Here’s another set of ten stories that I didn’t get to this week! It’s the kitchen sink for February 23, 2024 – with another brand-new meme from Gates Dogfish!

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Here is the kitchen sink for February 23, 2024 of ten stories that I didn’t get to this week, with a comment from me about each:

Beyond The AI Glitz And Glamour, Practical Implications: The first two stories are ones I just noticed this week, so I’m counting them. In this one, Stephen Embry has a great write-up of Legalweek 2024 on Above the Law, with a focus on the “hard-core sales pitches around generative AI” with the “one thing that the Gen AI titans never mention” about their offerings. Find out what that is via the link!

Few mergers emerge unscathed from FTC, DOJ second requests: Why are so many making a big deal about handling discovery for second requests? Here’s one reason: “Almost three-quarters of proposed mergers that are subject to a second request under the federal government’s pre-merger review process are voluntarily restructured or abandoned”. Wow.

OpenAI collapses media reality with Sora, a photorealistic AI video generator: This is absolutely mind-blowing and the article shows some amazing videos – that are all AI created. Deepfakes, anyone? “This could be the ‘holy shit’ moment of AI,” wrote Tom Warren of The Verge. No shit. (Hey, he said it first!) 😉

Reddit sells training data to unnamed AI company ahead of IPO: That “unnamed” company is apparently Google, so the Reddit data wasn’t responsible for ChatGPT going “off the rails” earlier this week.

Rusty Texts: Sending Privileged Information to Clients: Interesting write-up by Michael Berman, where the attorney for Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, the armorer in the well-known “Rust” shooting case, texted with his client, the armorer. The texts reportedly included defense strategies. After searches of the cell phone, they came into the prosecutors’ custody. Lesson learned on texting with your client and then consenting to a search of the device with no limitations.

Limit Your Inputs to Improve Your Output: Calming the Frazzled Mind: Let’s face it, we all get distracted and doing so diminishes our productivity. There are several great tips here for reducing the distractions.

Inside the Funding Frenzy at Anthropic, One of A.I.’s Hottest Start-Ups: Put together a major genAI model and people will throw billions of dollars at you – to the tune of $7.3 billion – in a single year! 😮 However, Nvidia may be the big winner in all the AI frenzy – revenue more than tripled, and profits rose ninefold! 😮 😮

Google Is Giving Away Some of the A.I. That Powers Chatbots: The company said in a blog post that it was releasing two A.I. language models that could help outside companies and independent software developers build online chatbots similar to Google’s own chatbot. Called Gemma 2B and Gemma 7B, they are not Google’s most powerful A.I. technologies, but the company argued that they rivaled many of the industry’s leading systems. Hmmm.

Generative AI and the Hype Cycle: What Does It Means for E-Discovery?: Gartner says Generative AI is at the “Peak of Inflated Expectations”. Mike Quartararo agrees and says: “we need to reset our expectations and do the hard work”. Agreed, though I see some eDiscovery benefits being realized already.

Federal Judge: CVS Health Job Candidate Has Standing in Failure to Notify Use of AI-Powered ‘Lie Detector Screening’: A job applicant accused the company of subjecting him and other interviewees to an artificial intelligence-powered lie detector test without proper notification and the Court refused to throw out the case. Honest! 😀

Hope you enjoyed the kitchen sink for February 23, 2024! Back next week with another edition!

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