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Barth, Fabian, Evolving Law in AI’s Hands? – Preliminary Experiments, Thoughts and Observations on the Basis of Chat GPT (April 27, 2023). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4431234 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4431234 “Everyone operating in the field of law contributes to its evolution. That applies not only to judges, but also to advisors and academics who, collectively, form and …
TorrentFreak (TF): “Pirate eBook repository Z-Library has shared some interesting data concluding that more than 600,000 students and scholars use the site. This is likely an underestimation, as the findings are based on email addresses. The United States is excluded from the analysis, Z-Library notes, due to the criminal prosecution of two alleged operators of …
Bard.Google – 2023.05.23 Bringing images to Bard What: Starting with English responses, Bard can now bring in images from Google Search, so you can get helpful responses with visuals. You can also ask Bard for images directly. Bard will show a source for each image. Why: Images can help you communicate your ideas more effectively. …
Office of Education Policy – Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Teaching and Learning Insights and Recommendations May 2023: “The U.S. Department of Education (Department) is committed to supporting the use of technology to improve teaching and learning and to support innovation throughout educational systems. This report addresses the clear need for sharing knowledge and …
May 23, 2023, “the Biden-Harris Administration is announcing new efforts that will advance the research, development, and deployment of responsible artificial intelligence (AI) that protects individuals’ rights and safety and delivers results for the American people. AI is one of the most powerful technologies of our time, with broad applications. President Biden has been clear …
Washington Post (free link): “Is AI coming for your job? If so, when? Unfortunately, there are no clear-cut answers to these questions. Technology develops in unpredictable ways. But a paper published last month by three scholars — Princeton’s Edward W. Felten, Manav Raj of the University of Pennsylvania and Robert Seamans of New York University …
Washington Post: “Anyone with an internet connection can watch breaking news unfold in real time, or at least some version of it. Across social media, posts can fly up faster than most fact-checkers and moderators can handle, and they’re often an unpredictable mix of true, fake, out of context and straight propaganda. The rapid spread …
U.S. Surgeon General: “This Advisory describes the current evidence on the impacts of social media on the mental health of children and adolescents. It states that we cannot conclude social media is sufficiently safe for children and adolescents and outlines immediate steps we can take to mitigate the risk of harm to children and adolescents. …
Free Technology for Teachers: “In this week’s Practical Ed Tech newsletter I made the case for using Google Scholar as part of your research process. In the newsletter I included a short video overview of Google Scholar features you should know how to use. That video is here.”
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Highlights “SambaNova, in collaboration with Together, is excited to present BLOOMChat, a 176 billion parameter multilingual chat large language model (LLM). BLOOMChat is available for research and commercial use cases under a modified version of Apache 2.0, which includes RAIL’s use-based restrictions passed down from BLOOM. BLOOMChat is a new, open, multilingual chat LLM that: …
