Digital Trends: “Grammarly, one of the biggest names in writing tools, is adding AI-generated text to its repertoire on the heels of the wild popularity of ChatGPT. Known as GrammarlyGO, this new tool is focused on improving writing rather than replacing the writer. GrammarlyGO will roll out in beta form to existing users in April.… Continue Reading
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How you could build a search that the fediverse would welcome
Anil Dash: “Mastodon and the fediverse are clearly taking off, bringing in millions of new users, and also organically inspiring a wave of technical innovation that dwarfs all of the efforts that the bribes and empty promises of the Web3 crypto bubble couldn’t touch. I’m even enjoying having settled into a relatively permanent new fediverse… Continue Reading
Beware of Book Blurbs
The Million: “Blurb is a funny sounding word. It’s phonetically unappealing, beginning and ending with unattractive voiced bilabial stops, and its definition—an advertisement or announcement, especially a laudatory one—carries some of the same meaning as another unattractive word, blubber, which evokes excess in its dual definition as both an expostulation of unrestrained emotion as well… Continue Reading
Explore the world’s searches with the new Google Trends
Google Blog: “With spring cleaning trends on our minds, we’ve refreshed the Search Trends site, making it easier to explore what’s trending around you and across the world.. You can now explore real-time trends right on the home page. These are updated every hour and are accompanied by links to relevant news articles, so you… Continue Reading
Inside the Suspicion Machine
Wired: “Obscure government algorithms are making life-changing decisions about millions of people around the world. Here, for the first time, we reveal how one of these systems works…Machine learning algorithms like Rotterdam’s are being used to make more and more decisions about people’s lives, including what schools their children attend, who gets interviewed for jobs,… Continue Reading
5 Best Free Realistic Text-to-Speech Tools
Hongkiat: “The web is brimming with text-to-speech tools, but most of the good ones (with realistic/ natural speech) aren’t free. Nevertheless, we’ve stumbled upon some tools that are free and offer high-quality output. Following is a list of some of the best free text-to-speech tools with a brief description and their respective pros and cons.” Continue Reading
DuckDuckGo Releases Its Own ChatGPT-Powered Search Engine, DuckAssist
Gizmodo: “DuckDuckGo launched a beta version of an AI search tool powered by ChatGPT Wednesday called DuckAssist. The addition to the company’s privacy-focused search engine uses ChatGPT’s language parsing capability to generate answers scraped from Wikipedia and related sources like the Encyclopedia Britannica. The tool is free and available on the DuckDuckGo web browsing apps… Continue Reading
Talk to Wikipedia using chatGPT
“wikipediaGPT allows you to talk to version of chatGPT that has access all of Wikipedia! It’s actually based on “Simple English Wikipedia” with some limitations due to financial constraits. If you’d like to help extend this to ALL of Wikipedia get in touch! Unline chatGPT this website can’t make stuff up and will only answer… Continue Reading
A Four-Day Workweek Reduces Stress without Hurting Productivity
Scientific American: “Working four days instead of five—with the same pay—leads to improved well-being among employees without damaging the company’s productivity. That’s the recently reported result of a four-day workweek test that ran for six months, from June to December 2022, and involved a total of 61 U.K. companies with a combined workforce of about… Continue Reading
The CEPS EurLex dataset
The CEPS EurLex dataset: “142.036 EU laws from 1952-2019 with full text and 22 variables: The dataset contains 142.036 EU laws – almost the entire corpus of the EU’s digitally available legal acts passed between 1952 – 2019. It encompasses the three types of legally binding acts passed by the EU institutions: 102.304 regulations, 4.070… Continue Reading
The Open Contracting Data Standard
“The Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS), is a free, non-proprietary open data standard for public contracting, implemented by over 30 governments around the world. It is the only international open standard for the publication of information related to the planning, procurement, and implementation of public contracts and has been endorsed by the G20, the G7… Continue Reading
Google’s Plan to Catch ChatGPT Is to Stuff AI Into Everything
Bloomberg: “A new internal directive requires “generative artificial intelligence” to be incorporated into all of its biggest products within months. Artificial intelligence was supposed to be Google’s thing. The company has cultivated a reputation for making long-term bets on all kinds of far-off technologies, and much of the research underpinning the current wave of AI-powered… Continue Reading
