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‘Words Are Flowing Out Like Endless Rain Into a Paper Cup’: ChatGPT & Law School Assessments

Hargreaves, Stuart, ‘Words Are Flowing Out Like Endless Rain Into a Paper Cup’: ChatGPT & Law School Assessments (January 2023). The Chinese University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 2023-03, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4359407 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4359407 “ChatGPT is a sophisticated large-language model able to answer high-level questions in a way that is… Continue Reading

Archive of NIST Technical Reports Now Public

NIST has worked with The Internet Archive under an arrangement with the Library of Congress to digitize nearly 25,000 technical reports the agency has published over the last 100+ years. These archives showcase publications, historic photos, and museum artifacts from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Archives and the NIST Museum. As the… Continue Reading

If It’s Advertised to You Online, You Probably Shouldn’t Buy It. Here’s Why.

The New York Times: “…The ability to track people has turned out to be an unbeatable advantage for the online ad industry, which has grown to a $540 billion market worldwide, according to the media agency GroupM, dwarfing all other forms of advertising, including TV, radio and newspapers. It has propelled the massive growth of Google… Continue Reading

Top browsers for privacy (and why you should hide your online activity)

ZDNET: “Web browsers have become flooded with ad-sponsored content, making browsers a key battleground for end-user privacy. While Chrome is the most widely-used browser in the world, there are also alternative browsers and ways to improve your security, while staying anonymous online. Data is one of today’s key ingredients for generating revenue. Online advertising companies… Continue Reading

Will Wikipedia be written by AI? Founder Jimmy Wales is thinking about it

Evening Standard: “By now, even those of us who live under a rock have become familiar with ChatGPT, the AI-powered chatbot that can find us the answer to almost every question under the sun. It seems to be able to effortlessly write reports, compose letters or even poetry — for any subject it’s asked about,… Continue Reading

Publishers Worry A.I. Chatbots Will Cut Readership

The New York Times: “Many sites get at least half their traffic from search engines. Fuller results generated by new chatbots could mean far fewer visitors. The publishing industry has spent the past two decades struggling to adjust to the internet, as print circulation has plummeted and tech companies have gobbled up rivers of advertising… Continue Reading

How unbelievably realistic fake images could take over the internet

Vox: “..In just a few short years, AI-generated images have come a long way. In a more innocent time (2015) Google released “DeepDream,” which used Google’s artificial neural network programs — that is, artificial intelligence that’s been trained to learn in a way that mimics a human brain’s neural networks — to recognize patterns in… Continue Reading

The Nightmare of AI-Powered Gmail Has Arrived

New York Mag – The Intelligencer: “With the release of tools like DALL-E and ChatGPT, Google — once the presumptive industry leader in artificial-intelligence research — suddenly finds itself playing catch-up. The rise of OpenAI was reportedly a “code red” emergency at the company, which had quietly been working on, but not really releasing, similar… Continue Reading

AI chatbots compared: Bard vs. Bing vs. ChatGPT

The Verge: “The chatbots are out in force, but which is better and for what task? We’ve compared Google’s Bard, Microsoft’s Bing, and OpenAI’s ChatGPT models with a range of questions spanning common requests from holiday tips to gaming advice to mortgage calculations. Naturally, this is far from an exhaustive rundown of these systems’ capabilities… Continue Reading