The Economist [free link] – “Turn your thoughts to the humble tractor. No one quite knows who invented it or when, but all agree that it took a surprisingly long time for such a productivity-enhancing device to make a mark. As late as the 1950s, less than half of American farms reported having the things.… Continue Reading
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Why Gen Z is flocking from Twitter to LinkedIn
Fast Company: ““The bird is freed,” tweeted Elon Musk on October 27, 2022. But these days, the bird is not flying high with Gen Z. The recent Twitter acquisition has led to an exodus of Gen Z users flocking to other social media platforms—even to professional ecosystems like LinkedIn. I know because I’m a member… Continue Reading
AI Content Detector – ChatGPT Plagiarism Checker
“ContentDetector.AI checks any written text material that is AI generated, including Chat GPT, GPT 3, and GPT 4 written content, and delivers an estimated percentage score based on the likelihood that the text content was generated by AI tools or software. In addition to that, it can count words and is completely free to use.… Continue Reading
Listen to Wikipedia
“Listen to the sound of Wikipedia’s recent changes feed. Bells indicate additions and string plucks indicate subtractions. Pitch changes according to the size of the edit; the larger the edit, the deeper the note. Green circles show edits from unregistered contributors, and purple circles mark edits performed by automated bots. You may see announcements for… Continue Reading
Data scientists predict stock returns with AI and online news
Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science – “For years, the financial press has helped inform investors of all stripes. Cornell researchers have discovered it can also inform the algorithm behind a new financial predicting model. In their paper, “News-Based Sparse Machine Learning Models for Adaptive Asset Pricing,” published in Data Science… Continue Reading
Crawlers, search engines and the sleaze of generative AI companies
Search Engine Land: “…LLMs are not search engines It should now be very clear that an LLM is a different beast from a search engine. A language model’s response does not directly point back to the website(s) whose content was used to train the model. There is no economic exchange like we see with search… Continue Reading
Why parents are trying to ban so many picture books
Children’s picture books are the next targets for book bans [free link] – The Washington Post – “The Post requested and analyzed roughly 2,500 pages of book challenges filed in more than 100 districts nationwide throughout the 2021-2022 academic year. Picture books made up nearly 10 percent of all the titles challenged in the 1,000-plus… Continue Reading
How to Delete a Page in a Word Document in 4 Ways
Tech Republic: “In Microsoft Word documents, unwanted pages — usually blank pages — are a common mishap. When entering content from the keyboard, pressing Ctrl + Enter or Command + Return is the manual method for forcing a new page. While I recommend you not use that method, most Word documents have a few hard… Continue Reading
Search AI Models
AllModels.fyi: “Search [over 30,000 entries], filter, and sort AI models. Find the right one for your AI project. Subscribe for a monthly update of new models.” Continue Reading
FTC is investigating whether ChatGPT harms consumers
Washington Post [read free]: “The Federal Trade Commission has opened an expansive investigation into OpenAI, probing whether the maker of the popular ChatGPT bot has run afoul of consumer protection laws by putting personal reputations and data at risk.The agency this week sent the San Francisco company a 20-page demand for records about how it… Continue Reading
An AI Primer for Legal Professionals
“How will new AI technologies shape the future of law? And how can legal professionals ensure that they adhere to legal ethics while they benefit from new technologies? In part I of our new series, Filevine’s legal futurists Dr. Cain Elliott and Dr. Megan Ma, along with Senior Director of Product Alex McLaughlin, help lawyers… Continue Reading
Build, Access, Analyze: Introducing ARCH
Internet Archive Blogs: “We are excited to announce the public availability of ARCH (Archives Research Compute Hub), a new research and education service that helps users easily build, access, and analyze digital collections computationally at scale. ARCH represents a combination of the Internet Archive’s experience supporting computational research for more than a decade by providing… Continue Reading
