Here’s the kitchen sink for October 25, 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 October 25, 2024 of eleven stories that I didn’t get to this week, with a comment from me about each:
The Future of AI Is Here—But Are You Ready? Learn the OECD’s Blueprint for Ethical AI: I love this post from Ralph Losey on the EDRM blog talking about guiding principles for AI ethics from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) (which has a great AI resource, by the way).
AI-Powered News Site Accidentally Accuses District Attorney of Murder: Oops! Guess journalists like me are not being replaced just yet! 😉 Hat tip to Niki Black for the heads up on this one.
Dilatory Objections to Corporate Designee Topics Were Too Late; “Blanket” De-Designation Request Was Denied: Another interesting case from Michael Berman, covered on the EDRM blog. This one shows that even some government attorneys need to get their eDiscovery act together.
A new ‘AI scientist’ can write science papers without any human input. Here’s why that’s a problem: I think the title explains why it’s a problem, don’t you?
Generative AI doesn’t have to be a power hog after all: Apparently, more businesses are looking to leverage AI internally, with their own data, and using small custom language models, which doesn’t require massive banks of powerful systems. Hopefully, we’ll see a lot more of that! 🙂
Anthropic publicly releases AI tool that can take over the user’s mouse cursor: And when you ask for it back, it says: “I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that.” That joke never gets old! 😀
Meta Reintroduces Facial Recognition to Combat “Celeb Bait” Scams: It’s Meta, so what could go wrong from a privacy perspective? After all, look how well they did with their Ray Bans! 😉 Hopefully, this one – covered by Rob Robinson – turns out a lot better.
Marc Benioff rails against Microsoft’s copilot: OK, Copilot has taken a lot of flak the past couple of weeks, including from me here and here. But given that Salesforce’s boss has a competing product, I think we can take this one with a grain – if not a whole shaker – of salt.
Best Practices for Ethical AI Use in the Workplace: A Guide from the Department of Labor: Rob Robinson covers this very important topic here, involving the Department of Labor’s framework, which “centers on eight core principles designed to prioritize employee welfare and protect workplace rights as AI use grows”. Those eight core principles are simple and straightforward, and they literally apply to everyone.
Google, Microsoft, and Perplexity promote scientific racism in AI search results: Oh boy. Apparently, a researcher with UK-based anti-racism group Hope Not Hate has found that AI-infused search engines from Google, Microsoft, and Perplexity have been surfacing deeply racist and widely debunked research promoting race science and the idea that white people are genetically superior to nonwhite people. In other words, they’re working more like traditional search engines all the time!
A Love Letter to the E-Discovery Industry: Normally, I list these in chronological order, but I decided to end with this post from Jerry Bui (who just started his own business!), because it’s a ray of sunshine all eDiscovery professionals can relate to! Thanks, Jerry!
Hope you enjoyed the kitchen sink for October 25, 2024! Back next week with another edition!
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