Category «Knowledge Management»

It’s Their Content, You’re Just Licensing it

The New York Times: “Amid recent debates over several publishers’ removal of potentially offensive material from the work of popular 20th-century authors — including Roald Dahl, R.L. Stine and Agatha Christie — is a less discussed but no less thorny question about the method of the revisions. For some e-book owners, the changes appeared as …

Subjects: Censorship, Digital Rights, Education, Free Speech, Freedom of Information, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Libraries

The Ethics of ChatGPT: A Legal Writing and Ethics Professor’s Perspective

Romig, Jennifer Murphy, The Ethics of ChatGPT: A Legal Writing and Ethics Professor’s Perspective (February 18, 2023). Emory Legal Studies Research Paper , Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4373550 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4373550 “Teaching law students requires meeting them where they are, envisioning what they can become, and offering appropriate education and advice for their developmental journey. ChatGPT is …

Subjects: AI, Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Top browsers for privacy (and why you should hide your online activity)

ZDNET: “Web browsers have become flooded with ad-sponsored content, making browsers a key battleground for end-user privacy. While Chrome is the most widely-used browser in the world, there are also alternative browsers and ways to improve your security, while staying anonymous online. Data is one of today’s key ingredients for generating revenue. Online advertising companies …

Subjects: E-Mail, E-Records, Internet, Knowledge Management, Privacy, Search Engines

Legal tech disruptors vLex and Fastcase merge to form world’s largest global law library

“vLex and Fastcase, two of the largest, fastest-growing legal technology companies, announced today that they are merging to form the world’s largest law firm subscriber base with more than one billion legal documents from more than 100 countries. As part of the merger, Oakley Capital and Bain Capital Credit are investing in the combined business …

Subjects: AI, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

The State of Remote Work: 5 Trends to Know for 2023

Cision PR Newswire: “The sudden shift to remote and hybrid work spurred significant change for employers, employees and job seekers. But after several years of adjusting, where do they stand when it comes to working in the office versus anywhere? New research from talent solutions and business consulting firm Robert Half reveals five remote work …

Subjects: Economy, Financial System, Internet, Knowledge Management

NIST Trustworthy & Responsible Artificial Intelligence Resource Center

“Welcome to the NIST Trustworthy & Responsible Artificial Intelligence Resource Center (AIRC).  The AIRC supports all AI actors in the development and deployment of trustworthy and responsible AI technologies. AIRC supports and operationalizes the NIST AI Risk Management Framework (AI RMF 1.0) and accompanying Playbook and will grow with enhancements to enable an interactive, role-based …

Subjects: AI, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management

Measuring trends in Artificial Intelligence

“The AI Index is an independent initiative at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI), led by the AI Index Steering Committee, an interdisciplinary group of experts from across academia and industry. The annual report tracks, collates, distills, and visualizes data relating to artificial intelligence, enabling decision-makers to take meaningful action to advance AI …

Subjects: AI, Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legislation, Social Media

How We Think About Copyright and AI Art

EFF: “Artists are understandably concerned about the possibility that automatic image generators like Stable Diffusion will undercut the market for their work. We live in a society that does not support people who are automated out of a job, and being a visual artist is an already precarious career. In this context, it’s natural to …

Subjects: AI, Copyright, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Patent and Trademark

Generative AI may play a big role in recruiting

Tech Republic: “Tech recruiters have to keep in mind talent shortages, layoffs, budget cuts and economic uncertainty, as well as diversity, equity and inclusion mandates. Suffice it to say, it’s not an easy time to be a recruiter. But LinkedIn’s The Future of Recruiting 2023 report finds that generative AI tools such as ChatGPT may …

Subjects: AI, Economy, Education, Knowledge Management, Privacy

ChatGPT can’t access the internet, even though it really looks like it can

Simon Willison’s Weblog: “A really common misconception about ChatGPT is that it can access URLs. I’ve seen many different examples of people pasting in a URL and asking for a summary, or asking it to make use of the content on that page in some way. One recent example: “List the processors on https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/minimum/supported/windows-11-22h2-supported-intel-processors“. Try …

Subjects: AI, Internet, Knowledge Management

A gobal approach for natural history museum collections

Popular Science – Is there a way to keep track of all the items held in natural history museums? By Charlotte Hu: “Natural history museums offer amazing portals into worlds miles away from our own, and into eras from the distant past. Comprised of fossils, minerals, preserved specimens, and much more, some collections are of …

Subjects: Climate Change, Education, Environmental Law, Internet, Knowledge Management, Libraries

Will Wikipedia be written by AI? Founder Jimmy Wales is thinking about it

Evening Standard: “By now, even those of us who live under a rock have become familiar with ChatGPT, the AI-powered chatbot that can find us the answer to almost every question under the sun. It seems to be able to effortlessly write reports, compose letters or even poetry — for any subject it’s asked about, …

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