Wired: “The rapid rise of generative AI has stoked anxieties across disciplines. High school teachers and college professors are worried about the potential for cheating. News organizations have been caught with shoddy articles penned by AI. And now, peer-reviewed academic journals are grappling with submissions in which the authors may have used generative AI to… Continue Reading
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Notes for a New Legal Research Pedagogy
Mignanelli, Nicholas, Notes for a New Legal Research Pedagogy (July 7, 2023). 43 North Illinois University Law Review (Forthcoming), Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4503396 “Do societal power structures shape the organization of legal information? Do they embed biases in legal research tools? If so, how can the insights of critical legal theory assist us in contending… Continue Reading
Learn as you search and browse using generative AI
Google Blog: “Today, we’re sharing a few more upgrades to SGE to help you better learn and make sense of information on the web: whether it’s deepening your understanding of complicated concepts, boosting your coding skills or tracking down details within a complex topic. See definitions within AI-generated responses – When you’re researching something new,… Continue Reading
New Accidental Government Information Librarian Webinar
The next Help! I’m an Accidental Government Information Librarian webinar is scheduled for August 29, 2023 from 2:00-3:00pm (Eastern). This session, Tips for Navigating Spatial Data Resources, is hosted by Kevin Dyke – the Maps and Spatial Data Curator at Edmon Low Library. Register here: https://ala-events.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_TB6XPsRGQR6pm3jDPjULvQ#/registration Continue Reading
How to Use Large Language Models for Empirical Legal Research
Choi, Jonathan H., How to Use Large Language Models for Empirical Legal Research (August 9, 2023). Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (Forthcoming), Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4536852 – “Legal scholars have long annotated cases by hand to summarize and learn about developments in jurisprudence. Dramatic recent improvements in the performance of large language models (LLMs)… Continue Reading
Drought Center
“We’re the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The National Drought Mitigation Center’s mission is to reduce the effects of drought on people, the environment and the economy by researching the science of drought monitoring and the practice of drought planning. We collaborate with and learn from decision-makers at all levels –… Continue Reading
An Iowa school district is using AI to ban books
“It certainly didn’t take long for AI’s other shoe to drop, what with the emergent technology already being perverted to commit confidence scams and generate spam content. We can now add censorship to that list as the Globe Gazette reports the school board of Mason City, Iowa has begun leveraging AI technology to cultivate lists… Continue Reading
Advancing global NWP through international collaboration
“ECMWF is the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts. We are both a research institute and a 24/7 operational service, producing global numerical weather predictions and other data for our Member and Co-operating States and the broader community. The Centre has one of the largest supercomputer facilities and meteorological data archives in the world. Other… Continue Reading
Google Slides’ new tool lets you annotate your presentations
engadget: “Google has introduced a new tool for Slides that can help you make your presentations more interactive and keep your audience’s attention. The new feature, a pen tool, lets you write on a slide in real time, so you can encircle key figures, draw arrows, underline important information and just generally scribble anything you… Continue Reading
Colleges Spend Like There’s No Tomorrow. ‘These Places Are Just Devouring Money.’
WSJ (free to read): “The nation’s best-known public universities have been on an unfettered spending spree. Over the past two decades, they erected new skylines comprising snazzy academic buildings and dorms. They poured money into big-time sports programs and hired layers of administrators. Then they passed the bill along to students. The University of Kentucky… Continue Reading
AI in Education
Education Next [This is an extensive well documented guide – includes a section on The Importance of Well-Designed Prompts] – The leap into a new era of machine intelligence carries risks and challenges, but also plenty of promise. Over the last year, developers have released a dizzying array of AI tools that can generate text,… Continue Reading
Google Free courses: IoT; Machine Learning; Data Science; Computer Science
1. Introduction to Generative AI https://lnkd.in/eXp8h7dY 2. Introduction to Large Language Models https://lnkd.in/eK7qQcJY 3. Introduction to Responsible AI https://lnkd.in/e-aX58Ky 4. Introduction to Image Generation https://lnkd.in/ewM_aXam 5. Encoder-Decoder Architecture https://lnkd.in/e3ZGHSfz 6. Attention Mechanism https://lnkd.in/ea9crZiR 7. Transformer Models and BERT Model https://lnkd.in/eM5Dhi4N 8. Create Image Captioning Models https://lnkd.in/eeBEJx_n 9. Introduction to Generative AI Studio https://lnkd.in/eGn8NUCD 10. Machine… Continue Reading
