A Categorical Archive of ChatGPT Failures

A Categorical Archive of ChatGPT Failures. Ali Borji. Quintic AI. April 5, 2023 “Large language models have been demonstrated to be valuable in different fields. ChatGPT, developed by OpenAI, has been trained using massive amounts of data and simulates human conversation by comprehending context and generating appropriate responses. It has garnered significant attention due to …

Subjects: AI, Education, Internet, Knowledge Management

TikTok: Technology Overview and Issues

CRS Report – TikTok: Technology Overview and Issues, Updated June 30, 2023: “TikTok is a globally popular video-sharing smartphone application (app) owned by ByteDance Ltd., a privately held company headquartered in Beijing, China. It is under increasing scrutiny by the U.S. government as a potential privacy and security risk to U.S. citizens. This is because …

Subjects: Congress, Defense, E-Records, Education, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Legislation, Privacy, Social Media

Why is climate denial still thriving online?

DW: “Record global temperatures on July 3 kicked off the hottest week ever recorded as intense heat waves gripped the planet. Climate scientist Friederike Otto, of London’s Grantham Institute for Climate Change and the Environment, called the heat “a death sentence for people and ecosystems.” Yet, the next day, a political journalist in the United …

Subjects: Climate Change, Environmental Law, Internet, Knowledge Management, Social Media

Google hit with lawsuit alleging it stole data from millions of users to train AI tools

CNN: “…The complaint alleges that Google “has been secretly stealing everything ever created and shared on the internet by hundreds of millions of Americans” and using this data to train its AI products, such as its chatbot Bard. The complaint also claims Google has taken “virtually the entirety of our digital footprint,” including “creative and …

Subjects: AI, Copyright, Cybercrime, E-Records, Intellectual Property, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Privacy, Search Engines

Google Isn’t Grad School

The Atlantic [free link]: “Having so much information at our fingertips is useful but seductive, easily fooling us into thinking we know more than we do…The overconfidence of people laboring under the illusion of explanatory depth can lead to the spread of misinformation. As researchers have shown, when a person’s confidence is highest though their …

Subjects: Education, Internet, Knowledge Management

Google’s Searchbot Could Put Me Out of a Job

The Atlantic [free link]: “Google Search, like the rest of the internet, is pivoting to generative AI. The first step is Search Generative Experience, an experimental tool currently available as a public beta. Instead of sending you off to other corners of the web, more search results appear within Google. Sort of like ChatGPT, it …

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

AP investigation into ethics practices of Supreme Court justices

“An Associated Press examination of the ethics practices of the U.S. Supreme Court relied on documents obtained from more than 100 public records requests to public colleges, universities and other institutions that have hosted the justices over the past decade. Here’s a look at how the reporting was done: To conduct its review, the AP …

Subjects: Courts, Education, Financial System, Freedom of Information, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Social Media

JournalistsToolbox.ai

Created by Mike Reilley, Founder and Editor of Journalist’s Toolbox Ai: “A few years ago, I was doing a digital tools training for a group of journalists in Phoenix. One of the attendees took me to task for saying that a surge of AI tools would be coming in the next few years. “Google uses …

Subjects: AI, Internet, Knowledge Management

Facebook could be tracking your online Plan B or HIV test purchases

Popular Science: “Looking for an at-home HIV test on CVS’ website is not as private an experience as one might think. An investigation by The Markup and KFF Health News found trackers on CVS.com telling some of the biggest social media and advertising platforms the products customers viewed. And CVS is not the only pharmacy …

Subjects: E-Commerce, E-Records, Health Care, Internet, Medicine, Microsoft, Privacy, Search Engines, Social Media