GenAI's effect on children
AI The challenges of education in a GenAI worldA report from Stanford’s Internet Observatory predicts that the current systems for reporting and...
AI all the way down
AI Microsoft Research has unveiled VASA-1, an AI tool that can transform single images and speech into videos of people talking (or singing) in real-...
Post-eclipse
AI Generative AI developers are allegedly scrambling for more content to train current and future models: "How Tech Giants Cut Corners to Harvest Data for...
100 Chief AI Officers
AI From Legal Dive: "General counsel working with law firms or legal tech companies implementing OpenAI’s generative AI tools on Microsoft’s Azure cloud face...
Spring Breaking
AI There is a public tracker for judicial orders & court rules regarding the use of AI in courtsTennessee has passed the Ensuring Likeness Voice and Image...
Certified non-infringing
AI Fairly Trained, a non-profit certification and auditing organization for AI models, has announced its first certification for Kelvin Legal Large Language...
Pi(e) Day 2024
AI Is New York City's AI Bias Law a failure? [Law 360 ($) | SHRM]The European Parliament has officially passed the AI Act, which is set to go into effect in...
AI Prognostication
AI Two bipartisan bills have been introduced in Congress: House Bill 7532, co-sponsored by James Comer (R-Ky.) and Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), would "codif[y]...
Happy Leap Day 2024
Ad for AI mental health therapist found on the campus of UCLA AI A Canadian attorney in British Columbia has been reprimanded for submitting fictitious case...
The Day ChatGPT lost its mind
AI Ars Technica has linked to some great examples of ChatGPT spouting word salad earlier this week (ed. note: My fave is how it starts going off the rails...
The Techshow 2024 issue
Tweet from SF Fire Department with pictures of a Waymo driveless vehicle set afire by a crowd in Chinatown AI Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin, handling two...
More GenAI guidelines
AI More guidelines for legal use of GenAI: New Jersey Courts: Preliminary Guidelines on the Use of AI by New Jersey Lawyers (H/T to Rebecca Fordon)American...
'Taylor Swift is driving AI regulation' is a brand new sentence
AI A bill has been introduced in the California Senate that would charge the Judicial Counsel with developing and implementing methods of detection of...
Legaltech conference season starts
AI The Federal Trade Commission has launched an inquiry into investments of Microsoft, Amazon, and Google in Anthropic and OpenAI, maker of AI chatbots...
Welcome 2024!
AI The Federal Judicial Center has published the following guide: An Introduction to Artificial Intelligence for Federal JudgesThe Preventing Deepfakes of...
Lawyer Ex Machina: Goodbye, 2023
[Editor's note: This is my last newsletter of the year. Happy holidays and I hope to have more news for you in January 2024] AI The EU has reached an...
Lawyer Ex Machina: Winding down 2023
AI After negotiating for 22 hours, negotiators for the European Union and its member states are pausing talks on final passage of the AI Act until Friday...
Lawyer Ex Machina: Exam Time
AI The 7th and presumably last Senate AI Forum of the year focused on issues of AI transparency, as well as its potential effects on new media, music, and...
Lawyer Ex Machina #61: The early Thanksgiving ed.
Everyone needs to watch this video in its entirety, and then send it to your friends and family immediately pic.twitter.com/WkBpXBcBJe— chris evans...
Lawyer Ex Machina #60
AI Lexis is expanding generative AI features into Courtlink, with summaries of complaints filed in U.S. district courts, and a Microsoft Word integration for...
