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Netcraft: “When Netcraft researchers asked a large language model where to log into various well-known platforms, the results were surprisingly dangerous. Of 131 hostnames provided in response to natural language queries for 50 brands, 34% of them were not controlled by the brands at all. Two-thirds of the time, the model returned the correct URL. …
Tabb Forum: “Forget AI world domination, for the moment – the real story is how it’s making us better. But are you worried AI will make a “tool” out of you? Andrew Dunn, Practice Lead at Streets Consulting, cuts through the hype, exploring AI’s immense power alongside its limitations, and looks at why human intelligence …
“The U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) has made available hundreds of historic volumes of U.S. Supreme Court cases dating from 1790–1991. These cases are published officially in the United States Reports and are now available on GPO’s GovInfo, the one-stop site for authentic, published information for all three branches of the Federal Government. United States …
Gallup: “As artificial intelligence transitions from abstraction to reality, U.S. adults are evenly divided on its implications for humankind. Forty-nine percent say AI is “just the latest in a long line of technological advancements that humans will learn to use to improve their lives and society,” while an equal proportion say it is “very different …
Mark Magazine #66 February/March 2017 – “Contemporary warriors are retreating more and more from the battle field and exchange guns for computers like the one this article is written with. But unlike me, these warriors are sitting in maximum security installations like bunkers. Therefore, hitting a bunker is a military jackpot, eliminating drone pilots, cyber …
Brainyacts: “What we know so far: Some users got access to a new tool called “Study together”, which acts differently and guides you through the study process step by step. penAI is preparing a new feature called “Study together”, which has started appearing in system hints for some users within ChatGPT’s main prompt, alongside familiar …
Artificial Lawyer: “A major survey by Axiom of 600+ senior inhouse lawyers across eight countries on AI adoption has found that 66% of them are using ‘raw’ LLM chatbots such as ChatGPT, and only between 7% and 17% are using bona fide legal AI tools made for this sector. There is something terrible about this, …
404 Media: “Agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have gained access to a massive database of health and car insurance claims and are using it to track down people they want to deport, according to internal ICE material viewed by 404 Media. The database, which contains details on more than 1.8 billion insurance claims …
American Prospect – Robert Kuttner: “Once again, the Supreme Court has issued an extreme ruling, this time upholding President Trump’s right to order mass firings of government employees, in plain violation of Congress’s authority. And once again, the Court relied on the so-called shadow docket, issuing an emergency procedure staying lower-court injunctions, allowing the justices …
Reuters – no paywall: “OpenAI is close to releasing an AI-powered web browser that will challenge Alphabet’s, market-dominating Google Chrome, three people familiar with the matter told Reuters. The browser is slated to launch in the coming weeks, three of the people said, and aims to use artificial intelligence to fundamentally change how consumers browse …
CNN Reliable Sources: “The loss of local news relates to so many other problems plaguing the US: Polarization, radicalization, loneliness, lack of trust in everyone and everything. So it’s vital to track the so-called “news deserts” — and recognize that these deserts exist not just in rural areas, but also in highly populated parts of …
WSJ: “Publishers are stepping up efforts to protect their websites from tech companies that hoover up content for new AI tools. The media companies have sued, forged licensing deals to be compensated for the use of their material, or both. Many asked nicely for artificial-intelligence bots to stop scraping. Now, they are working to block …