Thursday, September 14, 2023

A carrot to go with the stick? Would a larger stick have been better?

https://www.databreaches.net/disclose-data-breaches-to-us-proactively-and-well-lower-any-fines-ico/

Disclose data breaches to us proactively, and we’ll lower any fines — ICO

Emma Woollacott reports:

British businesses could face lower fines if they proactively report data breaches, thanks to an agreement between the UK’s data protection regulator and cybersecurity agency.
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) and National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) say they plan to encourage engagement with the NCSC in the event of a breach, and allow meaningful engagement with the NCSC to lead to reduced regulatory penalties.

Read more at Forbes.

Woollacott cites the ICO’s report last year indicating that compliance with GDPR’s 72- hours deadline to report a breach to the ICO was only occurring in fewer than a third of breaches involving personal data since 2019. Offering the possibility of reduced fines for compliance — if couples with the ICO actually imposing fines for noncompliance — may work well.





Would you allow consultants to train their AI on your data? Would you trust AI trained on someone else’s data?

https://www.businessinsider.com/ey-ernst-young-consulting-invests-ai-strategy-training-model-tools-2023-9

EY has created its own large-language model — and says it will train all 400,000 employees to use it as part of a $1.4 billion investment

Ernst & Young is betting big on AI.

On Wednesday, the consulting and strategy giant announced it had completed a $1.4 billion investment into AI and that, over the last 18 months, it had developed a series of in-house artificial intelligence tools.

As part of its investment, the firm developed its own large language model, EY.ai EYQ, which will be used as an in-house chat interface. The model is currently trained on information publicly available on the internet, but the company hopes to train it on internal data, like more than a century's worth of tax figures, The Wall Street Journal reported.





What if it becomes mandatory? (Check the images)

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adi6492

3D-printed epifluidic electronic skin for machine learning–powered multimodal health surveillance

The amalgamation of wearable technologies with physiochemical sensing capabilities promises to create powerful interpretive and predictive platforms for real-time health surveillance. However, the construction of such multimodal devices is difficult to be implemented wholly by traditional manufacturing techniques for at-home personalized applications. Here, we present a universal semisolid extrusion–based three-dimensional printing technology to fabricate an epifluidic elastic electronic skin (e3-skin) with high-performance multimodal physiochemical sensing capabilities. We demonstrate that the e3-skin can serve as a sustainable surveillance platform to capture the real-time physiological state of individuals during regular daily activities. We also show that by coupling the information collected from the e3-skin with machine learning, we were able to predict an individual’s degree of behavior impairments (i.e., reaction time and inhibitory control) after alcohol consumption. The e3-skin paves the path for future autonomous manufacturing of customizable wearable systems that will enable widespread utility for regular health monitoring and clinical applications.





Why you should use AI?

https://www.bespacific.com/large-language-models-and-the-future-of-law/

Large Language Models and the Future of Law

Charlotin, Damien, Large Language Models and the Future of Law (August 22, 2023). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4548258 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4548258

Large Language Models (LLMs) have crashed into the scene in late 2022, with ChatGPT in particular bringing to the mainstream what has before this remained within the domain of the initiates. This paper introduces the main features of LLMs and related Artificial Intelligence (AI) to the legal community, while reviewing their potential application in a legal context, as well as the main questions and issues raised by their increasing presence in a jurist’s life. Adopting a structural approach, the analysis highlights the areas of legal activity that stand to gain – or lose – from the generalisation of LLMs in our workflow. The radical innovation represented by LLMs will force jurists to rethink their approach to the law, their own role in it, and the future of legal education and training.”



(Related)

https://www.bespacific.com/how-to-use-large-language-models-for-empirical-legal-research-2/

How to Use Large Language Models for Empirical Legal Research

Choi, Jonathan H., How to Use Large Language Models for Empirical Legal Research (August 9, 2023). Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (Forthcoming), Minnesota Legal Studies Research Paper No. 23-23, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4536852

Legal scholars have long annotated cases by hand to summarize and learn about developments in jurisprudence. Dramatic recent improvements in the performance of large language models (LLMs) now provide a potential alternative. This Article demonstrates how to use LLMs to analyze legal documents. It evaluates best practices and suggests both the uses and potential limitations of LLMs in empirical legal research. In a simple classification task involving Supreme Court opinions, it finds that GPT-4 performs approximately as well as human coders and significantly better than a variety of prior-generation NLP classifiers, with no improvement from supervised training, fine-tuning, or specialized prompting.”





Resource.

https://www.bespacific.com/introducing-state-court-report/

Introducing State Court Report

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