Tuesday, April 25, 2023

Imaging AI Regulations written by an AI...

https://fedscoop.com/congress-gets-40-chatgpt-plus-licenses/

Congress gets 40 ChatGPT Plus licenses to start experimenting with generative AI

Congressional offices have begun using OpenAI’s popular and controversial generative AI tool ChatGPT to experiment with the technology internally, a senior official within the Office of the Chief Administrative Officer’s House Digital Services said Friday.

The House recently created a new AI working group for staff to test and share new AI tools in the congressional office environment and now the House of Representatives‘ digital service has obtained 40 licenses for ChatGPT Plus, which were distributed earlier this month.

The purchase of the licenses comes amid widespread debate over how artificial intelligence technology should be used and regulated across the private sector and within government. This represents one of the earliest examples of ChatGPT being used as part of the policymaking process.





They are coming faster and faster. When will Congress notice?

https://fpf.org/blog/tenn-makes-nine-tennessee-information-protection-act-set-to-become-newest-comprehensive-state-privacy-law/

TENN. MAKES NINE? ‘TENNESSEE INFORMATION PROTECTION ACT’ SET TO BECOME NEWEST COMPREHENSIVE STATE PRIVACY LAW

On Friday April 21, Nashville lawmakers approved the Tennessee Information Protection Act (TIPA) following unanimous votes. Tennessee now joins Iowa, Indiana, and Montana as the four states in 2023 that have advanced baseline privacy legislation governing the collection, use, and transfer of consumer data.

TIPA is closely modeled on the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (VCDPA) that was enacted in March 2021 and went into effect on January 1 of this year.





Welcome to my Social Media (as long as you love me and my agenda)

https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-supreme-court-decide-if-public-officials-can-block-critics-social-media-2023-04-24/

U.S. Supreme Court to decide if public officials can block critics on social media

The U.S. Supreme Court, exploring free speech rights in the social media era, on Monday agreed to consider whether the Constitution's First Amendment bars government officials from blocking their critics on platforms like Facebook and Twitter.





Not intuitive and probably not the right approach.

https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/machine-learning-algorithms/

What Is Machine Learning? Intelligent Algorithms Explained

… Machine learning is a branch of computer science that focuses on giving AI the ability to learn tasks in a way that mimics human learning. This includes developing abilities, such as image recognition, without programmers explicitly coding AI to do these things. Instead, the AI is able to use training data to identify patterns and make predictions.





I need all the guidance I can get.

https://www.bespacific.com/how-to-use-ai-to-do-practical-stuff-a-new-guide-2/

How to use AI to do practical stuff: A new guide

One Useful Thing – Ethan Mollick People often ask me how to use AI. Here’s an overview with lots of links. “We live in an era of practical AI, but many people haven’t yet experienced it, or, if they have, they might have wondered what the big deal is. Thus, this guide. It is a modified version of one I put out for my students earlier in the year, but a lot has changed. It is an overview of ways to get AI to do practical things. Why people keep missing what AI can do. Large Language Models like ChatGPT are extremely powerful, but are built in a way that encourages people to use them in the wrong way. When I talk to people who tried ChatGPT but didn’t find it useful, I tend to hear a similar story. The first thing people try to do with AI is what it is worst at; using it like Google: tell me about my company, look up my name, and so on. These answers are terrible. Many of the models are not connected to the internet, and even the ones that are make up facts. AI is not Google. So people leave disappointed. Second, they may try something speculative, using it like Alexa, and asking a question, often about the AI itself. Will AI take my job? What do you like to eat? These answers are also terrible. With one exception, most of the AI systems have no personality, are not programmed to be fun like Alexa, and are not an oracle for the future. So people leave disappointed. If people still stick around, they start to ask more interesting questions, either for fun or based on half-remembered college essay prompts: Write an article on why ducks are the best bird. Why is Catcher in the Rye a good novel? These are better. As a result, people see blocks of text on a topic they don’t care about very much, and it is fine. Or the see text on something they are an expert in, and notice gaps. But it not that useful, or incredibly well-written. They usually quit around now, convinced that everyone is going to use this to cheat at school, but not much else. All of these uses are not what AI is actually good at, and how it can be helpful. They can blind you to the real power of these tools. I want to try to show you some of why AI is powerful, in ways both exciting and anxiety-producing.”



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