Here’s the kitchen sink for April 19, 2024 of ten stories that I didn’t get to this week – with another brand-new meme from Gates Dogfish!

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Here is the kitchen sink for April 19, 2024 of ten stories that I didn’t get to this week, with a comment from me about each:

ComplexDiscovery Launches Spring 2024 Business Confidence Survey for eDiscovery, Cybersecurity, and Information Governance Professionals: Actually, eleven items because I’m promoting Rob Robinson’s quarterly business confidence survey on ComplexDiscovery again this week. I encourage you to participate – the more that do, the more interesting the results will be!

OCR and Generative AI: what could possibly go wrong?: Apparently, a lot, according to this guy. An excellent discussion of some of the challenges associated with optical character recognition (OCR) and whether the use of large language models (LLMs) can help. Hat tip to Stephen Abram.

US appellate judge calls bans on AI use by lawyers ‘misplaced’: Another article from further back than one week where U.S. Circuit Judge John Nalbandian argued that bans on lawyers using AI programs like ChatGPT to conduct research were “misplaced” efforts that would also bar potentially beneficial uses of the technology by litigants with limited means. Hat tip to Judge Ralph Artigliere.

Meta’s AI chief: LLMs will never reach human-level intelligence: A counter-point to Elon Musk’s prediction that it will be smarter than people next year from Yann LeCun, Meta’s chief AI scientist and a winner of the prestigious Turing Award. Though he does expect that “Eventually, machines will surpass human intelligence”, but with a different architecture.

Chart: AI isn’t a major job disruptor (at least on paper): Stephen Abram shares a chart that shows only 383 jobs lost to AI as the stated reason in the first three months of this year. Of course, how many of the 66,302 jobs lost to “cost cutting” can be attributed to AI? No idea.

A.I. Has a Measurement Problem: Kevin Roose of the New York Times notes that “[t]here’s no Good Housekeeping seal for A.I. chatbots” and “[i]nstead, we’re left to rely on the claims of A.I. companies, which often use vague, fuzzy phrases”. The best test we have today? The “SAT for chatbots” — is a test known as Massive Multitask Language Understanding, or MMLU, which was released in 2020, consists of a collection of roughly 16,000 multiple-choice questions covering dozens of academic subjects. Interesting! 😀

Can ChatGPT edit fiction? 4 professional editors asked AI to do their job – and it ruined their short story: ChatGPT isn’t cut out to be an Editor (he said with glee!). 😉

The Future is Now: Embracing AI for Legacy Software Overhaul: Rob Robinson discusses how the rise of AI offers a pathway to modernization for legacy systems with less disruption and enhanced efficiency. They’d better embrace it, or they’re more likely to be replaced than ever.

There’s No Right or Wrong Answer – But There Are Mistakes: On the EDRM blog, Michael Berman beats me to a case I plan to cover next month. So, why mention it here? Because of this quote: “The Hon. Andrew Peck (ret.) has light-heartedly often referred to ‘Rule 1.1’ which is ‘don’t piss off the Judge.’  This case appears to be a good example.” You’ll undoubtedly get to hear Judge Peck say that next Tuesday on our monthly case law webinar about some case!

Bots dominate internet activity, account for nearly half of all traffic: 49.6% in 2023, to be exact. And the proportion of web traffic associated with bad bots grew to 32% in 2023. 😮 Bad bots, bad bots, whatcha gonna do? Whatcha gonna do when they come for you? Protect yourself (hopefully). 😐

From Silicon Valley to Sacramento: California’s Bold AI Regulatory Framework: Rob Robinson discusses California’s proactive stance on AI regulation and how it may “serve as a blueprint” for national and international AI governance.

Hope you enjoyed the kitchen sink for April 19, 2024! Back next week with another edition!

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