The Verge: “Microsoft’s Bing chatbot has been unleashed on the world, and people are discovering what it means to beta test an unpredictable AI tool. Specifically, they’re finding out that Bing’s AI personality is not as poised or polished as you might expect. In conversations with the chatbot shared on Reddit and Twitter, Bing can… Continue Reading
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American Views 2022: Part 2, Trust Media And Democracy
“As part of Knight Foundation’s belief that a strong Fourth Estate is paramount to a thriving democracy, the organization has worked with Gallup to study Americans’ trust in the news media, consistently finding that their level of confidence is driven by perceptions of news organizations’ accuracy, bias and transparency. However, a new report finds that… Continue Reading
AI-powered Bing Chat loses its mind when fed Ars Technica article
Ars Technica: “Over the past few days, early testers of the new Bing AI-powered chat assistant have discovered ways to push the bot to its limits with adversarial prompts, often resulting in Bing Chat appearing frustrated, sad, and questioning its existence. It has argued with users and even seemed upset that people know its secret internal… Continue Reading
ChatGPT: What It Is And Why It Matters To Lawyers
Via LLRX – ChatGPT: What It Is And Why It Matters To Lawyers – Attorney and legal technologist Nicole L. Black cautions user that ChatGPT is a great start, but that’s all it is. No matter what you’re using ChatGPT for, whether for personal or professional reasons, you’ll need to have a full understanding of the topic at… Continue Reading
The Efficacy of ChatGPT: Is it Time for the Librarians to Go Home?
Via LLRX – The Efficacy of ChatGPT: Is it Time for the Librarians to Go Home? In preparation for a presentation about race and academic libraries, Curtis Kendrick, formerly Dean and currently Binghamton University Libraries Faculty and Staff mentor, tried ChatGPT (Jan 9 version) to see what it (they?) had to say. He was curious… Continue Reading
TNI’s State of Power report: Who has digital power today?
TNI – Let’s start with a big open question that is at the heart of TNI’s: Who has digital power today? – Interview with Cory Doctorow – “Cory Doctorow is a prolific writer and a brilliant science fiction novelist, journalist and technology activist. He is a special consultant to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff.org (external… Continue Reading
Why Does AI Lie, and What Can We Do About It?
YouTube: “How do we make sure language models tell the truth?” Explaining AI Alignment to anyone who’ll stand still for long enough, on YouTube and Discord. His YouTube channel: AI Safety Talks! https://youtube.com/@aisafetytalks. It hosts high quality talks from AI Alignment researchers, giving a bit more depth and technical detail than my videos. “While Robert… Continue Reading
New Recommended Practice, Video & Audio Metadata Guidelines
Video & Audio Metadata Guidelines Working Group. NISO RP-41-2023, Video & Audio Metadata Guidelines, now Published! “The new Recommended Practice, NISO RP-41-2023, Video & Audio Metadata Guidelines, was approved February 10 and published February 13, 2023. Comments received during the public comment period in 2022 remain available. Background Information: In today’s academic, research and professional information… Continue Reading
Why you shouldn’t trust AI search engines
MIT Technology Review: “…Approximately two seconds after Microsoft let people poke around with its new ChatGPT-powered Bing search engine, people started finding that it responded to some questions with incorrect or nonsensical answers, such as conspiracy theories. Google had an embarrassing moment when scientists spotted a factual error in the company’s own advertisement for its chatbot Bard,… Continue Reading
The First Interactive Map with AI-Detected Fields and Crops
OneSoil:” Compare ratings for more than half the world. Get insights about local and global trends in crop production. For farmers, advisers, dealers, students and just curious people…First launched in 2018, the updated OneSoil Map allows you to explore fields and crops in more than half the world for 2020. Anyone can get global agricultural… Continue Reading
The State of Open Humanitarian Data 2023
A report by the UN’s Humanitarian Data Exchange. “This report was produced in February 2023 by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Centre for Humanitarian Data, which manages the Humanitarian Data Exchange (HDX) platform…In our fourth year of producing The State of Open Humanitarian Data, we can report the highest… Continue Reading
A Love Letter to Libraries, Long Overdue
The New York Times: “The New York Times sent photographers to seven states to document the thrum and buzz in buildings once known for silence…The New York Times sent photographers to seven states to document the thrum and buzz in buildings once known for silence… We all know that books connect us, that language has… Continue Reading
