Category «Knowledge Management»

MIT Press’s Direct to Open (D2O) achieves second year goal

MIT Press: “With 322 participating libraries and new consortium agreements, the D2O publishing model has now opened access to more than 160 scholarly monographs and edited collections Thanks to the support of libraries participating in Direct to Open (D2O), the MIT Press will publish its full list (see below) of 2023 scholarly monographs and edited …

Subjects: Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Libraries

Zoom May Use Your Calls and Data to Train AI

Cyber Kendra: “…Recently, the popular video conferencing platform, Zoom, brought in a significant change to its terms of service which has sent ripples of worry across its vast user base. With this revision, Zoom has brought under its wing the permission to use users’ data to train Artificial Intelligence (AI). While this has undoubtedly sparked …

Subjects: AI, Digital Rights, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Privacy

Law Schools Split on ChatGPT in Admissions Essays

Inside Higher Education: “As ChatGPT becomes commonplace among legal professionals, law schools are divided on whether to allow students to use the artificial intelligence tool in the admissions process. A week after the University of Michigan Law School announced the AI tool would be banned in law school applications, Arizona State University Law School took …

Subjects: AI, Education, Knowledge Management

Best Of 7 “Best” AI Legal Assistants

Unite AI: “In the fast-paced world of legal practice, keeping up with the demands of case management, research, and client communication can be challenging. Artificial intelligence has stepped in to alleviate some of these challenges by providing AI-powered legal assistant tools. These tools are designed to streamline processes, improve efficiency, and assist law professionals in …

Subjects: AI, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, August 6, 2023

Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, August 6, 2023 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly …

Subjects: AI, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Internet, Knowledge Management, Wireless Web

Brave cuts ties with Bing to offer its own image and video search results

Brave Blog: “Every image and video result in Brave Search is now served by Brave. Users no longer need to choose between Bing and Google for image and video search. After several months of development, Brave Search is releasing its own privacy-preserving image and video search that is independent from Big Tech search engines. Users …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Privacy

Your résumé isn’t the only thing popular job sites evaluate

Washington Post: “…Job seekers…say they’re increasingly struggling to find positions and cut through the hundreds of applications targeted at one job on popular sites like Indeed, ZipRecruiter and LinkedIn. Many are convinced that job-matching features powered by artificial intelligence on these sites don’t always work in their favor. In some instances, AI recommendation systems are …

Subjects: AI, Economy, Internet, Knowledge Management, Marketing, Privacy, Search Engines, Social Media

The GPTJudge: Justice in a Generative AI World

Grossman, Maura and Grimm, Paul and Brown, Dan and Xu, Molly, The GPTJudge: Justice in a Generative AI World (May 23, 2023). Duke Law & Technology Review, Vol. 23, No. 1, 2023, Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2023-30, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4460184 “Generative AI (“GenAI”) systems such as ChatGPT recently …

Subjects: AI, Courts, Government Documents, Intellectual Property, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Hopkins researchers discover a new technique to ground a large language model’s answers in reality

Johns Hopkins University Hub: “Asking ChatGPT for answers comes with a risk—it may offer you entirely made-up “facts” that sound legitimate, as a New York lawyer recently discovered. Despite having been trained on vast amounts of factual data, large language models, or LLMs, are prone to generating false information called hallucinations. This may happen when …

Subjects: AI, Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Search Engines

Embracing Artificial Intelligence in the Legal Landscape: The Blueprint

Tąkiel, Maciej and Wagner, Dominik and Maksym, Błazej and Tarczyński, Tomasz, Embracing Artificial Intelligence in the Legal Landscape: The Blueprint (June 22, 2023). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4488199 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.448819 “This innovative case study outlines a blueprint for strategic transformation based on the example of a real-life law firm operating in Germany, using AI tools and …

Subjects: AI, Courts, Economy, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research