Rowan Philp, GIJN senior reporter: “…In a recent article for the Columbia Journalism Review, Schellmann, Kapoor, and Dallas Morning News reporter Ari Sen explained that AI “machine learning” systems are neither sentient nor independent. Instead, these systems differ from past computer models because, rather than following a set of digital rules, they can “recognize patterns… Continue Reading
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Artificial intelligence, job quality and inclusiveness
OECD Employment Outlook 2023: Artificial Intelligence and the Labour Market – Artificial intelligence, job quality and inclusiveness. Andrew Green Angelica Salvi del Pero Annelore Verhagen. OECD e-library. “For many workers, the effects of artificial intelligence (AI) will be visible not in terms of lost employment but through changes in the tasks they perform at work… Continue Reading
When putting AI to work, remember: It’s just a talented intern
Beta News: “Artificial intelligence (AI) models have been generating a lot of buzz as valuable tools for everything from cutting costs and improving revenues to how they can play an essential role in unified observability. But for as much value as AI brings to the table, it’s important to remember that AI is the intern… Continue Reading
Digital Overload – To scholars, Web 2.0 has vastly complicated the production of biography and life writing
JSTOR Daily: How can contemporary biographers contend with the explosion of materials at their disposal? “It may be that the digital revolution has had a more profound effect on biography and life writing than on any other branch of literature, perhaps any branch of the arts,” writes the scholar Paul Longley Arthur. The developments of… Continue Reading
Study of Elite College Admissions Data Suggests Being Very Rich Is Its Own Qualification
The New York Times [free link]: “Elite colleges have long been filled with the children of the richest families: At Ivy League schools, one in six students has parents in the top 1 percent. A large new study, released Monday, shows that it has not been because these children had more impressive grades on average… Continue Reading
Why Generative AI Won’t Disrupt Books
Wired – free link: “Every new technology from the internet to virtual reality has tried to upend book culture. There’s a reason they’ve all failed—and always will…The tech world has long been convinced that it understands the desires of readers better than they do themselves. For years, VCs have promised to upend books and the… Continue Reading
Take a High Def, Guided Tour of Pompeii
Open Culture: “If you want to understand ancient Rome, its architecture, its history, the sprawl of the Roman Empire, you’ve got to go Rome.” So says archaeologist Darius Arya in the video above, making a fair, if obvious, point. “But you also have to go to the Vesuvian cities”: that is, the settlements located near… Continue Reading
Digital Public Library of America Launches The Banned Book Club to Ensure Access to Banned Books
PR Newswire: “The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) has launched The Banned Book Club to ensure that readers in communities affected by book bans can now access banned books for free via the Palace e-reader app. The Banned Book Club makes e-book versions of banned books available to readers in locations across the United States where… Continue Reading
What We Teach When We Teach Legal Analysis
McMahon, Susan, What We Teach When We Teach Legal Analysis (June 28, 2023). Minnesota Law Review, Vol. 107, No. 2511, 2023, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4494293 “Traditional legal education, especially in the first year, often leaves students with the impression that law is neutral and objective, and their job, as lawyers, is to read cases, pull… Continue Reading
The 2023 SCOTUS Awards
The New York Times Opinion – “The headlines that emerged from the 2022-23 term of the Supreme Court conveyed the brutal impact of several big decisions, but they sometimes missed the human elements that made these opinions so startling — how the conservative majority favored one oppressed group but not another or imposed conflicting rules… Continue Reading
Wikipedia’s Moment of Truth
The New York Times [free to read]: “Can the online encyclopedia help teach A.I. chatbots to get their facts right — without destroying itself in the process?…The new A.I. chatbots have typically swallowed Wikipedia’s corpus, too. Embedded deep within their responses to queries is Wikipedia data and Wikipedia text, knowledge that has been compiled over… Continue Reading
GPTs are GPTs: An Early Look at the Labor Market Impact Potential of Large Language Models
WORKING PAPER – GPTs are GPTs: An Early Look at the Labor Market Impact Potential of Large Language Models. Tyna Eloundou, Sam Manning, Pamela Mishkin, and Daniel Rock. OpenAI, OpenResearch. University of Pennsylvania. March 27, 2023. “We investigate the potential implications of large language models (LLMs), such as Generative Pre-trained Transformers (GPTs), on the U.S.… Continue Reading
