Day archives: March 19th, 2024

2023 IQAir World Air Quality Report

“The 6th Annual World Air Quality Report reveals troubling details of the world’s most polluted countries, territories, and regions in 2023. For this year’s report, data from more than 30,000 air quality monitoring stations across 7,812 locations in 134 countries, territories, and regions were analysed by IQAir’s air quality scientists. Key findings from the 2023 …

Subjects: Climate Change, Environmental Law

VLOGGER: Multimodal Diffusion for Embodied Avatar Synthesis

Google: “We propose VLOGGER, a method for text and audio-driven talking human video generation from a single input image of a person, which builds on the success of recent generative diffusion models. Our method consists of 1) a stochastic human-to-3d-motion diffusion model, and 2) a novel diffusion based architecture that augments text-to-image models with both …

Subjects: Internet, Legal Research, Search Engines, Social Media

Rethinking Privacy in the AI Era: Policy Provocations for a Data-Centric World

Rethinking Privacy in the AI Era: Policy Provocations for a Data-Centric World – Jennifer King, Caroline Meinhardt. “This White Paper. explores the current and future impact of privacy and data protection legislation on AI development and provides recommendations for mitigating privacy harms in an AI era. In this paper, we present a series of arguments …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Legislation

Counting Peak Bloom

Hannah Recht: “The beauty of D.C.’s cherry blossoms isn’t in the festival, the parade or the hordes of tourists who descend upon the National Mall. It’s in quietly strolling down a familiar path to the grocery store, suddenly seeing flowers emerge from branches that were barren for months. And more the next day, and the …

Subjects: Legal Research