The Most Important Job Skill of This Century

The Atlantic: “A product race is under way in the world of artificial intelligence. Just this week, Google announced plans to release Bard, a search chatbot based on its proprietary large language model; yesterday, Microsoft held an event unveiling a next-generation web browser with a supercharged Bing interface powered by ChatGPT. Though most big tech …

Subjects: AI, Economy, Education, Financial System, Internet, Knowledge Management

Treasury Report Assesses Opportunities, Challenges Facing Financial Sector Cloud-Based Technology Adoption

“The U.S. Department of the Treasury today released a report, The Financial Sector’s Adoption of Cloud Services, on the potential benefits and challenges associated with the increasing trend of financial sector firms adopting cloud services technology. While cloud services can increase access and reliability for local communities as well as empower community banks to compete …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Economy, Financial System, Government Documents, Legal Research

100 Best Children’s Books of All Times

TIME: “We’re living in a golden age of young-adult literature, when books ostensibly written for teens are equally adored by readers of every generation. In the likes of Harry Potter and Katniss Everdeen, they’ve produced characters and conceits that have become the currency of our pop-culture discourse—and inspired some of our best writers to contribute …

Subjects: Education, Libraries

EEAS Report on Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference Threats

1st EEAS Report on Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference Threats. Towards a framework for networked defence, February 2023. “This first edition of the report on Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference threats is informed by the work of the European External Action Service’s (EEAS) Stratcom division 8 in 2022. It is the first of its kind …

Subjects: Censorship, Cybercrime, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

NIST Selects ‘Lightweight Cryptography’ Algorithms to Protect Small Devices

NIST: “Lightweight electronics, meet the heavyweight champion for protecting your information: Security experts at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have announced a victor in their program to find a worthy defender of data generated by small devices. The winner, a group of cryptographic algorithms called Ascon, will be published as NIST’s lightweight …

Subjects: E-Records, Financial System, Government Documents, Health Care, Internet, Knowledge Management, Privacy

Microsoft’s new Bing and Edge hands-on: Surprisingly well-integrated AI

engadget: “The age of generative AI is upon us, and this week alone Google and Microsoft made major announcements around their respective products for the masses. While Google unveiled an “experimental conversational AI service” called Bard yesterday, Microsoft had a fuller slate of news to share at its event in Redmond, WA today. Through a …

Subjects: AI, Internet, Search Engines

$122 Billion: The Growing, Annual Cost of the Infant-Toddler Child Care Crisis

Report – Strong Nation.org – ReadyNation – Impact on families, businesses, and taxpayers has more than doubled since 2018. $122 Billion: The Growing, Annual Costof the Infant-Toddler Child Care Crisis. “…ReadyNation’s updated study finds that the nation’s infant-toddler child care crisis now costs $122 billion in lost earnings, productivity, and revenue every year. This staggering …

Subjects: Economy, Financial System

AI State of the Union

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Tuesday, February 7, 2023 – FiscalNote Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: NOTE) (“FiscalNote”), a leading AI-driven enterprise SaaS technology provider of global policy and market intelligence – is leveraging its proprietary AI technology to provide a live transcript of the address in real-time, paired with video coverage and non-partisan automated and human-enhanced analysis to …

Subjects: AI, Congress, Government Documents, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Legislation

The Law of AI for Good

Lobel, Orly, The Law of AI for Good (January 26, 2023). San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 23-001, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4338862 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4338862  – “Legal policy and scholarship are increasingly focused on regulating technology to safeguard against risks and harms, neglecting the ways in which the law should direct the use of new technology, …

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

Americans Don’t Understand What Companies Can Do With Their Personal Data

Annenberg School for Communications, University of Pennsylvania: A new survey of 2,000 Americans finds that people don’t understand what marketers are learning about them online and don’t want their data collected, but feel powerless to stop it…In a new report, “Americans Can’t Consent to Companies’ Use of Their Data,” researchers asked a nationally representative group …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Mail, E-Records, Economy, Financial System, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Privacy

Google is holding an event about search and AI on February 8th

The Verge: “Google is about to share more about its work in artificial intelligence. Next week, Google will be holding an event about how it’s “using the power of AI to reimagine how people search for, explore and interact with information, making it more natural and intuitive than ever before to find what you need,” …

Subjects: AI, Internet, Knowledge Management, Search Engines