Reworking the Workflow

The two New York City lawyers who used ChatGPT to file a legal brief got hit with a $5,000 fine. If only they checked their work – you know, like law firms generally do – before relying on a word calculating tool they had no idea how to use. Continue Reading →

Dropbox Adds AI-Powered Search

Dropbox is integrating AI into its platform with two new services. The first is a document summarization and querying tool. The second, Dash, is a universal search engine that scans files in Dropbox and across the web. Continue Reading →

AI Compliance: A Challenge for Large Language Models

Stanford University researchers have found that no current large language models (LLMs), including OpenAI's GPT-4 and Google's Bard, comply with the European Union's AI Act. This legislation, the first of its kind, governs AI within the EU, but it is serving as a blueprint for AI regulators around the world. Continue Reading →

AI-Generated Celebrities: A New Era of Marketing

Greetings from Terminal B at Newark. I'm heading to Deer Valley this morning to do a keynote about the potential global economic impact of AI. It is already touching every industry, and it's still early days. Meta's got a new voice cloner (that they're not going to release just yet), but there's plenty of other AI tools to go around. Continue Reading →

Why You Think Your Devices Are Listening to You

At a dinner party the other night, a very accomplished business person told a story about how he and his wife were certain that their devices were listening to their conversations. “I was talking to my wife about a pair of designer shoes that she wanted to purchase, and not 10 minutes later while she was doing some online research for work, she saw an ad for that exact pair of shoes. She hadn’t searched for the shoes; the ad just appeared. Clearly, our computers or our phones are listening.” Some people nodded in agreement, and others began to chime in. Continue Reading →

Music Industry Hits Twitter to the Tune of $250 Million

Twitter is facing a lawsuit from the National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA), which is seeking more than $250 million in damages for alleged copyright infringement. The NMPA, representing artists such as Taylor Swift and Beyoncé, argues that Twitter profits from the use of unlicensed music in user-generated content. Continue Reading →

Amazon Testing Generative AI Review Summaries

Amazon is testing a new feature that uses generative AI to summarize customer reviews. It will provide a brief overview of what shoppers liked and disliked about a product, with a disclaimer that the summary is "AI-generated from the text of customer reviews." This could be great for customers who find themselves overwhelmed by the sheer volume of reviews on popular products… or not. Continue Reading →