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NEW RESOURCES
National Diet Library, Japan: The NDL Launches a new service: Mina Search. “The NDL has launched a new search service called the National Diet Library Materials Search for Persons with Disabilities, or Mina Search for short…. Mina Search is designed specifically to provide those who are blind, visually impaired, dyslexic, or otherwise print disabled with a single interface from which to search for reading materials in a variety of accessible formats, including braille, DAISY, text data, large print books, easy-to-read books, e-books, and barrier-free videos.”
TWEAKS AND UPDATES
Engadget: Google Bard Advanced is coming, but it likely won’t be free. “Google Bard Advanced is coming, and it may represent the company’s first attempt to charge for an AI chatbot. The code on Bard’s website shows the opportunity to get three months free of Bard Advanced — implying that it will come at a cost after that.”
The Verge: OpenAI will open its custom ChatGPT store next week. “GPT Store, where users can sell and share customized AI agents based on OpenAI’s large language models, will officially launch next week, OpenAI said in an email to people signed on as GPT Builders. The email asked users to double-check that their GPT creations meet brand guidelines and reminded people to make their GPTs public.”
AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD
Mercer University: Science class uses ChatGPT, TikTok to create disease awareness campaigns. “Dr. Sabrina Walthall, professor of science, teaches BIOL 210: Biology of Disease each fall. As part of the course’s service-learning component, students create public awareness campaigns about various diseases. In the past, that involved displaying posters and pamphlets at the Henry County Regional Academic Center or creating infographics to post on the back of bathroom stall doors. Last fall, Dr. Walthall decided to do something different. She had students harness the power of ChatGPT, a generative AI tool, and the social media platform TikTok to share their messages.”
New York Times: Happy Puppies and Silly Geese: Pushing the Limits of A.I. Absurdity. “Though A.I.-generated images can often unsettle with their uncanny realism — think the pope in a Balenciaga puffer jacket — many are finding joy in a new form of low-stakes image tinkering. This fall, ChatGPT released an update that allowed people to enter prompts for more detailed images than before, and it wasn’t long before some began to push the chatbot to its limits.”
PetaPixel: Historical Photo Archive of the Pacific Northwest to be Made Public. “A photographer who was integral to documenting Washington State will have his vast archive preserved and made available to the public thanks to a $25,000 grant. Asahel Curtis was an active photographer in the Pacific Northwest from the 1880s to 1941 and his collection is described as an ‘invaluable resource’ by the Washington State Historical Society (WSHS).”
SECURITY & LEGAL
TorrentFreak: All DMCA Notices Filed Against TorrentFreak in 2023 Were Bogus. “New Year’s resolutions come in all shapes and sizes, with an equal number of excuses to explain what went wrong. From today, January 1st 2024, here at TorrentFreak we’re quietly hoping that anti-piracy companies will at least try to stop targeting us with bogus DMCA notices. At the start of 2023, the main culprits managed less than three weeks while others were still sending them two days ago.”
9to5 Mac: Apps will be reporting your earnings to tax authorities from this week. “Many people are either unaware of the potential tax implications of app-generated income, or deliberately fail to report it. To counter both problems, the 38 members of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) have signed up to a new agreement under which app owners will automatically share your earnings with tax authorities in your country. OECD members include the US, UK, many European countries, and others.”
PhilStar: PNP cracking down on content creators destabilizing government. “After having monitored attempts by various persons to use the Philippine National Police against the government, PNP chief Gen. Benjamin Acorda Jr. yesterday ordered a crackdown on content creators spreading disinformation on social media platforms to destabilize the Marcos administration.”
RESEARCH & OPINION
Bloomberg: Former LA Mall Goes From Empty Google Space to UCLA Science Park. “The University of California is paying $700 million for a former Los Angeles shopping mall that had been redeveloped as offices for Alphabet Inc.’s Google, with the school system planning to convert the campus to a medical and engineering research park.”
University of Massachusetts Amherst: UMass Amherst Researchers Bring Dream Of Bug-Free Software One Step Closer To Reality. “A team of computer scientists led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst recently announced a new method for automatically generating whole proofs that can be used to prevent software bugs and verify that the underlying code is correct. This new method, called Baldur, leverages the artificial intelligence power of Large Language Models (LLMs), and, when combined with the state-of-the-art tool Thor, yields unprecedented efficacy of nearly 66%.”
TechCrunch: Google outlines new methods for training robots with video and large language models. “2024 is going to be a huge year for the cross-section of generative AI/large foundational models and robotics. There’s a lot of excitement swirling around the potential for various applications, ranging from learning to product design. Google’s DeepMind Robotics researchers are one of a number of teams exploring the space’s potential. In a blog post today, the team is highlighting ongoing research designed to give robotics a better understanding of precisely what it is we humans want out of them.” Good morning, Internet…
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January 5, 2024 at 06:29PM
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