The school lunchroom can conjure up all kinds of memories. For the founders of the non-profit Black Lunch Table (BLT), it brought inspiration.  

With ChatGPT (GPT stands for Generative Pre-Trained Transformer and belongs to the Natural Language Processing models), a language model has been published for free use, which creates texts in significantly better quality than the systems that have been publicly available up to now. Accordingly, there was a great - especially media - response. However, the expectations attached to the system are sometimes too euphoric.

Sukanya Thapliyal Last month, the Centre for Communication Governance at National Law University Delhi had the opportunity to participate as a stakeholder in the Fourth Session of the United Nations Ad-hoc Committee, tasked to elaborate a comprehensive international convention on countering the use of information and communications technologies (ICTs) for criminal purposes (“the Ad Hoc […]

Congratulations to DMRC Program Leader Professor Michael Dezuanni and Chief Investigator Dr T.J Thomson for their successful ARC Linkage grant led by Associate Professor Tanya Notley (University of Western Sydney). The linkage project team have secured $507,970 funding for their project – Addressing Misinformation with Media Literacy through Cultural Institutions.

February 8, 2023
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Wissen aus der Uni für den Einsatz im beruflichen Alltag – mit dem vom Europäischen Sozialfonds (ESF) und dem Bayerischen Staatsministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst geförderten Projekt ESF-BuDanu ist das möglich. Die Lehrstühle für BWL und Wirtschaftsinformatik sowie für Künstliche Intelligenz und Wissenssysteme der Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (JMU) schulen im Rahmen dieses Angebots kostenfrei Arbeitnehmende bayerischer Unternehmen und Studierende in ihrem Umgang mit digitalen Daten.

Avec Vincent Bachelet, 17 février 2023, 11h à 13h, à Paris ou en visioconférence.
L’article Séminaire Politiques des communs numériques est apparu en premier sur Centre Internet et Société.

This post is authored by Sachin Dhawan and Vignesh Shanmugam The grievance appellate committee (‘GAC’) provision in the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Amendment Rules, 2022 has garnered significant controversy. While it seeks to empower users to challenge the arbitrary moderation decisions of platforms, the provision itself has been criticised for […]

Hält das 49-Euro-Ticket Schritt mit den digitalen Kompetenzen der Bevölkerung oder fährt es einigen Bevölkerungsgruppen davon? Das bidt, ein Institut der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, hat dies im Rahmen des „bidt-SZ-Digitalbarometers“ – einer bundesweiten Erhebung zu den digitalen Kompetenzen innerhalb der Bevölkerung – genauer untersucht. Ein Ergebnis: Rund 15 Prozent der Personen in Deutschland nutzen kein Smartphone. Dies betrifft insbesondere ältere und einkommensschwächere Personen.

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Federated learning (FL) is an increasingly popular decentralized machine learning (ML) paradigm. FL client devices share with a trusted server only their local individual updates of a given ML model held in memory by all clients, rather than the data used to train it. These updates are called gradients, and are produced when clients run the ML model on their data locally.

The public hearing focused on the long-awaited legislation to protect media freedom in Europe.

On 6 February, Professor Elda Brogi took part in a public hearing organised by the Committee on Culture and Education at the European Parliament.

The event brought together experts from academia, civil society organisations and journalists to discuss the European Media Freedom Act (EMFA), a long-awaited legislative proposal aiming at strengthening media pluralism and media freedom in the European Union.

Das 49-Euro-Ticket soll an den Erfolg des Neun-Euro-Tickets im Sommer 2022 anknüpfen, Bürgerinnen und Bürger finanziell entlasten, die Attraktivität des ÖPNV erhöhen und damit Anreize schaffen, auf Bus und Bahn umzusteigen, um einen Beitrag zu den Klimazielen zu leisten (Bundesregierung 2023).

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John Villasenor, Scientific American, February 10, 2023

As we entered 2023, many eyes have turned to the digital realm and its youngest actors, digital natives, or Generation Z. The digital readiness of countries around the world is regarded to be the new contested area as many vie for technological advancements and innovation following a relatively stagnant few years characterized by the COVID pandemic.

Avec Alexandre Monnin, 6 mars 2023 (au lieu du 2 mars), 12h à 13h30, à l'ENS Paris-Saclay et en visioconférence.
L’article Séminaire Critique de l’intelligence artificielle est apparu en premier sur Centre Internet et Société.