Penn Carey Law hosts discussion on patents for CRISPR technology

May 9, 2023

PENN CAREY LAW — The 2023 Master in Law Annual Lecture featured a panel discussion around the legal disputes arising from patent ownership of CRISPR technology. Three leading experts in science and law joined the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School community to discuss the groundbreaking tool that utilizes gene editing to correct genetic defects…

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Data privacy provider aims to combat ChatGPT privacy concerns

May 8, 2023

VENTURE BEAT — Today, data privacy provider Private AI, announced the launch of PrivateGPT, a “privacy layer” for large language models (LLMs) such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT. The new tool is designed to automatically redact sensitive information and personally identifiable information (PII) from user prompts. PrivateAI uses its proprietary AI system to redact more than 50 types of PII from…

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How AI can be used to develop personalized learning plans

May 8, 2023

YAHOO!NEWS — Over the last decade, educators and administrators have often encountered lofty promises of technology revolutionizing learning, only to experience disappointment when reality failed to meet expectations. It’s understandable, then, that educators might view the current excitement around artificial intelligence with a measure of caution: Is this another overhyped fad, or are we on…

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Journalist discusses how ChatGPT could become the future of writing

May 2, 2023

NEW YORK TIMES —  Once you start using ChatGPT you pretty much can’t stop. You begin with trivial, gimmicky prompts: Do this math problem. Tell me some vegetarian recipes with broccoli and peas. What came first, the jock or the jockstrap? But as the artificial intelligence chatbot easily dispatches your gimmes, you begin to take it more seriously.…

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Opinion: Is it worth it to enforce ChatGPT bans in college writing?

May 2, 2023

INSIDE HIGHER ED — The sun descends and I’m still not through grading papers, because they take twice as long now that my students have learned about ChatGPT. First, I put all the papers through GPTZero, but there are too many false positives, so I take the flagged text and try to reverse engineer it…

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Comparing AI and ChatGPT content detectors

May 2, 2023

SEARCH ENGINE LAND — As new ChatGPT alternatives pop up daily, AI content detectors are also gaining popularity. In this article, I’ll share 16 of these detectors and show you how they score some paragraphs of my original, unpublished writing versus a few paragraphs on the same topic from ChatGPT. I’ll also walk through the types of…

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How artificial intelligence could impact the future of higher education

May 2, 2023

SEATTLE U THE NEWSROOM — Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is at once intriguing, exciting and, yes, a little disturbing. For those of us in higher education, these technologies have apparent potential to disrupt traditional teaching and learning models. There is well-founded concern about generative AI’s implications for academic integrity along with a recognition that these…

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UC Berkeley Law adopts formal policy on using AI programs during research and exams

April 24, 2023

REUTERS — The University of California, Berkeley School of Law is among the first law schools to adopt a formal policy on student use of generative artificial intelligence such as ChatGPT. The policy, rolled out April 14, allows students to use AI technology to conduct research or correct grammar. But it may not be used…

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How the legal profession could utilize AI in the coming year 

April 24, 2023

JD SUPRA — Generative AI. Bard. Bing AI. Large language models. Artificial intelligence continues to dominate headlines and workplace chats across every industry since OpenAI’s public release of ChatGPT in November of 2022. Nowhere was this more evident than at this year’s Legalweek event. The annual conference, which gathers thousands of attorneys, legal practitioners, and eDiscovery providers together in…

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When law schools should consider upgrading legal research software

April 17, 2023

THOMSON REUTERS — Over time, legal research software has made revolutionary strides. All these strides have allowed for massive leaps to have been made in legal research technology and resources in just the past few years. Thomson Reuters Law School Account Manager and attorney Mark Frongillo states, “The problems legal researchers are solving haven’t changed significantly…

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