One Useful Thing – Ethan Mollick: “AI Bing AI is a huge leap over ChatGPT, but you have to learn its quirks. Most people know about Bing AI from the chatbot’s well-reported week of doing weird and threatening things. I think that those stories focused people on the less-useful (though admittedly more scary) parts of… Continue Reading
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LLRX February 2023 Issue
8 New Articles and 4 New Columns for February 2023 – https://www/llrx.com The expanding role of technology in the law firm business model – The premise of this article by COO and legal technologist Kenneth Jones is that individual capabilities and excellence (either legal or technical) standing alone are not enough to ensure long-term, sustainable success.… Continue Reading
Power and Weirdness: How to Use Bing AI
One Useful Thing – Power and Weirdness: How to Use Bing AI – Bing AI is a huge leap over ChatGPT, but you have to learn its quirks. Most people know about Bing AI from the chatbot’s well-reported week of doing weird and threatening things. I think that those stories focused people on the less-useful… Continue Reading
Americans Can’t Consent to Companies Use of their Data
Americans Can’t Consent – Companies’ Use of Their Data – They Admit They Don’t Understand It, Say They’re Helpless to Control It, and Believe They’re Harmed When Firms Use Their Data —Making What Companies Do Illegitimate: A Report from the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania – “Overview – Consent has always been a… Continue Reading
The Vindication of Ask Jeeves
The Atlantic, The Vindication of Ask Jeeves: “Garrett Gruener, the co-creator of Ask Jeeves, couldn’t beat Google, but he’s feeling just fine about the dawn of the chatbot era. It was a simpler time. A friend introduced us, pulling up a static yellow webpage using a shaky dial-up modem. A man stood forth, dressed in… Continue Reading
Brave Search introduces the Summarizer, an AI tool for synthesized, relevant results
brave: “The Summarizer provides concise and to-the-point answers at the top of Brave Search results pages, in response to the user’s input, solely based on Web search results. Unlike a purely generative AI model, which is prone to spout unsubstantiated assertions, we trained our large language models (LLMs) to process multiple sources of information present… Continue Reading
A search engine built on the new ChatGPT API
What on earth? “A search engine built on the new ChatGPT API.” Built by naklecha Continue Reading
How to use ChatGPT for keyword research (with actual prompts)
Search Engine Land: “Learn specific keyword research applications for ChatGPT, plus a framework for incorporating the tool into your SEO processes. “If you’ve used ChatGPT for any period of time for tasks like creating content for SEO, you’ve likely noticed a few things: It’s great and a major time-saver for some tasks. It’s much worse… Continue Reading
Datasets at your fingertips in Google Search
Google Blog – Posted by Natasha Noy, Research Scientist, and Omar Benjelloun, Software Engineer, Google Research: “Access to datasets is critical to many of today’s endeavors across verticals and industries, whether scientific research, business analysis, or public policy. In the scientific community and throughout various levels of the public sector, reproducibility and transparency are essential… Continue Reading
Search engine manipulation to spread pro-Kremlin propaganda
Misinformation Review – Harvard Kennedy School – “The Kremlin’s use of bots and trolls to manipulate the recommendation algorithms of social media platforms is well-documented by many journalists and researchers. However pro-Kremlin manipulation of search engine algorithms has rarely been explored. We examine pro-Kremlin attempts to manipulate search engine results by comparing backlink and keyphrase… Continue Reading
AI-generated content detection tools put to the test
VentureBeat: “OpenAI’s Generative Pre-Trained Transformer (ChatGPT) has been the talk of the town since its launch in November 2022. The AI chatbot had more than a million users in just 4 days and surpassed 100 million active users in just two months — a milestone that took TikTok more than 9 months to reach. However,… Continue Reading
OpenAI Is Now Everything It Promised Not to Be
Vice – Corporate, Closed-Source, and For-Profit. OpenAI is today unrecognizable, “with multi-billion-dollar deals and corporate partnerships. Will it seek to own its shiny AI future? OpenAI is at the center of a chatbot arms race, with the public release of ChatGPT and a multi-billion-dollar Microsoft partnership spurring Google and Amazon to rush to implement AI… Continue Reading
