Video, Images and Sounds – Good Tools #14 — from goodtools.substack.com by Robin Good
Specifically in this issue:
- Free Image Libraries
- Image Search Engines
- Free Illustrations
- Free Icons
- Free Stock Video Footage
- Free Music for Video and Podcasts
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by Daniel Christian
On 01/12/2024,
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CES 2024: Unveiling The Future Of Legal Through Consumer Innovations — from abovethelaw.com by Stephen Embry
The ripple effects on the legal industry are real.
The Emerging Role of Smart TVs
Boothe and Comiskey claim that our TVs will become even smarter and better connected to the web and the internet. Our TVs will become an intelligent center for a variety of applications powered through our smartphone. TVs will be able to direct things like appliances and security cameras. Perhaps even more importantly, our TVs can become e-commerce centers, allowing us to speak with them and conduct business.
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This increased TV capability means that the TV could become a more dominant mode of working and computing for lawyers. As TVs become more integrated with the internet and capable of functioning as communication hubs, they could potentially replace traditional computing devices in legal settings. With features like voice control and pattern recognition, TVs could serve as efficient tools for such things as document preparation and client meetings.
From DSC:
Now imagine the power of voice-enabled chatbots and the like. We could be videoconferencing (or holograming) with clients, and be able to access information at the same time. Language translation — like that in the Timekettle product — will be built in.
I also wonder how this type of functionality will play out in lifelong learning from our living rooms.
Also, some other legaltech-related items:
Are Tomorrow’s Lawyers Prepared for Legal’s Tech Future? 4 Recent Trends Shaping Legal Education | Legaltech News — from law.com (behind paywall)
Legal Tech Predictions for 2024: Embracing a New Era of Innovation — from jdsupra.com
As we step into 2024, the legal industry continues to be reshaped by technological advancements. This year promises to bring new developments that could revolutionize how legal professionals work and interact with clients. Here are key predictions for legal tech in 2024:
Miss the Legaltech Week 2023 Year-in-Review Show? Here’s the Recording — from lawnext.com by Bob Ambrogi
Last Friday was Legaltech Week’s year-end show, in which our panel of journalists and bloggers picked the year’s top stories in legal tech and innovation.
So what were the top stories? Well, if you missed it, no worries. Here’s the video:
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by Daniel Christian
Our AI predictions for 2024 — from superhuman.ai by Zain Kahn
ALSO: How to create videos with ChatGPT
- AI-generated video becomes a reality
- AI will become an essential skill for job seekers, as employers rush to adopt AI
- AI will unlock new use cases for smartphones, as more efficient models enable AI features on smaller devices
- AI models will become smaller, cheaper and multimodal
- Expect drama — a lot more drama
Morgan Stanley predicts that AI will affect 40% of the workforce in the next 3 years.
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OpenAI’s app store for GPTs will launch next week — from techcrunch.com by Kyle Wiggers
OpenAI plans to launch a store for GPTs, custom apps based on its text-generating AI models (e.g. GPT-4), sometime in the coming week.
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The GPT Store was announced last year during OpenAI’s first annual developer conference, DevDay, but delayed in December — almost certainly due to the leadership shakeup that occurred in November, just after the initial announcement.
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by Daniel Christian
Survey Results Predict Top Legal Technology Trends for 2024 — from jdsupra.com
In the 2023 Litigation Support Trend Survey, U.S. Legal Support asked lawyers and legal professionals what technology trends they observed in 2023, and how they expect their use of technology to change in 2024.
Now, the results are in—check out the findings below.
Topics included:
- Use of Artificial Intelligence
- Prevalence of Remote Depositions
- Digital Reporting
Speaking of legaltech and/or how emerging technologies are impacting the legal realm, also see:
? Voice Cloning in Law: ? A Brave New World of Sound!
In my latest blog, “The Deepfake Dilemma: Navigating Voice Cloning in the Legal System,” I tackle the complex challenges posed by voice cloning technology in the justice system. Discover the challenges, risks, and ethical… pic.twitter.com/Jj5u51u1Ia
— Judge Scott Schlegel (@Judgeschlegel) January 3, 2024
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Learners’ Edition: AI-powered Coaching, Professional Certifications + Inspiring conversations about mastering your learning & speaking skills — from linkedin.com by Tomer Cohen
Excerpts:
1. Your own AI-powered coaching
Learners can go into LinkedIn Learning and ask a question or explain a challenge they are currently facing at work (we’re focusing on areas within Leadership and Management to start). AI-powered coaching will pull from the collective knowledge of our expansive LinkedIn Learning library and, instantaneously, offer advice, examples, or feedback that is personalized to the learner’s skills, job, and career goals.
What makes us so excited about this launch is we can now take everything we as LinkedIn know about people’s careers and how they navigate them and help accelerate them with AI.
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3. Learn exactly what you need to know for your next job
When looking for a new job, it’s often the time we think about refreshing our LinkedIn profiles. It’s also a time we can refresh our skills. And with skill sets for jobs having changed by 25% since 2015 – with the number expected to increase by 65% by 2030– keeping our skills a step ahead is one of the most important things we can do to stand out.
There are a couple of ways we’re making it easier to learn exactly what you need to know for your next job:
When you set a job alert, in addition to being notified about open jobs, we’ll recommend learning courses and Professional Certificate offerings to help you build the skills needed for that role.
When you view a job, we recommend specific courses to help you build the required skills. If you have LinkedIn Learning access through your company or as part of a Premium subscription, you can follow the skills for the job, that way we can let you know when we launch new courses for those skills and recommend you content on LinkedIn that better aligns to your career goals.
2024 Edtech Predictions from Edtech Insiders — from edtechinsiders.substack.com by Alex Sarlin, Ben Kornell, and Sarah Morin
Omni-modal AI, edtech funding prospects, higher ed wake up calls, focus on career training, and more!
Alex: I talked to the 360 Learning folks at one point and they had this really interesting epiphany, which is basically that it’s been almost impossible for every individual company in the past to create a hierarchy of skills and a hierarchy of positions and actually organize what it looks like for people to move around and upskill within the company and get to new paths.
Until now. AI actually can do this very well. It can take not only job description data, but it can take actual performance data. It can actually look at what people do on a daily basis and back fit that to training, create automatic training based on it.
From DSC:
I appreciated how they addressed K-12, higher ed, and the workforce all in one posting. Nice work. We don’t need siloes. We need more overall design thinking re: our learning ecosystems — as well as more collaborations. We need more on-ramps and pathways in a person’s learning/career journey.
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by Daniel Christian
The biggest things that happened in AI this year — from superhuman.ai by Zain Kahn
January:
- Microsoft raises eyebrows with a huge $10 Billion investment in OpenAI.
February:
- Meta launches Llama 2, their open-source rival to OpenAI’s models.
- OpenAI announces ChatGPT Plus, a paid version of their chatbot.
- Microsoft announces a new AI-powered Bing Search.
March:
- OpenAI announces the powerful GPT-4 model, still considered to be the gold standard.
- Midjourney releases V5, which brings AI-powered image generation one step closer to reality.
- Microsoft launches Copilot for Microsoft 365.
- Google launches Bard, its rival to ChatGPT.
…and more
AI 2023: A Year in Review — from stefanbauschard.substack.com by Stefan Bauschard
2023 developments in AI and a hint of what they are building toward
Some of the items that Stefan includes in his posting include:
- ChatGPT and other language models that generate text.
- Image generators.
- Video generators.
- AI models that that can read, hear, and speak.
- AI models that can see.
- Improving models.
- “Multimodal” models.
- Training on specific content.
- Reasoning & planning.
- …and several others
The Dictionary.com Word of the Year is “hallucinate.” — from content.dictionary.com by Nick Norlen and Grant Barrett; via The Rundown AI
hallucinate
[ huh–loo-suh-neyt ]
verb
(of artificial intelligence) to produce false information contrary to the intent of the user and present it as if true and factual. Example: When chatbots hallucinate, the result is often not just inaccurate but completely fabricated.
Soon, every employee will be both AI builder and AI consumer — from zdnet.com by Joe McKendrick, via Robert Gibson on LinkedIn
“Standardized tools and platforms as well as advanced low- or no-code tech may enable all employees to become low-level engineers,” suggests a recent report.
The time could be ripe for a blurring of the lines between developers and end-users, a recent report out of Deloitte suggests. It makes more business sense to focus on bringing in citizen developers for ground-level programming, versus seeking superstar software engineers, the report’s authors argue, or — as they put it — “instead of transforming from a 1x to a 10x engineer, employees outside the tech division could be going from zero to one.”
Along these lines, see:
- TECH TRENDS 2024 — from deloitte.com
Six emerging technology trends demonstrate that in an age of generative machines, it’s more important than ever for organizations to maintain an integrated business strategy, a solid technology foundation, and a creative workforce.
UK Supreme Court rules AI is not an inventor — from theverge.com by Emilia David
The ruling follows a similar decision denying patent registrations naming AI as creators.
The UK Supreme Court ruled that AI cannot get patents, declaring it cannot be named as an inventor of new products because the law considers only humans or companies to be creators.
The Times Sues OpenAI and Microsoft Over A.I. Use of Copyrighted Work — from nytimes.com by Michael M. Grynbaum and Ryan Mac
The New York Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement on Wednesday, opening a new front in the increasingly intense legal battle over the unauthorized use of published work to train artificial intelligence technologies.
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The suit does not include an exact monetary demand. But it says the defendants should be held responsible for “billions of dollars in statutory and actual damages” related to the “unlawful copying and use of The Times’s uniquely valuable works.” It also calls for the companies to destroy any chatbot models and training data that use copyrighted material from The Times.
On this same topic, also see:
? The historic NYT v. @OpenAI lawsuit filed this morning, as broken down by me, an IP and AI lawyer, general counsel, and longtime tech person and enthusiast.
Tl;dr – It’s the best case yet alleging that generative AI is copyright infringement. Thread. ? pic.twitter.com/Zqbv3ekLWt
— Cecilia Ziniti (@CeciliaZin) December 27, 2023
Apple’s iPhone Design Chief Enlisted by Jony Ive, Sam Altman to Work on AI Devices — from bloomberg.com by Mark Gurman (behind paywall)
- Design executive Tang Tan is set to leave Apple in February
- Tan will join Ive’s LoveFrom design studio, work on AI project
AI 2023: Chatbots Spark New Tools — from heatherbcooper.substack.com by Jeather Cooper
ChatGPT and Other Chatbots
The arrival of ChatGPT sparked tons of new AI tools and changed the way we thought about using a chatbot in our daily lives.
Chatbots like ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Bing Chat can help content creators by quickly generating ideas, outlines, drafts, and full pieces of content, allowing creators to produce more high-quality content in less time.
These AI tools boost efficiency and creativity in content production across formats like blog posts, social captions, newsletters, and more.
Microsoft’s next Surface laptops will reportedly be its first true ‘AI PCs’ — from theverge.com by Emma Roth
Next year’s Surface Laptop 6 and Surface Pro 10 will feature Arm and Intel options, according to Windows Central.
Microsoft is getting ready to upgrade its Surface lineup with new AI-enabled features, according to a report from Windows Central. Unnamed sources told the outlet the upcoming Surface Pro 10 and Surface Laptop 6 will come with a next-gen neural processing unit (NPU), along with Intel and Arm-based options.
How one of the world’s oldest newspapers is using AI to reinvent journalism — from theguardian.com by Alexandra Topping
Berrow’s Worcester Journal is one of several papers owned by the UK’s second biggest regional news publisher to hire ‘AI-assisted’ reporters
With the AI-assisted reporter churning out bread and butter content, other reporters in the newsroom are freed up to go to court, meet a councillor for a coffee or attend a village fete, says the Worcester News editor, Stephanie Preece.
“AI can’t be at the scene of a crash, in court, in a council meeting, it can’t visit a grieving family or look somebody in the eye and tell that they’re lying. All it does is free up the reporters to do more of that,” she says. “Instead of shying away from it, or being scared of it, we are saying AI is here to stay – so how can we harness it?”
This year, I watched AI change the world in real time.
From what happened, I have no doubts that the coming years will be the most transformative period in the history of humankind.
Here’s the full timeline of AI in 2023 (January-December):
January 15: ChatGPT becomes the… pic.twitter.com/przosHYiLQ
— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) December 29, 2023
What to Expect in AI in 2024 — from hai.stanford.edu by
Seven Stanford HAI faculty and fellows predict the biggest stories for next year in artificial intelligence.
Topics include:
- White Collar Work Shifts
- Deepfake Proliferation
- GPUs Shortage
- More Helpful Agents
- Hopes for U.S. Regulation
- Asking Big Questions, Applying New Policies
- Companies Will Navigate Complicated Regulations
Addendum on 1/2/24:
- 2024 AI Predictions: Material Progress with Societal and Educational Disruptions — from stefanbauschard.substack.com by Stefan Bauschard
These are my predictions for 2024, focused on AI’s likely technological advances, how AI will impact society, and what developments in the education sector relate to AI.
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Microsoft New Future of Work Report 2023 — from microsoft.com by various authors; via Stefan Bauschard
Throughout 2023, AI and the future of work have frequently been on the metaphorical – and often literal – front page around the world. There have been many excellent articles about the ways in which work may change as LLMs are increasingly integrated into our lives. As such, in this year’s report we focus specifically on areas that we think deserve additional attention or where there is research that has been done at Microsoft that offers a unique perspective. This is a report that should be read as a complement to the existing literature, rather than as a synthesis of all of it.
This is a rare time, one in which research will play a particularly important role in defining what the future of work looks like. At this special moment, scientists can’t just be passive observers of what is happening. Rather, we have the responsibility to shape work for the better. We hope this report can help our colleagues around world make progress towards this goal.
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Excerpt:
Analyzing and integrating may become more important skills than searching and creating
With content being generated by AI, knowledge work may shift towards more analysis and critical integration
- Information search as well as content production (manually typing, writing code, designing images) is greatly enhanced by AI, so general information work may shift to integrating and critically analyzing retrieved information
- Writing with AI is shown to increase the amount of text produced as well as to increase writing efficiency (Biermann et al. 2022, Lee et al 2022)
- With more generated text available, the skills of research, conceptualization, planning, prompting and editing may take on more importance as LLMs do the first round of production (e.g., Mollick 2023).
- Skills not directly to content production, such as leading, dealing with critical social situations, navigating interpersonal trust issues, and demonstrating emotional intelligence, may all be more valued in the workplace (LinkedIn 2023)
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The rise of AI fake news is creating a ‘misinformation superspreader’ — from washingtonpost.com by Pranshu Verma
AI is making it easy for anyone to create propaganda outlets, producing content that can be hard to differentiate from real news
Artificial intelligence is automating the creation of fake news, spurring an explosion of web content mimicking factual articles that instead disseminates false information about elections, wars and natural disasters.
Since May, websites hosting AI-created false articles have increased by more than 1,000 percent, ballooning from 49 sites to more than 600, according to NewsGuard, an organization that tracks misinformation.
Historically, propaganda operations have relied on armies of low-paid workers or highly coordinated intelligence organizations to build sites that appear to be legitimate. But AI is making it easy for nearly anyone — whether they are part of a spy agency or just a teenager in their basement — to create these outlets, producing content that is at times hard to differentiate from real news.
AI, and everything else — from pitch.com by Benedict Evans
Chevy Chatbots Go Rogue — from
How a customer service chatbot made a splash on social media; write your holiday cards with AI
I just bought a 2024 Chevy Tahoe for $1. pic.twitter.com/aq4wDitvQW
— Chris Bakke (@ChrisJBakke) December 17, 2023
Their AI chatbot, designed to assist customers in their vehicle search, became a social media sensation for all the wrong reasons. One user even convinced the chatbot to agree to sell a 2024 Chevy Tahoe for just one dollar!
This story is exactly why AI implementation needs to be approached strategically. Learning to use AI, also means learning to build thinking of the guardrails and boundaries.
Here’s our tips.
Rite Aid used facial recognition on shoppers, fueling harassment, FTC says — from washingtonpost.com by Drew Harwell
A landmark settlement over the pharmacy chain’s use of the surveillance technology could raise further doubts about facial recognition’s use in stores, airports and other venues
The pharmacy chain Rite Aid misused facial recognition technology in a way that subjected shoppers to unfair searches and humiliation, the Federal Trade Commission said Tuesday, part of a landmark settlement that could raise questions about the technology’s use in stores, airports and other venues nationwide.
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But the chain’s “reckless” failure to adopt safeguards, coupled with the technology’s long history of inaccurate matches and racial biases, ultimately led store employees to falsely accuse shoppers of theft, leading to “embarrassment, harassment, and other harm” in front of their family members, co-workers and friends, the FTC said in a statement.
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Tips on making professional-looking, engaging videos for online courses — from timeshighereducation.com by Geoff Fortescue
Making videos for online classes doesn’t have to be costly. Here are ways to make them look professional on a budget
During lockdown, we were forced to start producing videos for Moocs remotely. This was quite successful, and we continue to use these techniques whenever a contributor can’t come to the studio. The same principles can be used by anyone who doesn’t have access to a media production team. Here are our tips on producing educational videos on a budget.
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by Daniel Christian
The Evolution of Collaboration: Unveiling the EDUCAUSE Corporate Engagement Program — from er.educause.edu
The program is designed to strengthen the collaboration between private industry and higher education institutions—and evolve the higher education technology market. The new program will do so by taking the following actions:
- Giving higher education professionals better access to corporate thought leaders who can help create change at their institutions
- Educating corporate partners on the nuances of higher education and the major challenges it faces so that they can help provide meaningful solutions
- Giving the EDUCAUSE staff and leadership better access to corporate change-makers in order to advocate for change on behalf of our institutional community
- Providing the institutional community with higher-quality content and services from companies that are deeply invested in the success of higher education
- Providing the corporate community with custom-built packages that allow more meaningful connections with the institutional community—not only at our in-person events but also through online opportunities year-round
By building better bridges between our corporate and institutional communities, we can help accelerate our shared mission of furthering the promise of higher education.
Speaking of collaborations, also see:
Could the U.S. become an “Apprentice Nation?” — from Michael B. Horn and Ryan Craig
Intermediaries do the heavy lifting for the employers.
Bottom line: As I discussed with Michael later in the show, we already have the varied system that Leonhardt imagines—it’s just that it’s often by chaos and neglect. Just like we didn’t say to 8th graders a century ago, “go find your own high school,” we need to design a post-high school system with clear and well-designed pathways that include:
- Apprenticeships outside of the building trades so students can learn a variety of jobs by doing the job.
- Short-term certificates that lead to jobs without necessarily having the college degree immediately, but having the option to return for a college degree later on.
- Transfer pathways where credits earned in high school really count in college and the move from two-year college to any four-year institution is seamless.
Listen to the complete episode here and subscribe to the podcast.
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Prompt engineering — from platform.openai.com
This guide shares strategies and tactics for getting better results from large language models (sometimes referred to as GPT models) like GPT-4. The methods described here can sometimes be deployed in combination for greater effect. We encourage experimentation to find the methods that work best for you.
Some of the examples demonstrated here currently work only with our most capable model, gpt-4. In general, if you find that a model fails at a task and a more capable model is available, it’s often worth trying again with the more capable model.
You can also explore example prompts which showcase what our models are capable of…
Preparedness — from openai.com
The study of frontier AI risks has fallen far short of what is possible and where we need to be. To address this gap and systematize our safety thinking, we are adopting the initial version of our Preparedness Framework. It describes OpenAI’s processes to track, evaluate, forecast, and protect against catastrophic risks posed by increasingly powerful models.
Every Major Tech Development From 2023 — from newsletter.thedailybite.co
The yearly tech round-up, Meta’s smart glasses upgrade, and more…
Here’s every major innovation from the last 365 days:
- Microsoft: Launched additional OpenAI-powered features, including Copilot for Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Microsoft 365, enhancing business functionalities like text summarization, tone adjustment in emails, data insights, and automatic presentation creation.
- Google: Introduced Duet, akin to Microsoft’s Copilot, integrating Gen AI across Google Workspace for writing assistance and custom visual creation. Also debuted Generative AI Studio, enabling developers to craft AI apps, and unveiled Gemini & Bard, a new AI technology with impressive features.
- Salesforce: …
- Adobe: …
- Amazon Web Services (AWS): …
- IBM: …
- Nvidia: …
- OpenAI: …
- Meta (Facebook): …
- Tencent: …
- Baidu: …
News in chatbots — from theneurondaily.com by Noah Edelman & Pete Huang
Here’s what’s on the horizon:
- Multimodal AI gets huge. Instead of just typing, more people will talk to AI, listen to it, create images, get visual feedback, create graphs, and more.
- AI video gets really good. So far, AI videos have been cool-but-not-practical. They’re getting way better and we’re on the verge of seeing 100% AI-generated films, animations, and cartoons.
- AI on our phones. Imagine Siri with the brains of ChatGPT-4 and the ambition of Alexa. TBD who pulls this off first!
- GPT-5. ‘Nuff said.
20 Best AI Chatbots in 2024 — from eweek.com by Aminu Abdullahi
These leading AI chatbots use generative AI to offer a wide menu of functionality, from personalized customer service to improved information retrieval.
Top 20 Generative AI Chatbot Software: Comparison Chart
We compared the key features of the top generative AI chatbot software to help you determine the best option for your company…
What Google Gemini Teaches Us About Trust and The Future — from aiwithallie.beehiiv.com by Allie K. Miller
The AI demo may have been misleading, but it teaches us two huge lessons.
TL;DR (too long, didn’t read)
- We’re moving from ‘knowledge’ to ‘action’.
AI moving into proactive interventions. - We’re getting more efficient.
Assume 2024 brings lower AI OpEx. - It’s multi-modal from here on out.
Assume 2024 is multi-modal. - There’s no one model to rule them all.
Assume 2024 has more multi-model orchestration & delegation.
Stay curious, stay informed,
Allie
Chatbot Power Rankings — from theneurondaily.com by Noah Edelman
Here’s our power rankings of the best chatbots for (non-technical) work:
1: ChatGPT-4—Unquestionably the smartest, with the strongest writing, coding, and reasoning abilities.
T1: Gemini Ultra—In theory as powerful as GPT-4. We won’t know for sure until it’s released in 2024.
2: Claude 2—Top choice for managing lengthy PDFs (handles ~75,000 words), and rarely hallucinates. Can be somewhat stiff.
3: Perplexity—Ideal for real-time information. Upgrading to Pro grants access to both Claude-2 and GPT-4.
T4: Pi—The most “human-like” chatbot, though integrating with business data can be challenging.
T4: Bing Chat—Delivers GPT-4-esque responses, has internet access, and can generate images. Bad UX and doesn’t support PDFs.
T4: Bard—Now powered by Gemini Pro, offers internet access and answer verification. Tends to hallucinate more frequently.
and others…
Midjourney + ChatGPT = Amazing AI Art — from theaigirl.substack.com by Diana Dovgopol and the Pycoach
Turn ChatGPT into a powerful Midjourney prompt machine with basic and advanced formulas.
Make music with AI — from aitestkitchen.withgoogle.com re: Music FX
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Regarding this Tweet on X/Twitter:
I have a column about AI and law in @thetimes today. Here are some brief extracts:
“The main social benefit of legal AI will not be in making lawyers more efficient but in empowering people who are not lawyers to handle their own legal affairs” …
See https://t.co/mn9VV92YaI pic.twitter.com/ZlKRzZWVrK
— Richard Susskind (@richardsusskind) December 14, 2023
To Unleash Legal Tech, Lawyers And Engineers Need To Talk — from forbes.com by Tanguy Chau
Here, I’ll explore some ways that engineers and lawyers see the world differently based on their strengths and experiences, and I’ll explain how they can better communicate to build better software products, especially in AI, for attorneys. Ideally, this will lead to happier lawyers and more satisfied clients.
Zuputo: Africa’s first women-led legal tech startup launches — from myjoyonline.com
A groundbreaking legal tech startup, Zuputo, is set to reshape the legal landscape across Africa by making legal services more accessible, affordable, and user-friendly.
Founded by Jessie Abugre and Nana Adwoa Amponsah-Mensah, this women-led venture has become synonymous with simplicity and efficiency in legal solutions.
On 12/16/2023,
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by Daniel Christian
AI Is Transforming Corporate Learning Even Faster Than I Expected — from joshbersin.com by Josh Bersin
Excerpts (emphasis DSC):
Of all the domains to be impacted by AI, perhaps the biggest transformation is taking place in corporate learning. After a year of experimentation, it’s now clear that AI will revolutionize this space.
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Here’s a simple example. I asked Galileo™, which is powered by 25 years of research and case studies, “How do I deal with an employee who’s always late? And please give me a narrative to help?” Rather than take me to a course on management or show me a bunch of videos, it simply answered the question. This type of interaction is where much of corporate learning is going.
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In all my years as an analyst, I’ve never seen a technology with so much potential. AI will revolutionize the L&D landscape, reinventing how we do our work so L&D professionals can spend time consulting with the business.
