Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, March 4, 2023 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly… Continue Reading
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Americans Can’t Consent to Companies Use of their Data
Americans Can’t Consent – Companies’ Use of Their Data – They Admit They Don’t Understand It, Say They’re Helpless to Control It, and Believe They’re Harmed When Firms Use Their Data —Making What Companies Do Illegitimate: A Report from the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania – “Overview – Consent has always been a… Continue Reading
Chat with any PDF
Chat with any PDF – “A chatting PDF? Why? This is the age of the AI revolution! Intelligence will be free and ubiquitous soon, restructuring our society and enabling new possibilities of interaction. With ChatPDF, your documents are becoming intelligent! Just talk to your PDF file as if it were a human with perfect understanding… Continue Reading
The Vindication of Ask Jeeves
The Atlantic, The Vindication of Ask Jeeves: “Garrett Gruener, the co-creator of Ask Jeeves, couldn’t beat Google, but he’s feeling just fine about the dawn of the chatbot era. It was a simpler time. A friend introduced us, pulling up a static yellow webpage using a shaky dial-up modem. A man stood forth, dressed in… Continue Reading
Students can quote ChatGPT in essays as long as they do not pass the work off as their own
Business Insider: “Students taking the International Baccalaureate (IB) will be allowed to use ChatGPT so long as they don’t try to pass the work off as their own. Matt Glanville, head of assessment principles and practice at the IB, a qualification body that’s popular in Europe, told The Times of London that students would be… Continue Reading
Uncommon Carriage
Reid, Blake Ellis, Uncommon Carriage (February 21, 2023). Stanford Law Review, Vol. 76, 2024 (forthcoming), U of Colorado Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 22-20, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4181948 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4181948 “As states have started to regulate the carriage of speech by “Big Tech” Internet platforms, scholars, advocates, and policymakers have increasingly focused their attention… Continue Reading
Brave Search introduces the Summarizer, an AI tool for synthesized, relevant results
brave: “The Summarizer provides concise and to-the-point answers at the top of Brave Search results pages, in response to the user’s input, solely based on Web search results. Unlike a purely generative AI model, which is prone to spout unsubstantiated assertions, we trained our large language models (LLMs) to process multiple sources of information present… Continue Reading
Mechanisms and Impacts of Earth System Tipping Elements
Reviews of Geophysics, Volume 61, Issue 1. March 2023. Mechanisms and Impacts of Earth System Tipping Elements. Seaver Wang, Adrianna Foster, Elizabeth A. Lenz, John D. Kessler, Julienne C. Stroeve, Liana O. Anderson, Merritt Turetsky, Richard Betts, Sijia Zou, Wei Liu, William R. Boos, Zeke Hausfather. First published: 15 February 2023. [$ to read the… Continue Reading
Forecasting potential misuses of language models for disinformation campaigns and how to reduce risk
“OpenAI researchers collaborated with Georgetown University’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology and the Stanford Internet Observatory to investigate how large language models might be misused for disinformation purposes. The collaboration included an October 2021 workshop bringing together 30 disinformation researchers, machine learning experts, and policy analysts, and culminated in a co-authored report building on… Continue Reading
A search engine built on the new ChatGPT API
What on earth? “A search engine built on the new ChatGPT API.” Built by naklecha Continue Reading
Microsoft unveils AI model that understands image content, solves visual puzzles
Ars Technica: “On [February 27, 2023], researchers from Microsoft introduced Kosmos-1, a multimodal model that can reportedly analyze images for content, solve visual puzzles, perform visual text recognition, pass visual IQ tests, and understand natural language instructions. The researchers believe multimodal AI—which integrates different modes of input such as text, audio, images, and video—is a… Continue Reading
ASPI’s Critical Technology Tracker – The global race for future power
“The Critical Technology Tracker is a large project that spans this report and a website. We encourage readers of the report to explore https://techtracker.aspi.org.au/ as the website contains an enormous amount of original data and analysis. We have also created a range of visual snapshots including one that outlines the lead country and technology monopoly… Continue Reading
