Day archives: April 2nd, 2024

TrueMedia.org Launches a Free AI-enabled Deepfake Detector to Help Newsrooms

“TrueMedia.org, a non-partisan, non-profit organization committed to fighting AI-based disinformation, announces the launch of its deepfake detection technology for reporters, and other key audiences to use ahead of the 2024 U.S. elections.  The free tool is currently available to government officials, fact checkers, campaign staff, universities, non-profits, and reporters of accredited news organizations – from …

Subjects: AI, Congress, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Securities Law, Social Media

Give Your Ideas Some Legs: The Positive Effect of Walking on Creative Thinking

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition © 2014 American Psychological Association 2014, Vol. 40, No. 4, 1142–115 American Psychological Association – Give Your Ideas Some Legs: The Positive Effect of Walking on Creative Thinking. Marily Oppezzo and Daniel L. Schwartz, Stanford University. “Four experiments demonstrate that walking boosts creative ideation in real time …

Subjects: Health Care

Law Archive Open Scholarship Platform Launches at Yale Law School

“Yale Law Library in collaboration with the Center for Open Science has announced the launch of Law Archive, the only free open-access platform of its kind that integrates collaboration tools, data storage, and sharing of legal scholarship. Accessible to everyone, regardless of organizational affiliation or ability to pay, Law Archive contributes to the movement to …

Subjects: Education, Legal Research, Libraries, Search Engines

Parltrack – european initiative to improve the transparency of legislative processes

“Parltrack is a european initiative to improve the transparency of legislative processes. It combines information on dossiers, representatives, vote results and committee agendas into a unique database and allows the tracking of dossiers using email and RSS. Most of the data presented is also available for further processing in JSON format. Using Parltrack it’s easy …

Subjects: E-Mail, E-Records, Government Documents, Legal Research, RSS

The Economist’s glass-ceiling index

The Economist [unpaywalled – “Our annual measure of the role and influence of women in the workforce: Are working conditions getting any better for women? The Economist’s “glass-ceiling index” offers some clues. Each year, to mark International Women’s Day on March 8th, we crunch the numbers on ten indicators—from labour-force participation and salaries to paid …

Subjects: Economy, Financial System

Purpose-built AI builds better customer experiences

MIT Technology Review: “Successfully improving customer satisfaction through AI means becoming data-driven, prioritizing employee feedback and resources, and letting business goals guide technology deployment, says senior product marketing manager at NICE, Michele Carlson.In the bygone era of contact centers, the customer experience was tethered to a singular channel—the phone call. The journey began with a …

Subjects: AI, Knowledge Management, Marketing