Category «AI»

Thinking About AI

Albert Wenger – continuations – “I am writing this post to organize and share my thoughts about the extraordinary progress in artificial intelligence over the last years and especially the last few months (link to a lot of my prior writing). First, I want to come right out and say that anyone still dismissing what …

Subjects: AI, Knowledge Management

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 …

Subjects: AI, Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Search Engines

Microsoft announces generative AI Security Copilot

CSO – “Microsoft’s new generative AI security system grafts GPT-4 into its security offerings for integrated analysis and responses. AI Security Copilot’s basic interface is similar to the chatbot functionality familiar to generative AI users. It can be used in the same way, to answer security questions in a natural manner, but the more impressive …

Subjects: AI, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Microsoft

The criminal use of ChatGPT – a cautionary tale about large language models

EUROPOL: “In response to the growing public attention given to ChatGPT, the Europol Innovation Lab organised a number of workshops with subject matter experts from across Europol to explore how criminals can abuse large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT, as well as how it may assist investigators in their daily work.  Their insights are …

Subjects: AI, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Government Documents, Legal Research

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 …

Subjects: AI, Copyright, Education, Intellectual Property, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Privacy, Search Engines

A.I. Is Sucking the Entire Internet In. What If You Could Yank Some Back Out?

Slate: “Over the coming years, A.I. companies will release even more advanced models that will remind us that this is just the beginning. At least one of these tools will be different in an important way: It will be prohibited from seeing 80 million of the images that helped teach its predecessors to draw and …

Subjects: AI, Intellectual Property, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

New report from OpenAI finds that higher-income jobs are most exposed to GPT

Working Paper – GPTs are GPTs: An Early Look at the Labor Market Impact Potential of Large Language Models, March 27, 2023. “We investigate the potential implications of large language models (LLMs), such as Generative Pre- trained Transformers (GPTs), on the U.S. labor market, focusing on the increased capabilities arising from LLM-powered software compared to …

Subjects: AI, Economy, Education, Internet, Knowledge Management

wtf does this company do?

“this world needs better copywriters for landing pages but till then we have good ol’ gpt-3 to help us out.” Enter a business domain url, and this site will respond with a company summary. Next you can choose to receive an explanation about what the company does, and then maybe even choose to “roast” the …

Subjects: AI, Internet, Knowledge Management

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 …

Subjects: AI, E-Mail, E-Records, Internet, Knowledge Management, Search Engines