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How to Geek: “Docs is a new open-source collaborative text editor, intended as an alternative to Notion, Google Docs, Outline, and other similar web-based services. Interestingly, the project is being led by the governments of France and Germany. Docs is a web-based collaborative writing tool, with the ability for multiple people to view and edit …
Live Science: “Punishing artificial intelligence for deceptive or harmful actions doesn’t stop it from misbehaving; it just makes it hide its deviousness, a new study by ChatGPT creator OpenAI has revealed. Since arriving in public in late 2022, artificial intelligence (AI) large language models (LLMs) have repeatedly revealed their deceptive and outright sinister capabilities. These …
WSJ via MSN: “…Around 400 million people use ChatGPT every week, OpenAI said. Students are the most common users, according to the company, which offers a free version and advanced services costing as much as $200 a month. OpenAI hopes students will get into a lifelong habit of consulting ChatGPT whenever they have a question, …
Science: “The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) on Friday told staff members it has canceled subscriptions carried by its National Agricultural Library as part of a drive by President Donald Trump’s administration to cut federal spending. The move appears to drop nearly 400 of the library’s roughly 2000 journals, including many prominent in various agricultural …
Pudding – Onomatopoeia Odyssey: “For many, our first memories of learning animal sounds include the song “Old MacDonald Had a Farm.” The song has been translated into at least 25 languages, and a curious finding reveals itself when we compare these translations: English cows go “moo”, while French cows go “meuh”, and Korean cows go …
Institute for social Research, University of Michigan: DataLumos is an ICPSR archive for valuable government data resources. ICPSR has a long commitment to safekeeping and disseminating US government and other social science data. DataLumos accepts deposits of public data resources from the community and recommendations of public data resources that ICPSR itself might add to …
Vals Legal AI Report [free-registration required] “This first-of-its-kind study evaluates how four legal AI tools perform across seven legal tasks, benchmarking their results against those produced by a lawyer control group (the Lawyer Baseline). The seven tasks evaluated in this study were Data Extraction, Document Q&A, Document Summarization, Redlining, Transcript Analysis, Chronology Generation, and EDGAR …
TechSpot: “In context: It is a foregone conclusion that AI models can lack accuracy. Hallucinations and doubling down on wrong information have been an ongoing struggle for developers. Usage varies so much in individual use cases that it’s hard to nail down quantifiable percentages related to AI accuracy. A research team claims it now has …
90 – Penguin UK (my go to publisher): “It was the Roman Republic’s chin-stroker-in-chief Cicero who said it first: “A room without books is like a body without a soul.” But is that really true? And what about a room with only a handful of books? Ask legendary clean-queen Marie Kondo and she’d likely disagree. …
“While it’s self-proclaimed, it’s easy to believe that this is the largest collection of links to free sites on the internet” [Free]. All searchable, the content spans AI, Discord, Privacy, Gaming, Movies, TV, Anime, Sports, Music, Podcasts, Radio, Books, Comics, Manga, Downloading, Torrenting, Educational, Android, iOS, Linux, MacOS, Non-english….”
“I recently discovered a pretty amazing website called DiffChecker. It compares files and visually highlights any differences. You can use it to compare texts you paste right into the browser window, or you can upload documents to compare. It accepts Word docs, pdfs, spreadsheets and image files. To find the differences between two versions of …
Gizmodo: “The Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, has secured unprecedented access to at least seven sensitive federal databases, including those of the Internal Revenue Service and Social Security Administration. This access has sparked fears about cybersecurity vulnerabilities and privacy violations. Another concern has received far less attention: the potential use of the data to …
