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The Verge – Spoiler: the nine-person team works for Anthropic – “…Nearly every major AI company has some kind of safety team that’s responsible for mitigating direct, obvious harms like AI systems being used for scams or bioweapons. The goal of the societal impacts team — which does not have a direct analog at OpenAI, …
Via LLRX – Teaching Legal Research in the Generative AI Era: When Source Blindness and Source Erasure Collide (Part 1) and Teaching Legal Research in the Generative AI Era: When Source Blindness and Source Erasure Collide (Part 2) Four Part Series by Tanya Thomas [forthcoming] – Part 1 examines how we’re training a generation of lawyers who rarely …
How to Geek: “If you have an older iPhone lying around your house collecting dust, you may be sitting on a (digital) gold mine. Even if you moved on to the latest iPhone model, a spare phone can come in handy in unexpected ways.Any old, functioning device can be used in many different ways, so …
Christopher Butler – “After three years of immersion in AI, I have come to a relatively simple conclusion: it’s a useful technology that is very likely overhyped to the point of catastrophe. The best case scenario is that AI is just not as valuable as those who invest in it, make it, and sell it …
404 Media: “It’s hard to believe it’s only been a few years since generative AI tools started flooding the internet with low quality content-slop. Just over a year ago, you’d have to peruse certain corners of Facebook or spend time wading through the cultural cesspool of Elon Musk’s X to find people posting bizarre and …
The New York Times Gift Article: “Zillow, the country’s largest real estate listings site, has quietly removed a feature that showed the risks from extreme weather for more than one million home sale listings on its site. The website began publishing climate risk ratings last year using data from the risk-modeling company First Street. The …
Washington Post [and The Hill] – “A new White House webpage presents a “Hall of Shame” for news reports the president disagrees with, coming after the president has voiced personal attacks on female reporters at ABC, CBS, the New York Times and Bloomberg. The White House launched a page on its website Friday devoted to …
Fast Company – Traditional search engines are still the backbone of the online information ecosystem, but searching has shifted in measurable ways with ChatGPT: “Three years ago, if someone needed to fix a leaky faucet or understand inflation, they usually did one of three things: typed the question into Google, searched YouTube for a how-to …
Make Use Of: “… Dawarich…is an open-source tool that replicates the features I enjoyed in Google Timeline while giving me full control over where my data lives. I can run it on my own computer, on a small home server, or in a private cloud environment. There are no ads and no hidden data collection. …
Above the Law – Stephen Embry – And It May All Be Discoverable: It’s incumbent on all of us to do all we can to make ordinary people aware of the dangers. The jury is still out on how much and how soon GenAI will impact the legal profession, as I pointed out in a …
MIT Technology Review: “Separating AI reality from hyped-up fiction isn’t always easy. That’s why we’ve created the AI Hype Index—a simple, at-a-glance summary of everything you need to know about the state of the industry…”
The Verge – Cutting-edge research shows language is not the same as intelligence. “The entire AI bubble is built on ignoring it…The common feature cutting across chatbots such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Anthropic’s Claude, Google’s Gemini, and whatever Meta is calling its AI product this week are that they are all primarily “large language models.” Fundamentally, …
