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NEW RESOURCES
Tulane University: Tulane showcases AI expertise through new online hub. “The website also includes guidelines for ethical and responsible use of AI, a news section highlighting AI research at Tulane and a section where the Tulane community can learn about upcoming workshops and training opportunities. In the coming months, the site will feature Tulane’s latest findings on how artificial intelligence can better support its research and teaching missions as well as its students and faculty. It will also spotlight how documentation and proposals are prepared via AI and how data and other scholarly materials are accessed and organized.”
TWEAKS AND UPDATES
New York Times: From Unicorns to Zombies: Tech Start-Ups Run Out of Time and Money. “WeWork raised more than $11 billion in funding as a private company. Olive AI, a health care start-up, gathered $852 million. Convoy, a freight start-up, raised $900 million. And Veev, a home construction start-up, amassed $647 million. In the last six weeks, they all filed for bankruptcy or shut down. They are the most recent failures in a tech start-up collapse that investors say is only beginning.”
Stony Brook University: Stony Brook University Libraries Is Now A Member Of Hathitrust Digital Library!. “Stony Brook University Libraries is pleased to announce that we are a HathiTrust member library. We are now part of a group of 200+ libraries and institutions that comprise the HathiTrust community! HathiTrust provides access to more than 18 million digital items.”
Ars Technica: Google announces April 2024 shutdown date for Google Podcasts. “Google Podcasts has been sitting on Google’s death row for a few months now since the September announcement. Now, a new support article details Google’s plans to kill the product, with a shutdown coming in April 2024. Google Podcasts (2016–2024) is Google’s third attempt at a podcasting app after the Google Reader-powered Google Listen (2009–2012) and Google Play Music Podcasts (2016–2020). The product is being shut down in favor of podcast app No. 4, YouTube Podcasts, which launched in 2022.”
AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD
Fortune: FabFitFun, a $1 billion subscription box startup, frantically backpedals after a profane, pro–Elon Musk ad bombs. “FabFitFun turned into a dumpster fire just in time for the holiday season. The millennial-favorite subscription box company went viral this week when it posted a controversial ad on Elon Musk’s X (formerly Twitter)—but it blew up for all the wrong reasons. The meltdown over what appeared to be a badly misjudged attempt to piggyback off a viral Musk moment reads as a case study in how not to approach internet marketing.”
NiemanLab: The press adopts a new level of transparency around images. “The press has often been light on contextual information and details about the images they use. Typically, publications only provide the reader with a tiny gray caption, perhaps with a name and maybe some context related to its use or production method or where it was found, such as ‘illustration,’ ‘archival photo,’ ‘photo,’ or ‘social media.’ … A newfound level of transparency around images could be vital in educating the press and the public about images and their credibility.”
TechCrunch: Early impressions of Google’s Gemini aren’t great. “This week, Google took the wraps off of Gemini, its new flagship generative AI model meant to power a range of products and services including Bard, Google’s ChatGPT competitor. In blog posts and press materials, Google touted Gemini’s superior architecture and capabilities, claiming that the model meets or exceeds the performance of other leading gen AI models like OpenAI’s GPT-4. But the anecdotal evidence suggests otherwise.”
SECURITY & LEGAL
Bloomberg: Google Takes Aim at the EU’s ‘Flawed’ Ad Tech Break Up Threat. “Alphabet Inc.’s Google said that the European Union’s threat to break up its profitable ad tech arm was ‘flawed’ as it formally took aim at the bloc’s allegations of anticompetitive conduct.”
Tubefilter: Congress is putting off its plan to regulate TikTok until 2024 (but GOP hopefuls still have takes). “TikTok continues to face criticism from American politicians, but the Congressional plan to regulate the app is going on the back burner — at least until 2024. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA), who heads the Senate Commerce Committee, told Reuters that Congress will not take up TikTok-oriented legislation until the calendar turns over to a new year.”
RESEARCH & OPINION
Robb Knight: Please, Expose your RSS. “Earlier this week I had a need to manually find a bunch of people’s RSS feed links. It seemed simple enough: go to their website and look for an RSS/Subscribe link but I was surprised to find that a lot of people don’t have a link anywhere to their feed. Even if people only ever add your website into their feed reader and let the app find the RSS feed (see below for more info on this), showing an RSS link reminds people that RSS exists, a win for the open web.”
University of Missouri: Virtual reality simulations can help autistic people complete real-world tasks, MU study finds. “Many people associate virtual reality headsets with interactive video games, but a researcher at the University of Missouri is using them for something far more important — helping autistic people navigate public transportation on college campuses. MU researcher Noah Glaser — in collaboration with Matthew Schmidt, an associate professor at the University of Georgia, and others — partnered with a program at the University of Cincinnati on a pair of studies geared toward providing autistic people virtual training opportunities to practice using a public bus to get around town.”
Ohio State University: ChatGPT often won’t defend its answers – even when it is right. “A team at The Ohio State University challenged large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT to a variety of debate-like conversations in which a user pushed back when the chatbot presented a correct answer. Through experimenting with a broad range of reasoning puzzles including math, common sense and logic, the study found that when presented with a challenge, the model was often unable to defend its correct beliefs, and instead blindly believed invalid arguments made by the user.” Good morning, Internet…
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December 10, 2023 at 06:31PM
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