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Washington Post via MSN: “The Justice Department has lost thousands of experienced attorneys since the start of the Trump administration and has backfilled a fraction of the open jobs, with the process snarled by a lack of qualified candidates, bureaucratic delays and hiring freezes, according to people familiar with hirings in the department. Last year, …
Washington Post – Gift Article: “More than 800 million people use ChatGPT each week, according to its maker, OpenAI, but their conversations with the artificial intelligence chatbot are private. Unlike for social media apps, there is little way for those outside the company to know how people use the service — or what ChatGPT says …
Semefor: “The largest pre-publication repository of scientific studies announced it would no longer accept computer science review papers because of the rise of fake AI-generated content. arXiv is a preprint site, which accepts papers before peer review with minimal moderation. It allows wider access to research that is usually behind paywalls, and vastly speeds up …
ABA – Stepehen Embry: “I often hear from lawyers and legal professionals from small or solo firms about cost concerns when it comes to the use of AI, particularly for legal research. They worry about being left behind and being placed at a competitive disadvantage compared to large firms with sophisticated tools. They are literally …
Good Jobs First: “In the past year, four the biggest tech giants, Amazon, Google, Meta and Microsoft, spent an estimated $360 billion on capital expenditures, mostly building data centers across the U.S.; even more investment is projected in the next several years. Most of that will be spent on purchasing building materials and specialized equipment, …
Ars Technica – I got hacked; I lost my login; it was a rough draft; toggling windows is hard. “Amid what one judge called an “epidemic” of fake AI-generated case citations bogging down courts, some common excuses are emerging from lawyers hoping to dodge the most severe sanctions for filings deemed misleading. Using a database …
“You may have heard that the Farmer’s Almanac, based out of Lewiston, ME, is ceasing publication after an incredible 200+ year run. Over the years, there has been some confusion between different almanacs, so to be clear: The OLD Farmer’s Almanac isn’t going anywhere. As we have since 1792, during George Washington’s presidency, we will continue …
“Byte? Before Hackernews, before Twitter, before blogs, before the web had been spun, when the internet was just four universities in a trenchcoat, there was *BYTE*. A monthly mainline of the entire personal computing universe, delivered on dead trees for a generation of hackers. Running from September 1975 to July 1998, its 277 issues chronicled …
The New York Times – “More lawyers are using artificial intelligence to write legal briefs. Some colleagues are publicizing the A.I.-generated errors…While judges and bar associations generally agree that it’s fine for lawyers to use chatbots for research, they must still ensure their filings are accurate. But as the technology has taken off, so has …
UC Santa Barbara: “Thousands of songs representing some of the rarest and most uniquely American music borne from the Jazz Age and the Great Depression would have likely been lost to landfills and faded from memory. Fans and historians have long credited obsessive record collectors for preserving much of that music, and today they can …
Via Semafor – “Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum is hosting the first major exhibition of 17th-century painter Michaelina Wautier. Virtually unknown today, Wautier painted across genres, including portraiture, still life, and even historical scenes, which usually required the study of live models, a practice women were banned from. The exhibition includes 29 paintings, including Triumph of Bacchus, …
Fast Company – “Big spending on artificial intelligence puts pressure on jobs, as gloomy narratives about the future of work are ironically making new graduates less employable.. For decades now, we have been told that artificial intelligence systems will soon replace human workers. Sixty years ago, for example, Herbert Simon, who received a Nobel Prize …
