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TechCrunch: “ChatGPT, OpenAI’s text-generating AI chatbot, has taken the world by storm. What started as a tool to hyper-charge productivity through writing essays and code with short text prompts has evolved into a behemoth used by more than 92% of Fortune 500 companies for more wide-ranging needs. And that growth has propelled OpenAI itself into …
The New York Times: [read free] “…Content from at least 30 channels in the network drew nearly 120 million views and 730,000 subscribers since last year, along with occasional ads from Western companies, the report found. Some of the videos featured titles and scripts that seemed to be direct translations of common Chinese phrases and …
Issues in Science and Technology – Per Pete Weiss, they host a section on AI and Machine Learning which now has several dozen articles.” Issues in Science and Technology is a quarterly journal published by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and Arizona State University. The journal is a forum for discussion of …
Via LLRX – AI in Finance and Banking January 15, 2024 – This semi-monthly column by Sabrina I. Pacifici highlights news, government documents, NGO/IGO papers, academic papers and speeches on the subject of AI’s fast paced impact on the banking and finance sectors. The chronological links provided are to the primary sources, and as available, …
Large Legal Fictions: Profiling Legal Hallucinations in Large Language Models. Matthew Dahl, Varun Magesh, Mirac Suzgun, Daniel E. Ho, 2 Jan 2024. “Large language models (LLMs) have the potential to transform the practice of law, but this potential is threatened by the presence of legal hallucinations — responses from these models that are not consistent …
IBM Global AI Adoption Index – “Data Suggests Growth in Enterprise Adoption of AI is Due to Widespread Deployment by Early Adopters, But Barriers Keep 40% in the Exploration and Experimentation Phases About 42% of enterprise-scale companies surveyed (> 1,000 employees) report having actively deployed AI in their business. An additional 40% are currently exploring …
Bliss, John, Teaching Law in the Age of Generative AI (January 2, 2024). Jurimetrics (forthcoming), Available at SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4682456 “With the rise of large language models capable of passing law school exams and the Unified Bar Exam, how should legal educators prepare their students for an age of transformative AI advances? Text-generating AI is poised …
Conklin, Michael, Is AI Friend or Foe: Legal Implications of Rapid Artificial Intelligence Adoption (April 25, 2023). Michael Conklin, Is AI Friend or Foe: Legal Implications of Rapid Artificial Intelligence Adoption, 26 ATLANTIC L.J. ___ (forthcoming 2023). , Available at SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4429539 “The term “artificial intelligence” (hereinafter “AI”) was coined in the 1950s and has …
Telegraph: “The maker of ChatGPT has warned that a ban on using news and books to train chatbots would doom the development of artificial intelligence. OpenAI has told peers that it would be “impossible” to create services such as ChatGPT if it were prevented from relying on copyrighted works, as it seeks to influence potential …
Wired: Online trust will reach an all-time low thanks to unchecked disinformation, AI-generated content, and social platforms pulling up their data drawbridges. “For researchers, social media has always represented greater access to data, more democratic involvement in knowledge production, and great transparency about social behavior. Getting a sense of what was happening—especially during political crises, …
World Economic Forum – “The Global Risks Report explores some of the most severe risks we may face over the next decade, against a backdrop of rapid technological change, economic uncertainty, a warming planet and conflict. As cooperation comes under pressure, weakened economies and societies may only require the smallest shock to edge past the …
ZDNET: “Gathering and managing research for any type of project can be a daunting task as you have to try to organize the different kinds of information you collect. One tool that aims to ease the process is Google’s NotebookLM. Using AI, NotebookLM will collate the various sources of information you add, summarize the key …
