‘After years of negotiations and countless discussions, the final version of the EU AI Act should finally be adopted in mid-July 2024. From then, it will be another 24 months before far-reaching obligations apply for most companies. The AI Act will be the first regulation of algorithms based on “machine learning”. However, authorities around the globe have…

‘The American Bar Association and the ABA Task Force on Law and Artificial Intelligence released the results of its AI and Legal Education Survey, a compilation of insights gathered from law school administrators and faculty regarding the integration of artificial intelligence into legal education.’ Link: https://www.americanbar.org/news/abanews/aba-news-archives/2024/06/aba-task-force-law-and-ai-survey/

‘Law is one of the knowledge domains that are most reliant on textual material. In this age of legal big data, and with the increased availability of legal text online, many researchers started working on the development of legal intelligent systems and applications. Over the last few years, researchers have focused on predicting judicial case…

‘When OpenAI first rolled out the ChatGPT app for Mac, it was exclusive to ChatGPT Plus subscribers. Unless you paid $20 per month, you needed to stick to the web app or the one on your smartphone. As of Tuesday, however, the Mac app is now free for everyone. And, honestly, you should probably give it…

‘Artificial Intelligence (AI) is changing our society and bringing the legal profession with it. The use of Generative AI (GenAI) in legal proceedings has received negative publicity from high profile mishaps in court filings. In one case, attorneys used the publicly available online GenAI tool, ChatGPT, to write a legal brief in which ChatGPT proceeded…

‘The remarkable development of Large Language Models (LLMs) continues to revolutionize various human activities in different societal domains like education, communications, and healthcare. While facilitating the generation of coherent and contextually relevant text across a diverse plethora of topics, LLMs became a set of instruments available in different toolboxes of decision makers. In this way,…

‘The government has published guidance on Responsible AI in Recruitment which focuses on AI systems that are used by employers. The guidance sets out a range of considerations for the procurement and deployment of AI recruitment systems, identifies the potential ethical risks of doing so and outlines how AI assurance mechanisms can support the responsible procurement of…

‘The workforce’s stance on artificial intelligence is generally divided into two camps: One thinks AI will replace jobs and increase income inequality; the other thinks AI will make everyone’s jobs easier and inequities less pronounced.’ Link: https://qz.com/chatgpt-ai-steals-jobs-freelancers-1851557134

‘Researchers at the University of Reading fooled their own professors by secretly submitting AI-generated exam answers that went undetected and got better grades than real students.’ Link: https://www.theguardian.com/education/article/2024/jun/26/researchers-fool-university-markers-with-ai-generated-exam-papers

‘Court View Generation (CVG) plays a vital role in the realm of legal artificial intelligence, which aims to support judges in crafting legal judgment documents. The court view consists of three essential judgment parts: the charge-related, law article-related, and prison term-related parts, each requiring specialized legal knowledge, rendering CVG a challenging task.Although Large Language Models…

‘The UK needs a system for recording misuse and malfunctions in artificial intelligence or ministers risk being unaware of alarming incidents involving the technology, according to a report.’ Link: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/jun/26/artificial-intelligence-misuse-malfunctions-reporting-uk

‘The promise of AI is alluring — optimized productivity, lightning-fast data analysis, and freedom from mundane tasks — and both companies and workers alike are fascinated (and more than a little dumbfounded) by how these tools allow them to do more and better work faster than ever before. Yet in fervor to keep pace with…

‘The company behind the online retail revolution is getting in on the artificial intelligence revolution, too — with a secret weapon.’ Link: https://qz.com/amazon-generative-ai-chatbot-chatgpt-metis-1851558879

‘How will AI improve our lives in the years to come? From its inception six decades ago to its recent exponential growth, futurist Ray Kurzweil highlights AI’s transformative impact on various fields and explains his prediction for the singularity: the point at which human intelligence merges with machine intelligence.’ Link: https://www.ted.com/talks/ray_kurzweil_the_last_6_decades_of_ai_and_what_comes_next

‘As Apple announce the integration of generative AI across their platforms, Aleks and Kevin ask, do we actually know how much energy AI consumes and is it compatible with net zero?’ Link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00208g4?

‘Meta has created a system that can embed hidden signals, known as watermarks, in AI-generated audio clips, which could help in detecting AI-generated content online.’ Link: https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/06/18/1094009/meta-has-created-a-way-to-watermark-ai-generated-speech/

‘AI startup Anthropic on Thursday debuted its updated AI model, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, which it said bests OpenAI’s GPT-4 in important tasks and is twice as fast as its previous model, Claude 3 Opus.’ Link: https://qz.com/anthropic-claude-3-5-sonnet-ai-chatgpt-openai-1851551091

‘The recent commercial release of a new generation of chatbot systems, particularly those leveraging Transformer-based large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT, has caught the world by surprise and sparked debate about their potential consequences for society. While concerns about the existential threat posed by these technologies are often discussed, it is crucial to shift…

‘Lexis+ has made its debut, and Lexis+ AI is set to further the AI journey by adding the GPT component in June 2024. One cannot make the jump to the GPT version (with chat) without first upgrading to Lexis+. This is because Lexis+ relies on an entirely new server to deliver more extensive AI functionality…

‘The governance of artificial intelligence (AI) is at a historical juncture. Legislative acts, global treaties, export controls, and technical standards are now dominating the discourse over what used to be a predominantly market-driven space. Amidst all this frenzy, this paper explains why none of these projects will achieve ‘alignment’ of AI with the prospect of…

‘The problem is, large language models are so good at what they do that what they make up looks right most of the time. And that makes trusting them hard.’ Link: https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/06/18/1093440/what-causes-ai-hallucinate-chatbots/

‘“Three sleepless nights”—that’s what Ethan Mollick, a Wharton associate professor, says a newcomer needs to spend experimenting with tools such as ChatGPT and Midjourney to get up to speed on the current state of generative artificial intelligence. But what’s next for this new technology? How will it evolve over time? And how will it change…

‘Microsoft’s AI chatbot, Copilot, has been steadily growing and adding new features since its introduction last year. (At that time, Microsoft called it Bing Chat.) As with all things AI, it can be difficult to keep up with the updates, changes, and new features, but Microsoft is adding them to Copilot at a steady clip.…

‘Generative AI has taken the world by storm over the last few years, and the world of scholarly communications has not been immune to this. Most discussions in this area address how we can integrate these tools into our workflows, concerns about how researchers and students might misuse the technology or the unauthorised use of…

‘Professional negligence lawyers need to grapple with the question of whether it is negligent to use – or not to use – artificial intelligence (AI), the Master of the Rolls has said.’ Link: https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/vos-ai-will-redefine-contours-of-professional-negligence

‘Chatbots have several features that may stimulate self-disclosure, such as accessibility, anonymity, convenience and their perceived non-judgmental nature. The aim of this study is to investigate if people disclose (more) intimate information to a chatbot, compared to a human, and to what extent this enhances their emotional well-being through feelings of relief. An experiment with…

‘Much like Google, Apple is now exploring how AI can help people in their everyday lives, only Apple has a big focus on privacy. So for the lowdown on Apple Intelligence, read on.’ Link: https://www.techradar.com/computing/artificial-intelligence/apple-intelligence-explained

‘Some companies let you opt out of allowing your content to be used for generative AI. Here’s how to take back (at least a little) control from ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, and more.’ Link: https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-stop-your-data-from-being-used-to-train-ai/

‘Speech-to-text services aim to transcribe input audio as accurately as possible. They increasingly play a role in everyday life, for example in personal voice assistants or in customer-company interactions. We evaluate Open AI’s Whisper, a state-of-the-art automated speech recognition service outperforming industry competitors, as of 2023. While many of Whisper’s transcriptions were highly accurate, we…

‘The rise of Generative AI has raised many questions from the perspective of copyright. From the lens of copyright and database rights, issues revolve not only around the authorship of AI-generated outputs, but also the very process that leads to the generation of these outputs, namely the process of text and data mining (TDM). Does…

‘ICLR have partnered with Canadian law tech developer Jurisage to provide natural language summaries of unreported judgments.’ Link: https://www.iclr.co.uk/products/iclr-4/ai-case-summaries-on-iclr-4/

‘Generative AI tools based on LLMs have had a profound effect on universities and research libraries. The way people find information, do research, and produce academic content is bringing fundamental change to concepts such as authorship and plagiarism. Academic integrity is critically important here and skills are crucial here. Librarians, other university staff and learners…

‘This workshop aims to develop practical awareness and understanding of the problematic nature of using generative AI. Specifically, this workshop aims to develop critical and analytic thinking around the underpinnings of generative AI along with what generative AI (re)produces concerning race and gender.’ Link: https://aldinhe.ac.uk/product/learnhigher-resources/generative-ai-a-problematic-illustration-of-the-intersections-of-racialized-gender-race-and-ethnicity/

‘Recognising the extraordinarily rapid evolution of AI and its broad impact across many sectors, regulators in the UK, EU and globally are moving quickly to ensure that the market remains competitive and that the technology is not used by companies to gain an unfair advantage or harm consumers.’ Link: https://www.squirepattonboggs.com/-/media/files/insights/publications/2024/06/artificial-intelligence-ai-and-competition-law-balancing-innovation-and-regulation/artificial-intelligence-and-antitrust-issues-discussion-paper.pdf

‘Lawyers in the UK are wary of the government stepping in to regulate the profession’s use of artificial intelligence – but not as wary as their transatlantic colleagues, international research has revealed.’ Link: https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/survey-reveals-caution-about-regulation-of-legal-ai/5119965.article

‘The literature on communities of practice demonstrates that a proven way for senior professionals to upskill themselves in the use of new technologies that undermine existing expertise is to learn from junior professionals. It notes that juniors may be better able than seniors to engage in real-time experimentation close to the work itself, and may…

‘Photos of Brazilian kids—sometimes spanning their entire childhood—have been used without their consent to power AI tools, including popular image generators like Stable Diffusion, Human Rights Watch (HRW) warned on Monday.’ Link: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/06/ai-trained-on-photos-from-kids-entire-childhood-without-their-consent/

‘Judge Kevin Newsom of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals at Atlanta revealed his innovative approach to legal research, using the AI tool ChatGPT to understand the ordinary meaning of “landscaping.”’ Link: https://www.canadianlawyermag.com/news/international/us-judge-explores-ai-use-for-legal-definitions-advocates-for-broader-adoption/386758

‘Adobe, maker of Photoshop and Creative Cloud, has run afoul of its user base with changes to its terms of service that, among other things, give it the right to look at your files and existing projects in the name of content moderation.’ Link: https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/adobe-defends-changes-in-its-terms-of-service-amid-gen-ai-explosion/

‘Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to both exacerbate and ameliorate existing socioeconomic inequalities. In this article, we provide a state-of-the-art interdisciplinary overview of the potential impacts of generative AI on (mis)information and three information-intensive domains: work, education, and healthcare. Our goal is to highlight how generative AI could worsen existing inequalities while illuminating…

‘Three-quarters of lawyers agree that using generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) helps them “get to a first draft quicker”, according to a report on trials run by a leading City law firm.’ Link: https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/genai-helps-lawyers-overcome-blank-page-syndrome

‘Recently, there has been considerable interest in large language models: machine learning systems which produce human-like text and dialogue. Applications of these systems have been plagued by persistent inaccuracies in their output; these are often called “AI hallucinations”. We argue that these falsehoods, and the overall activity of large language models, is better understood as bullshit in…

‘As part of its ‘pro-innovation’ approach to artificial intelligence (AI), the UK has left public sector AI procurement and deployment to ‘regulation by contract’ based on thin guidance. Borrowing from the description of AI ‘hallucinations’ as plausible but incorrect answers given with high confidence by AI systems, I argue that this is a ‘regulatory hallucination’:…