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Fortune: – Researchers say it’s virtually impossible to make an A.I. model ‘forget’ the things it learns from private user data “…“If a machine learning-based system has been trained on data, the only way to retroactively remove a portion of that data is by re-training the algorithms from scratch,” Anasse Bari, an A.I. expert and …
AI policies across the globe: Implications and recommendations for libraries, Leo S Lo, OnlineFirst. Published August 27, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1177/03400352231196172 – This article examines the proposed artificial intelligence policies of the USA, UK, European Union, Canada, and China, and their implications for libraries. As artificial intelligence revolutionizes library operations, it presents complex challenges, such as ethical …
Washington Post – An ordinary human’s guide to getting extraordinary results from a chatbot: “ChatGPT doesn’t come with an instruction manual. But maybe it should. Only a quarter of Americans who have heard of the AI chatbot say they have used it, Pew Research Center reported this week. “The hardest lesson” for new AI chatbot …
Protocol: “Most longtime Discord users have a similar origin story. They liked playing video games, and liked playing with their friends, so they used TeamSpeak or Skype to talk to their friends in-game. They mostly hated TeamSpeak and Skype, but they were really the only options. Eventually, a lot of those gamers realized something. They …
In Custodia Legis: “The use of artificial intelligence (AI) has increased exponentially and is permeating every aspect of our lives, from personal to professional. While it can be used in many positive ways to solve global challenges, there are also security risks to be considered, such as fundamental rights infringements, personal data security, and harmful …
The Best Free Online Web Tools You Will Ever Need – “FreeTinyTools provides free online conversion, Text Tools, Image Processing, Online Calculators, Unit converters Tools, Binary Converter Tools Website Management Tools, Development Tools and other handy tools to help you solve problems of all types. All files both processed and unprocessed are deleted after 15 …
MakeUseOf: “Extracting text from images can be useful for various reasons. Text extraction is most useful for research purposes when an image includes some text-based info. It’s quicker and more convenient to extract required text from an image rather than manually noting it all down within a word processor. Many users utilize Windows or Mac …
Grant Gulovsen, LinkedIn. “Mastodon is one of the many Twitter alternatives currently available (others you may have heard of include Threads and Bluesky). I have been using Mastodon for a little over six months and enjoy it immensely – in fact I enjoy it so much that I deleted my Twitter account in its entirety. …
Benedict Evans: “If you put all the world’s knowledge into an AI model and use it to make something new, who owns that and who gets paid? This is a completely new problem that we’ve been arguing about for 500 years. OpenAI is no longer open about exactly what it uses, but even if it …
“Mapping Diversity is a platform for discovering key facts about diversity and representation in street names across Europe, and to spark a debate about who is missing from our urban spaces. We looked at the names of 145,930 streets across 30 major European cities, located in 17 different countries. More than 90% of the streets …
The Verge: “For two decades, Google Search was the invisible force that determined the ebb and flow of online content. Now, for the first time, its cultural relevance is in question.Google officially went online later in 1998. It quickly became so inseparable from both the way we use the internet and, eventually, culture itself, that …
Bloomberg [read free link] – “The biggest social media platforms all have their niches. Twitter is for arguing with strangers. Instagram is for showing off the best of your 500 selfies. Facebook is for learning too much about an acquaintance from college. And LinkedIn is for updating the obligatory professional profile when you’re looking for …
