Thursday, August 15, 2024

If you were going to run against someone, here’s a resource.

https://www.bespacific.com/what-elected-officials-say-and-do/

What Elected Officials Say and Do

Polarization Research Lab – America’s Political Pulse – Resources and data to understand and halt the growth of partisan animosity. What Elected Officials Say and Do – Explore data on the speech, effectiveness, and campaign support for elected U.S. legislators.

  • Using AI to assess the rhetoric of all 535 legislators in the House and Senate.

  • Pulling data from speeches, newsletters, tweets, and public statements.

  • 1,531,223 data points processed and tagged so far; updated daily.

What Voters Think about Partisan Animosity – Explore weekly survey data on partisan hatred, support for democratic norm violations, and support for partisan violence.





A clever starting point?

https://www.bespacific.com/ai-risk-repository/

AI Risk Repository

What are the risks from Artificial Intelligence? A comprehensive living database of over 700 AI risks categorized by their cause and risk domain.

What is the AI Risk Repository? The AI Risk Repository has three parts:

  • The AI Risk Database captures 700+ risks extracted from 43 existing frameworks, with quotes and page numbers.

  • The Causal Taxonomy of AI Risks classifies how, when, and why these risks occur.

  • The Domain Taxonomy of AI Risks classifies these risks into seven domains (e.g., “Misinformation”) and 23 subdomains (e.g., “False or misleading information”).

How can I use the Repository? The AI Risk Repository provides:

  • An accessible overview of the AI risk landscape.

  • A regularly updated source of information about new risks and research.

  • A common frame of reference for researchers, developers, businesses, evaluators, auditors, policymakers, and regulators.

  • A resource to help develop research, curricula, audits, and policy.

  • An easy way to find relevant risks and research.





So how much money do they owe you?

https://www.bespacific.com/has-your-paper-been-used-to-train-an-ai-model-almost-certainly/

Has your paper been used to train an AI model? Almost certainly

Nature – Artificial-intelligence developers are buying access to valuable data sets that contain research papers raising uncomfortable questions about copyright. “Academic publishers are selling access to research papers to technology firms to train artificial-intelligence (AI) models. Some researchers have reacted with dismay at such deals happening without the consultation of authors. The trend is raising questions about the use of published and sometimes copyrighted work to train the exploding number of AI chatbots in development. Experts say that, if a research paper hasn’t yet been used to train a large language model (LLM), it probably will be soon. Researchers are exploring technical ways for authors to spot if their content being used. AI models fed AI-generated data quickly spew nonsense. Last month, it emerged that the UK academic publisher Taylor & Francis, had signed a US$10-million deal with Microsoft, allowing the US technology company to access the publisher’s data to improve its AI systems. And in June, an investor update showed that US publisher Wiley had earned $23 million from allowing an unnamed company to train generative-AI models on its content. Anything that is available to read online — whether in an open-access repository or not — is “pretty likely” to have been fed into an LLM already, says Lucy Lu Wang, an AI researcher at the University of Washington in Seattle. “And if a paper has already been used as training data in a model, there’s no way to remove that paper after the model has been trained,” she adds…”





Probably inevitable.

https://www.reuters.com/world/kim-dotcom-be-extradited-new-zealand-after-12-year-fight-with-us-2024-08-15/

Kim Dotcom to be extradited from New Zealand after 12-year fight with US

Kim Dotcom, who is facing criminal charges relating to the defunct file-sharing website Megaupload, will be extradited to the United States from New Zealand, the New Zealand justice minister said on Thursday.

German-born Dotcom, who has New Zealand residency, has been fighting extradition to the United States since 2012 following a FBI-ordered raid on his Auckland mansion.





Resources. Because you never know when speaking Klingon might come in handy.

https://www.makeuseof.com/ai-powered-language-learning-apps/

5 AI-Powered Language Learning Apps Worth Trying

Are you looking to learn a new language with a minimum of effort? Well, AI-powered language-learning apps can make that dream a reality. The following apps can help transform language learning into a fun and effective process.



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