Category «Search Engines»

Introducing QuizBot an Innovative AI-Assisted Assessment in Legal Education

Harrington, Sean, Introducing QuizBot an Innovative AI-Assisted Assessment in Legal Education (October 03, 2024). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4975804 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4975804  –  “This Article explores an innovative approach to assessment in legal education: an AI-assisted quiz system implemented in an AI & the Practice of Law course. The system employs a Socratic method-inspired chatbot to engage …

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

You Can Now Search the Internet With ChatGPT

Lifehacker – “ChatGPT search has been out now for about a month and a half, following a Halloween announcement from OpenAI. With this new feature, the company finally rolled out an official competitor to AI search engines like Perplexity, Google’s AI Overviews, and Microsoft Bing (powered by Copilot). OpenAI originally announced its search plans back …

Subjects: AI, Internet, Knowledge Management, Search Engines

AirNow.gov – Home of the U.S. Air Quality Index

Get air quality data where you live. Search by zip code, city, or state. “The Air Quality System (AQS), formerly the Aerometric Information Retrieval System (AIRS), is the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) repository of ambient air quality data. AQS stores data from over 10,000 monitors, 5,000 of which are currently active. The system contains …

Subjects: Climate Change, E-Government, Environmental Law, Health Care, Search Engines

The Best Dark Web Browser for Your Device

MakeUseOf: “When you want to access the dark web, you need a special browser. Popular browsers, like Chrome and Safari, are unsuitable; You need a special dark web browser to open the encrypted dark web while preserving your anonymity. Whether exploring the hidden internet for curiosity or privacy, these are the best dark browsers. Tor …

Subjects: Privacy, Search Engines

Website Shows How Much Google’s AI Can Glean From Your Photos

Wired – A photo sharing startup founded by an ex-Google engineer found a clever way to turn Google’s tech against itself. “…Last month, Ente launched https://Theyseeyourphotos.com, a website and marketing stunt designed to turn Google’s technology against itself. People can upload any photo to the website, which is then sent to a Google Cloud computer …

Subjects: AI, Internet, Privacy, Search Engines, Social Media

We’re about to enter the Digital Dark Ages

The Business Insider – Online archives are vanishing — and they’re taking our history with them. “The long-promised digital apocalypse has finally arrived, and it was heralded by a blog post. Published on July 18, the post’s headline sounded pretty arcane. “Google URL Shortener links will no longer be available,” it declared. I know, I …

Subjects: Courts, E-Records, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Search Engines

Washington Post Leverages ‘AI’ To Undermine History And Make Search Less Useful

TechDirt: “While “AI” (language learning models) certainly could help journalism, the fail upward brunchlords in charge of most modern media outlets instead see the technology as a way to cut corners, undermine labor, badly automate low-quality, ultra-low effort, SEO-chasing clickbait, and rush undercooked solutions to nonexistent problems to market under the pretense of progress.  For example, …

Subjects: AI, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Search Engines, Social Media

Location data firm helps police find out when suspects visited their doctor

Ars Technica: “A location-tracking company that sells its services to police departments is apparently using addresses and coordinates of doctors’ and lawyers’ offices and other types of locations to help cops compile lists of places visited by suspects, according to a 404 Media report published today. Fog Data Science, which says it “harness[es] the power …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Defense, Health Care, Legal Research, Medicine, Privacy, Search Engines

Dow Jones negotiates AI usage agreements with nearly 4,000 news publishers

NiemanLab: “…Last month, Factiva announced it had signed generative AI usage agreements with nearly 4,000 publishers around the world. The agreements are for the business intelligence platform and news database, which houses articles by online outlets, newspapers, magazines, and transcripts of radio shows. Among the thousands of publishers who signed the agreements are The Associated …

Subjects: AI, Economy, Financial System, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Libraries, Search Engines

CREAT: Census Research Exploration and Analysis Tool

The Census Research Exploration and Analysis Tool CREAT is a data tool from the Center for Economic Studies (CES) at the US Census Bureau that uses natural language processing and artificial intelligence tools to analyze, categorize, and sort the economic research contained in the CES working paper series. The goal of this project is to …

Subjects: E-Government, Economy, Financial System, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Search Engines

Searchable archive of DOJ Civil Rights Division reports and findings letters

Tyler McBrien. DOJ Police Department Pattern or Practice Reports and Findings Letters. A searchable archive of the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division reports from investigations into patterns and practices of excessive force, biased policing, and other unconstitutional practices by law enforcement.

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Government Documents, Legal Research, Search Engines