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EVENTS
The Ohio State University: Role of AI in literature is topic of Ohio State lecture by Pulitzer Prize finalist. “If artificial intelligence (AI) continues to evolve and becomes capable of producing first-rate literature, will the technology eventually replace human writers? Author, journalist and professor Vauhini Vara addressed the topic during a recent lecture at The Ohio State University’s Columbus campus.”
TWEAKS AND UPDATES
National Library of Finland: National Library to stop continuous collection of content from messaging service X for Finnish Web Archive. “The continuous harvesting effort has preserved content from the accounts of over 3,000 Finnish users representing fields including the media, cultural institutions, central government, universities, the legal system, politics, political parties, associations and the arts as well as various experts and social media influencers. As a result of recent changes in the X services and opportunities to preserve content, the National Library has decided to stop the continuous harvest of content from X as of this October.” The article was originally written in Finnish and released at the end of October.
TechCrunch: Microsoft Copilot gets a music creation feature via Suno integration. “Microsoft Copilot, Microsoft’s AI-powered chatbot, can now compose songs thanks to an integration with GenAI music app Suno. Users can enter prompts into Copilot like ‘Create a pop song about adventures with your family’ and have Suno, via a plug-in, bring their musical ideas to life. From a single sentence, Suno can generate complete songs — including lyrics, instrumentals and singing voices.”
USEFUL STUFF
Online Journalism Blog: How to combine two datasets to put a story into context (book extract). “One of the most common challenges in a data-driven story is combining two sets of data — such as events and populations — to put a story into context. In an extract from the ebook Finding Stories in Spreadsheets, I explain how to use lookup functions to combine two tables. The longer ebook version of this tutorial includes a dataset and exercise to employ these techniques.”
AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD
New York Times: The Year in Social Media. “Algorithms are getting good, alarmingly so, at feeding you content targeted to your weird and wonderful and even secret interests. Still, a lot of interesting stories end up falling outside our digital castle walls. This list is an attempt to rectify that, revisiting the people, trends, feuds and frenzies that took off on social media platforms in 2023 but might not have broken into your personal World Wide Web.”
Reuters: Alphabet to limit election queries Bard and AI-based search can answer. “Alphabet’s (GOOGL.O) Google said on Tuesday it will restrict the types of election-related queries its chatbot Bard and search generative experience can return responses for, in the run up to 2024 U.S. Presidential election. The restrictions are set to be enforced by early 2024, the company said.”
SECURITY & LEGAL
ProPublica: How Verified Accounts on X Thrive While Spreading Misinformation About the Israel-Hamas Conflict. “With the gutting of content moderation initiatives at X, accounts with blue checks, once a sign of authenticity, are disseminating debunked claims and gaining more followers. Community Notes, X’s fact-checking system, hasn’t scaled sufficiently.”
The Verge: Rite Aid hit with five-year facial recognition ban over ‘reckless’ use. “Rite Aid isn’t allowed to use AI-powered facial recognition technology for another five years as part of a settlement it reached with the Federal Trade Commission. In a complaint filed on Tuesday, the FTC accuses Rite Aid of using facial surveillance systems in a ‘reckless’ manner from 2012 to 2020.”
RESEARCH & OPINION
VentureBeat: Google Gemini is not even as good as GPT-3.5 Turbo, researchers find. “Yes, you read that correctly: Google’s brand new LLM, the one that has been in development for months at least, performs worse at most tasks than OpenAI’s older, less cutting-edge, free model. After all, ChatGPT Plus and Enterprise paying subscribers can already access and use the underlying GPT-4 and GPT-4V (the multimodal offering) LLMs regularly, and have had access to the former for the better part of this year. That’s according to the work of a team of researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and one from an enterprise identified as BerriAI.”
MIT Technology Review: These minuscule pixels are poised to take augmented reality by storm. “Tiny new displays, some small enough to fit on the tip of your finger, will contain micro-LEDs and micro-OLEDs (organic LEDs). They are set to deliver a wave of headsets that may convert even the most ardent AR skeptics. Apple’s Vision Pro, slated for release in 2024, will lead this change—though it might not shake the cyberpunk aesthetic. The fully enclosed headset, vaguely reminiscent of ski goggles, is intended for a mixture of AR and virtual reality (VR) that Apple calls ‘spatial computing.'” Good afternoon, Internet…
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December 21, 2023 at 01:49AM
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