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JSTOR Daily: How can contemporary biographers contend with the explosion of materials at their disposal? “It may be that the digital revolution has had a more profound effect on biography and life writing than on any other branch of literature, perhaps any branch of the arts,” writes the scholar Paul Longley Arthur. The developments of …
The New York Times [free link] – to see this text scroll down the page: ” Large language models, or L.L.M.s, the artificial intelligence systems that power tools like ChatGPT, are developed using enormous libraries of text. Books are considered especially useful training material, because they’re lengthy and (hopefully) well-written. But authors are starting to …
The New York Times [free link]: “Elite colleges have long been filled with the children of the richest families: At Ivy League schools, one in six students has parents in the top 1 percent. A large new study, released Monday, shows that it has not been because these children had more impressive grades on average …
Wired – free link: “Every new technology from the internet to virtual reality has tried to upend book culture. There’s a reason they’ve all failed—and always will…The tech world has long been convinced that it understands the desires of readers better than they do themselves. For years, VCs have promised to upend books and the …
Via LLRX – Why Does the U.S. Copyright Office Require Libraries to Lie to Users about Their Fair Use Rights? They Won’t Say. Rick Anderson, University Librarian at Brigham Young University, contends that the copyright warning notice prescribed by the US Copyright Office misleads library patrons about their fair use rights, and must change.
Tech Republic: “In an expansive Forrester report on the top 10 emerging technologies of 2023, it comes as no surprise that generative AI tops the list, followed by autonomous workplace assistants and conversational AI. These three technologies “… are poised to deliver a return on investment soon,” which Forrester defines as less than two years. …
McMahon, Susan, What We Teach When We Teach Legal Analysis (June 28, 2023). Minnesota Law Review, Vol. 107, No. 2511, 2023, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4494293 “Traditional legal education, especially in the first year, often leaves students with the impression that law is neutral and objective, and their job, as lawyers, is to read cases, pull …
Via LLRX – Eliminating bias in AI may be impossible – a computer scientist explains how to tame it instead. Professor Emilio Ferrara supports the position that removing bias from AI is a laudable goal, but blindly eliminating biases can have unintended consequences. Instead he suggests that bias in AI can be controlled to achieve …
How to Geek: “No matter where you live, there are almost certainly TV channels—likely even HD—that you can watch for free with a simple OTA antenna. But you don’t need to buy an antenna to find out which channels you can get…OTA TV—also known as “terrestrial TV”—is broadcasted “over the air” from the towers of …
The New York Times [free to read]: “Can the online encyclopedia help teach A.I. chatbots to get their facts right — without destroying itself in the process?…The new A.I. chatbots have typically swallowed Wikipedia’s corpus, too. Embedded deep within their responses to queries is Wikipedia data and Wikipedia text, knowledge that has been compiled over …
ZDNet: “Microsoft is on a hot streak for releasing updates to its AI chatbot, powered by the same technology behind ChatGPT. And anyone can give Bing Chat a try — no waitlist or Microsoft account needed…With the new Bing, you can ask the AI chatbot questions and get detailed, human-like responses with footnotes that link …
Wasington Post: “For a generation of internet users looking for answers, Google was the first stop. Google became so associated with search that its name became synonymous with the act of seeking information online. But there are signs that’s changing…To be sure, Google is still a dominant force in search. The platform still holds 90 …
