Here’s the kitchen sink for January 3, 2025 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 January 3, 2025 of ten-ish stories that I didn’t get to this week (the first kitchen sink of the new year, no less!), with a comment from me about each:
12 days of OpenAI: The Ars Technica recap: Not only is this a useful recap of OpenAI’s much hyped event from Ars Technica, but they asked ChatGPT what it thought about the whole series of announcements, and it was skeptical that the event even took place. 🤣
2024: The year AI drove everyone crazy: Another recap from Ars Technica of weird AI stories from 2024. Some of the stories I had seen and even covered (like this one, this one and this one), but others (like the “great Wonka incident”, “mutant rat genitals” and robot dogs hunting people with AI-guided rifles!), I had not. Wild stuff.
Healthcare Providers Lose Nearly $2M Per Day Due to Cyberattack-Induced Downtime: Specifically related to ransomware attacks, which impact the healthcare we all receive. Yet another stat that illustrates just how big the cybersecurity challenge is these days.
PwC is using ‘prompting parties’ to teach employees how to use AI in a low-stakes setting: Forget Times Square on NYE, I’d rather go to one of these parties! Hey, I used to work for PwC a long time ago (before they added the “C”), can I get in? 😇
Your Company Needs Small Language Models: The best in-depth discussion I’ve seen yet on SLMs and how they can be preferable to LLMs in certain situations. Complete with several graphics and diagrams – a must read! Hat tip to Tom O’Connor for the heads up! 🎅
Google Is Being Out-Googled by AI “Searches” Such as ChatGPT: Kevin O’Keefe succinctly discusses how ChatGPT may be usurping Google in web search (even Google is worried). Failing to be on top of AI can be costly. Just ask Intel.
Schools Find Their First Niche for AI Tools: I write a lot about AI challenges – here’s a story about AI doing something really good for people: helping students with disabilities (like dyslexia) keep up with their classmates! 😍
Treasury Breach: Chinese Cyber Espionage Exposes Federal Vulnerabilities: It’s not just healthcare organizations getting hacked, it’s our own Federal government. As Rob Robinson notes in his coverage on ComplexDiscovery: “The attack permitted the unauthorized acquisition of certain unclassified materials, though Treasury officials have been quick to address concerns about ongoing vulnerabilities.” That’s great, but what did the Chinese get before that happened? 😮
Data Breach Lawsuit Against Byte Federal Among 1,500 Targeting Companies in 2024: Once more into the (data) breach! See what I did there? 😉 Hey, we can either laugh or cry! Regardless, this is just one of the 1,500 federal data breach lawsuits filed in 2024. Wow.
An AI system has reached human level on a test for ‘general intelligence’. Here’s what that means: It means we’re screwed!! Just kidding. 😉 What it really means is that OpenAI’s o3 system scored 85% on the ARC-AGI benchmark, well above the previous AI best score of 55% and on par with the average human score. Does this mean we’re at AGI, or close to it? We’ll see.
The Workstream of eDiscovery: Considering Processes and Tasks: When did Rob Robinson have time to put this together?!? Regardless, it’s WAY beyond a detailed checklist of processes and tasks for eDiscovery – it gets into how generative AI can be applied to those processes and tasks and how much of eDiscovery spend can benefit. Make sure you scroll to the bottom to see all the different tables he has put together!
Hope you enjoyed the kitchen sink for January 3, 2025! Back next week with another edition!
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