Stephen Wolfram (March 2023), “ChatGPT Gets Its ‘Wolfram Superpowers’: Early in January I wrote about the possibility of connecting ChatGPT to Wolfram|Alpha. And today—just two and a half months later—I’m excited to announce that it’s happened! Thanks to some heroic software engineering by our team and by OpenAI, ChatGPT can now call on Wolfram|Alpha—and Wolfram… Continue Reading
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Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, April 15, 2023
Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, April 15, 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
4 Maps updates to help you explore U.S. national parks
Google Blog: “After visiting 24 of the 63 U.S. national parks, I know how rewarding it can be to explore the outdoors — whether it’s getting out into nature with my kids or soaking up stunning views on long hikes with friends. After all these trips, I’m also all too familiar with some of the… Continue Reading
Mastering ChatGPT: How to Craft Effective Prompts (Full Guide)
gptbot.com: “Welcome to the fascinating world of artificial intelligence and natural language processing. As you might already know, ChatGPT, powered by OpenAI’s GPT-3 and GPT-4 architectures, has become one of the most versatile and powerful AI language models. It can generate human-like text responses, answer questions, create content, and even engage in conversation. However, to… Continue Reading
Does ChatGPT Have Privacy Issues?
MakeUseOf: “ChatGPT’s privacy policy tells us almost everything we need to know about its data retention habits. It gathers its information from three sources: Account information that you enter when you sign up or pay for a premium plan. Information that you type into the chatbot itself. Identifying data it pulls from your device or… Continue Reading
Firefox rolls out Total Cookie Protection by default to more users worldwide
Mozilla Blog: “Take back your privacy – Firefox is rolling out Total Cookie Protection by default to more Firefox users worldwide, making Firefox the most private and secure major browser available across Windows, Mac, Linux and Android. Total Cookie Protection is Firefox’s strongest privacy protection to date, confining cookies to the site where they were… Continue Reading
Find Popular Wikipedia Pages on Specific Dates and Explore Why They’re Popular: WikiPopPulse
ResearchBuzz Search Gizmos: “Get the 100 most popular Wikipedia pages for a given date and sort them by type (human, film, video game, etc.) Searches must be 2016 or later.” Continue Reading
The Google graveyard: all the products Google has shut down
The Verge: “Google releases a lot of products, but it shuts down a lot of them, too. Some didn’t deserve to be discontinued (we pine for the days of Reader and Inbox), and some probably weren’t long for this world from the start. (What was Google Wave supposed to be, anyway?) The company actually used… Continue Reading
AI Now 2023 Landscape Report
AI Now Institute – Confronting Tech Power Report [103 pages PDF]: “This report highlights a set of approaches that, in concert, will collectively enable us to confront tech power. Some of these are bold policy reforms that underscore the need for bright-line rules and structural curbs. Others identify popular policy responses that, because they fail… Continue Reading
An Initial Scholarly AI Taxonomy
An Initial Scholarly AI Taxonomy – Adam Hyde, John Chodacki and Paul Shannon. April 11, 2023. https://doi.org/10.54900/6p6re-xyj61 “Scholarly AI Taxonomy – To kickstart discussions on AI’s potential impact on publishing workflows, we present our initial categorization of the “Scholarly AI Taxonomy.” This taxonomy outlines seven key roles that AI could potentially play in a scholarly… Continue Reading
Restraining ChatGPT
Pearce, Russell G. and Lochan, Hema, Legal Education and Technology: The Potential to Democratize Legal Knowledge and Power (March 13, 2023). Latin American Law Review n.º 10 (2023): 63-79, Fordham Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 4387616, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4387616 “The current technological transformation of legal education, including computer-based, interactive, and online modes of… Continue Reading
You Are Not a Parrot. And a chatbot is not a human.
New York Magazine – The Intelligencer: “And a linguist named Emily M. Bender is very worried what will happen when we forget this…A handful of companies control what PricewaterhouseCoopers called a “$15.7 trillion game changer of an industry.” Those companies employ or finance the work of a huge chunk of the academics who understand how… Continue Reading
