Tech Policy Press: “The enthusiasm for generative AI systems has taken the world by storm. Organizations of all sorts– including businesses, governments, and nonprofit organizations– are excited about its applications, while regulators and policymakers show varying levels of desire to regulate and govern it. Old hands in the field of cybersecurity and governance, risk &… Continue Reading
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Environmental users abandoned Twitter after Musk takeover
Trends in Ecology, Environmental users abandoned Twitter after Musk takeover. Published: August 15, 2023. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2023.07.002 – “In our sample of 380,000 environmentally oriented users, nearly 50% became inactive on Twitter after it was sold in October 2022, a rate much higher than a control sample. Given Twitter’s importance for public communication, our finding has… Continue Reading
How to Customize Your Google News Feed
Tech Republic: “Add sources, locations and topics you want to track in Google News — and hide those you don’t want to display — for a reliable and free way to aggregate global news. As a news aggregator, Google News showcases stories from thousands of sources around the world. It provides an effective and free… Continue Reading
How To Prepare for Cyber Disclosures In a New Era of Transparency
Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance, Matt Gorham, Barbara Berlin, and Kevin Vaugh, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP: “The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) released its final rule on Cybersecurity Risk Management, Strategy, Governance, and Incident Disclosure on July 26, 2023. This gives your organization approximately five months to confirm your compliance plans before the new disclosure… Continue Reading
Open challenges in LLM research
Aug 16, 2023 – Chip Huyen – “Never before in my life had I seen so many smart people working on the same goal: making LLMs better. After talking to many people working in both industry and academia, I noticed the 10 major research directions that emerged. The first two directions, hallucinations and context learning,… Continue Reading
C-SPAN and Library of Congress Announce New Primetime Book Series for Fall 2023
Library of Congress: “C-SPAN and the Library of Congress today announced a joint original feature production for fall 2023: “Books That Shaped America.” The 10-part series – which C-SPAN will air LIVE on Mondays, starting Sept. 18 at 9 p.m. ET – will be a literary journey, tracing America’s history by exploring masterpieces in literature… Continue Reading
These apps and websites use your data to train AI
Los Angeles Times – You’re probably using one right now. “…What kind of info are we comfortable forking over to the AIs, if any? Right now we are in the midst of a destabilizing moment. It’s alarming, yes, but it’s also an opportunity to renegotiate what we do and do not want to hand over… Continue Reading
The 9 Best Alternatives to ChatGPT
MakeUseOf: “Since its public launch in November 2022, ChatGPT, the mesmerizing AI chatbot by OpenAI, has grown in popularity like wildfire. Social media feeds are filled with incredible things people do with the chatbot. Jobseekers, programmers, high school teachers, content creators, and professionals in almost every field are finding good uses for the tool. However,… Continue Reading
Use of AI Is Seeping Into Academic Journals and It’s Proving Difficult to Detect
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
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
Stop Trackers Dead: The Best Private Browsers for 2023
PCMag: “Online marketers mine your data and target you for sales. Foil their efforts with the tracking protection and privacy features offered by the top secure browsers we’ve tested. Online privacy is a major concern for everyone, and by far the biggest personal privacy issues arise when you browse the internet. Why? Because online marketers… Continue Reading
You can build your own AI chatbot with this drag-and-drop tool
ZDNET – We try out Botpress, a tool that helps you create powerful AI-based chatbots. “Botpress is a tool for building interactive chatbots. While it supports building chatbots for a wide range of applications, the killer app is using it to build a customer support chatbot and backing it up with AI smarts. At its… Continue Reading
