Ideas that challenge / comfort / inspire
Stephen Goforth
Keep an account of your personal progress to create an objective record of your momentum toward your goals, as opposed to obsessing over what you haven’t yet achieved. So for example, if you’ve recently started a new job, think each day about the new skills and knowledge you’ve acquired, rather than worrying about what you still don’t know or can’t do. Keep a log of these accomplishments and review it regularly. -Arthur C. Brooks writing in The Atlantic
New Bloomberg Law Report Highlights AI and the Impact on the Legal Industry - Bloomberg
California Courts Announce New AI Regulations - National Law Review
Illinois law will punish students using AI for cyberbullying – WAND-TV
Meet the early-adopter judges using AI – MIT Tech Review
Does AI owe you for your small part in creating it? – Axios
The AI Law Professor: When chatbots become senior partners - Reuters
Courts aren't ready for AI-generated evidence - Axios
Trump Says He’s ‘Getting Rid of Woke’ and Dismisses Copyright Concerns in AI Policy Speech – Wired
AI guzzled millions of books without permission. Authors are fighting back. – Washington Post
US authors suing Anthropic can band together in copyright class action, judge rules – Reuters
Law360 mandates reporters use AI “bias” detection on all stories – Harvard’s Nieman Lab
Federal court says copyrighted books are fair use for AI training – Washington Post
Does ownership rights over original scholarship extend to the elements of a single course on AI? – Chronicle of Higher Ed
ChatGPT lawyer? Why small firms need professional-grade AI - Reuters
Getty drops copyright allegations in UK lawsuit against Stability AI – Associated Press
Group of high-profile authors sue Microsoft over use of their books in AI training – The Guardian
A federal judge sides with Anthropic in lawsuit over training AI on books without authors’ permission – Tech Crunch
Ethical uses of generative AI in the practice of law - Reuters
Please Do Your Best Not to Appear in the “AI Hallucination Database” – Lowering the Bar
A Legal Database of AI Hallucination Cases – Damien Charlotin
Will America Learn to Love A.I. Slop? - Puck
AI isn’t just entering law offices—it’s challenging the entire legal playbook – Fortune
Concerns and legal issues surrounding AI – Reuters
Australian lawyer apologizes for AI-generated errors in murder case – ABC News
Agentic workflows for legal professionals: A smarter way to work with AI - Reuters
Not infrequently, those who start a company either decide to leave voluntarily or are forced out. The irony of this: The person who founded the organization is now found to be irrelevant, or even detrimental to it.
From the standpoint of a theory of styles, such an event is neither surprising nor unusual. The styles of thinking that are compatible with rugged entrepreneurship are often not the styles that are compatible with management in a more entrenched and possibly bureaucratic firm. Similarly, different styles may be required for different levels of kinds of responsibility in an organization.
The startup entrepreneur has no lack of ability; if he or she had, the company never would have succeeded in the first place. Rather the individual has a revolutionary spirit that is more suitable to the earlier than the later stages of organizational development. What had worked so well earlier on simply no longer works. If the person cannot be flexible, he or she is likely to find it hard to fit into the organization.
Robert Sternberg, Thinking Styles
AI can be used to:
1. Facilitate learning - AI gets us more quickly to the important work
Examples: Providing suggestions for how to start researching a topic,
possible ways to phrase something.
2. Replace learning - AI does the important work for us
Example: answering exam questions
3. Supplement learning - AI is used alongside or incorporated into one’s own work
Examples: providing supporting data, creating an essay outline
Read more at the Chronicle of Higher Ed
Sometimes our first and greatest dare is asking for support. -Brené Brown
How NASA Is Testing AI to Make Earth-Observing Satellites Smarter - NASA
AI Can Make You Laugh. But Can It Ever Be Truly Humorous? - Undark
Can large language models do accounting? Evaluating LLMs on real long-horizon complex business tasks - Penrose
Tech companies have promised that AI will make our computers easier to use. That hasn’t happened – The Atlantic
Can A.I. Quicken the Pace of Math Discovery? – New York Times
Anthropic’s Claude AI became a terrible business owner in experiment that got 'weird' - TechCrunch
New tiny robots promise to fix underground water pipe leakage without excavation – Interesting Engineering
A.I. Is Poised to Rewrite History. Literally. - New York Times
Mathematical Beauty, Truth and Proof in the Age of AI – Quanta Magazine
AI agents bring big risks and rewards for daring early adopters - Zdnet
Mattel, OpenAI Ink Deal to Power Toy Innovation – Toy Book
The US military is planning to use AI-powered machine guns to counter drone attacks – First Post
“I just graduated with a computer science degree from Purdue, and the only company that has called me for an interview is Chipotle.” Since graduating in 2023, a CS major from Oregon State says he has applied for 5,762 tech jobs. His diligence has resulted in 13 job interviews but no full-time job offers.” -New York Times
Say rather, beloved Agathan, that you cannot refute the truth: for Socrates is easily refuted -Socrates
Context Engineering – Broader than prompt engineering, context engineering has been described as the art of providing all the context needed for a task to be solved by an LLM. Rather than a single prompt, context engineering is everything the model sees before it generates a response. Instead of a string, it’s a system. Providing a proper context is particularly critical for AI Agents to succeed, even more important than then quality of the model and algorithm.
More AI definitions here
In some situations, I am rewarded for being willing to stifle my soul. -Parker Palmer
AI use by students is increasing.
The higher the education level, the more likely that students will use AI.
Business, STEM, and social-science majors are more likely to use AI and are less likely to have concerns about using it than humanities majors.
Top uses by students: information or getting explanations (50-70 percent of respondents in the studies cited above); generating ideas or brainstorming (40-50 percent); and writing support, including checking grammar, editing, starting a paper, and drafting an essay (30-50 percent).
86 percent of students who use ChatGPT for assignments say their use was undetected.
A plurality of students think AI will have both positive and negative consequences.
A study of high-school students conducted before and after AI became mainstream found no increase in the percentage of students who cheat.
15-25 percent of students across several studies feel AI should not be allowed at all in education or refuse to use it themselves.
In a survey asking students why they use AI, the strongest agreement was with the statement that AI “will not judge me” followed by anonymity.
Four out of five students think their institutions have not integrated AI sufficiently.
55 percent of students think overreliance on AI in teaching decreases the value received from a course.
89 percent are worried about AI grading.
Students think AI is important, in other words, but not that it should replace professors.
Read more in The Chronicle of Higher Ed
The answer to the question, “How will AI affect my job?” might be better stated: “Does AI look like it is going to do the most highly skilled parts of my job or the low-skill parts?” If it’s the former, your pay and business value will fall. If it’s the latter where AI can do the mundane parts of your job for you, then you might get paid more (and it might get more fun).
Empathy is not feeling sorry for someone in physical or emotional pain—that’s sympathy. Rather, it is mentally putting yourself in the suffering person’s shoes to feel their pain. It’s the difference between “Get well soon” and “I can imagine how much discomfort you must be feeling right now.”
Empathy can “make us worse at being friends, parents, husbands, and wives,” because sometimes an act of love involves doing something that causes pain rather than relieving it, such as confronting an awful truth.
Arthur C. Brooks writing in The Atlantic
Who gets cheap flights and hotel upgrades? AI will decide. - Washington Post
Is It Still Disney Magic if It’s AI? – Wall Street Journal
Anthropic’s Claude AI became a terrible business owner in experiment that got 'weird' - TechCrunch
AI Is Coming for the Consultants. Inside McKinsey, ‘This Is Existential.’ – Wall Street Journal
Managers let AI assess raises, promotions, even layoffs, survey finds - Axios
Call Center Workers Are Tired of Being Mistaken for AI - Bloomberg
Small businesses are using AI, but not spending much - Axios
‘It destroys the purpose of humanity’: Customers are saying no to AI - Washington Post
Consumers have less trust in offerings labeled as being powered by artificial intelligence – Wall Street Journal
Anthropic launches its first big disruption to the finance industry - Axios
How to Navigate an AI Bull Market – Wall Street Journal
The Three Layers of ROI for AI Agents – Henry Pray
How AI could create the first one-person unicorn – Economist
Ad Agencies’ Low Growth Will Drag On as They Adjust to Era of AI, Barclays Says – Wall Street Journal
Small business AI adoption jumps to 68% as owners plan significant workforce growth in 2025 – Fox Business
Nearly a third of K–12 teachers say they used the technology at least weekly last school year. Sally Hubbard, a sixth-grade math-and-science teacher in Sacramento, California, told me that AI saves her an average of five to 10 hours each week by helping her create assignments and supplement curricula. “If I spend all of that time creating, grading, researching,” she said, “then I don’t have as much energy to show up in person and make connections with kids.” Lila Shroff writing in The Atlantic
In the long run the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip. -Daniel L. Reardon
MIT study: Surprisingly, rewriting prompts using generative AI led to worse performance. The team found that the automatic rewrites often added extra details or changed the meaning of what users were trying to say, leading the AI to produce the wrong kind of image. It shows how AI systems can break down when designers make assumptions about how people will use them. -MIT
Good listening takes practice; it’s actually a discipline. It doesn’t come easily or naturally. Listening means more than just hearing what a person says. A counselor I know expressed the difference like this: “hearing captures the words a person speaks; listening captures the meaning and the feeling beneath those words.” Listening is the mental step by which we become more aware of the other person than we are of ourselves. The best definition of listening I ever came across is that given by Norman H. Wright, who said, “Listening is not thinking about what you are going to say when the other person has stopped talking.’
“Say, ‘Lord, I don’t know if you’re there. If you’re there, write something on my heart.’ And He will.” -Arthur Brooks
A good AI prompt should include:
Sample content
Specific guidance on tone, length, structure, word count, etc.
An example:
Write a 1,000-word article on estate planning, targeting mid-aged professionals in the southeast US. The tone should be informative but approachable. Use plain language and a clear structure so it’s easily scannable. Include actionable tips and examples. Our firm focuses on public service professionals, such as teachers and firefighters, so please use language, scenarios, and tips that are relevant to this audience.
Keep providing feedback until the output meets your requirements.
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