for the Department of Energy—ideas, methods and software created to address some of the world’s biggest challenges—are now available in one place for entrepreneurs, researchers and others interested in learning more and developing them for commercialization. DOE’s Office of Technology Transitions (OTT) has created the Visual Intellectual… Continue Reading
OpenStreetMap provides map data for thousands of websites, mobile apps, and hardware devices
OpenStreetMap is built by a community of mappers that contribute and maintain data about roads, trails, cafés, railway stations, and much more, all over the world. OpenStreetMap emphasizes local knowledge. Contributors use aerial imagery, GPS devices, and low-tech field maps to verify that OSM is accurate and up to date. OpenStreetMap’s community is diverse, passionate,… Continue Reading
An open copyright casebook, featuring AI, Warhol and more
Pluralistic: “Few debates invite more uninformed commentary than “IP” – a loosely defined grab bag that regulates an ever-expaning sphere of our daily activities, despite the fact that almost no one, including senior executives in the entertainment industry, understands how it works. Take reading a book. If the book arrives between two covers in the… Continue Reading
The AI Search War Has Begun
Follow up to Perplexity is cutting checks to publishers following plagiarism accusations See also The Atlantic [unpaywalled] – And tech companies might not be the winners. “Every second of every day, people across the world type tens of thousands of queries into Google, adding up to trillions of searches a year. Google and a few… Continue Reading
Climate change indicators
Climate Change Indicators: Zachary Labe – “I’m a Climate Scientist (Atmospheric) at NOAA GFDL | PhD | trying to visualize the signal from a lot of noise. Broadly, I am interested in a signal-to-noise problem. The signal is climate change. The noise is weather. My research intends to disentangle the two components to improve our… Continue Reading
Why Paper Checks Refuse to Die
The New York Times [unpaywalled] – “It’s hard to avoid hassle — or fraud — when you’re required to pay with paper and ink. Here’s why checks persist and why some people don’t mind…But if you haven’t used a check in years and consider it a badge of honor, that may say a lot about… Continue Reading
