Category «AI»

Uber for Nursing: How an AI-Powered Gig Model Is Threatening Health Care

Roosevelt Institute: “The gig economy’s labor model and its algorithmic management technologies now have a foothold in one of the largest labor sectors in the country: health care. On-demand nursing companies such as CareRev, Clipboard Health, ShiftKey, and ShiftMed have promised hospitals more control and nurses more flexibility. Through original interviews with 29 “gig” nurses …

Subjects: AI, Health Care, Legal Research, Legislation, Medicine

BirdVoxDetect: Large-Scale Detection and Classification of Flight Calls for Bird Migration Monitoring

V. Lostanlen et al., “BirdVoxDetect: Large-Scale Detection and Classification of Flight Calls for Bird Migration Monitoring,” in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, vol. 32, pp. 4134-4145, 2024, doi: 10.1109/TASLP.2024.3444486. “Sound event classification has the potential to advance our understanding of bird migration. Although it is long known that migratory species have a …

Subjects: AI, Civil Liberties, Environmental Law

Federal government discloses more than 1,700 AI use cases

FedScoop: “A consolidated list of federal artificial intelligence use cases released by the White House on Wednesday shows agencies more than doubled the amount of uses reported last year.Per the 2024 consolidated inventory, which is available on the Office of Management and Budget’s GitHub, 37 federal agencies have reported 1,757 public AI uses. A consolidated …

Subjects: AI, E-Government, E-Mail, Health Care, Knowledge Management

Introducing QuizBot an Innovative AI-Assisted Assessment in Legal Education

Harrington, Sean, Introducing QuizBot an Innovative AI-Assisted Assessment in Legal Education (October 03, 2024). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4975804 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4975804  –  “This Article explores an innovative approach to assessment in legal education: an AI-assisted quiz system implemented in an AI & the Practice of Law course. The system employs a Socratic method-inspired chatbot to engage …

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

You Can Now Search the Internet With ChatGPT

Lifehacker – “ChatGPT search has been out now for about a month and a half, following a Halloween announcement from OpenAI. With this new feature, the company finally rolled out an official competitor to AI search engines like Perplexity, Google’s AI Overviews, and Microsoft Bing (powered by Copilot). OpenAI originally announced its search plans back …

Subjects: AI, Internet, Knowledge Management, Search Engines

AI in Finance and Banking – December 16, 2024

AI in Finance and Banking – December 16, 2024 – This semi-monthly column by Sabrina I. Pacifici, highlights news, government documents, NGO/IGO papers, conferences, industry white papers and reports, academic papers and speeches, and central bank actions on the subject of AI’s fast paced impact on the banking and finance sectors. The chronological links provided …

Subjects: AI, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Economy, Financial System, Legal Research

Inescapable AI

A Report from TechTonic Justice – Inescapable AI The Ways AI Decides How Low-Income People Work, Live, Learn, and Survive – “The use of artificial intelligence, or AI, by governments, landlords, employers, and other powerful private interests restricts the opportunities of low-income people in every basic aspect of life: at home, at work, in school, …

Subjects: AI, Economy, Financial System, Housing, Privacy

Beyond Fairness in Computer Vision: A Holistic Approach to Mitigating Harms and Fostering Community-Rooted Computer Vision Research

Timnit Gebru and Remi Denton (2024), “Beyond Fairness in Computer Vision: A Holistic Approach to Mitigating Harms and Fostering Community-Rooted Computer Vision Research”, Foundations and Trends® in Computer Graphics  and Vision: Vol. 16, No. 3, pp 215–321. DOI: 10.1561/0600000102. “The field of computer vision is now a multi-billion dollar enterprise, with its use in surveillance …

Subjects: AI, Civil Liberties, Education, Free Speech, Freedom of Information, Internet, Legal Research

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, December 14, 2024

Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, December 14, 2024 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on …

Subjects: AI, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Health Care, ID Theft, Internet, Privacy, Social Media

Social media needs (dumpster) fire exits

Pluralistic: “Of course you should do everything you can to prevent fires – and also, you should build fire exits, because no matter how hard to you try, stuff burns. That includes social media sites. Social media has its own special form of lock-in: we use social media sites to connect with friends, family members, …

Subjects: AI, E-Commerce, Economy, Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Marketing, Social Media

Harvard Is Releasing a Massive Free AI Training Dataset Funded by OpenAI and Microsoft

Wired – “The project’s leader says that allowing everyone to access the collection of public-domain books will help “level the playing field” in the AI industry. Harvard University announced Thursday it’s releasing a high-quality dataset of nearly 1 million public-domain books that could be used by anyone to train large language models and other AI …

Subjects: AI, Copyright, Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Libraries, Microsoft

Teens, Social Media and Technology 2024

Pew: Most teens use social media and have a smartphone, and nearly half say they’re online almost constantly. “Nine-in-ten teens report using YouTube, slightly down from 95% in 2022. Roughly six-in-ten teens say they use TikTok and Instagram, and 55% say the same for Snapchat. YouTube tops the list of the online platforms we asked …

Subjects: AI, E-Commerce, Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Marketing, Social Media