Sunday, May 03, 2020


Bold topic?
Redefining Censorship in the Digital Age
This paper explores the First Amendment and its role in online communication. Three main social media networks Facebook, Instagram and Twitter are examined throughout this study. This paper examines these social networking site’s legal obligations, or lack thereof, to the First Amendment. Supreme court cases as well as smaller, isolated, cases are outlined. Three main categories will be covered as follows: fake news, shadow banning, artificial intelligence and law.




Is our goal to replace lawyers?
How Does NLP Benefit Legal System: A Summary of Legal Artificial Intelligence
Legal Artificial Intelligence (LegalAI) focuses on applying the technology of artificial intelligence, especially natural language processing, to benefit tasks in the legal domain. In recent years, LegalAI has drawn increasing attention rapidly from both AI researchers and legal professionals, as LegalAI is beneficial to the legal system for liberating legal professionals from a maze of paperwork. Legal professionals often think about how to solve tasks from rulebased and symbol-based methods, while NLP researchers concentrate more on data-driven and embedding methods. In this paper, we describe the history, the current state, and the future directions of research in LegalAI. We illustrate the tasks from the perspectives of legal professionals and NLP researchers and show several representative applications in LegalAI. We conduct experiments and provide an indepth analysis of the advantages and disadvantages of existing works to explore possible future directions. You can find the implementation of our work from https://github. com/thunlp/legal_theme.




...and a little SciFi to get my students thinking. (Lawyers as facilitators?)
A new beginning
It is 2038. In our data-driven future, data has been firmly established as an economic asset and new, data-driven smart technologies have changed the way we live, work, love, think and vote. However, privacy laws provide a powerful counterbalance against data usage, stifling innovation. Joanne Asschenberg, a young entrepreneur, finds out the hard way when she introduces her AI personal assistant. While the law is clear, the private GDPR enforcement boards have in practice made use of AI impossible. She has to find a creative solution within the law or risk losing the AI completely...




Local entrepreneurship.
Josh.ai Closes $11M Series A To Scale Home Automation System
Many houses today are connected to some kind of device, such as Amazon’s Alexa or Google Home, but for bigger houses with dozens of rooms and connected devices, a more sophisticated system is needed.
To fill that need, Denver-based Josh.ai secured an $11 million Series A round of funding Thursday to boost its hands-free interface hardware and software for the home, which uses privacy-focused artificial intelligence technology.
The company professionally installs a “central control system” in homes that are 5,000 square feet and larger, and integrates with operations around the home, such as lighting, music, air conditioning or heating, audio/visual, security and appliances, CEO Alex Capecelatro told Crunchbase News.




Cheating I recommend to my students.
The Best Google Search Cheat Sheet: Tips, Operators, and Commands to Know



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