Can ChatGPT Write Contracts?

The last several months have been pivotal for AI chat technology. Not only is it getting better, it is becoming very accessible to everyday users.

I have been testing Chat GPT and Google’s Bard to see if they could actually help make my real procurement job easier, and I would say the answer is yes.

This video documents several requests I made of both services and I will let you know which one I think is best as of April 2023.

Intellectual Property vs. Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence (AI) is having a moment.

Tools like Dall-E and ChatGPT are scrubbing the internet and producing AI-generated artwork, scripts, and stories.

Not only is the creative community upset, there are ramifications in the business word. Some courts are ruling that AI-generated content cannot be copywritten.

This could have a major impact on corporate intellectual property policies and impede the ability to implement AI tools.

Here are some articles on the topic:
(1) The Verge – The Scary Truth About AI Copyright
(2) Falcon, Rappaport, & Berkman – Exploring the Legal Minefield of ChatGPT
(3) CBR – AI-Created Comic Could Be Deemed Ineligible for Copyright Protection

Farewell IBM Watson Health

The Wall Street Journal recently reported that IBM is looking to potentially sell the Watson Health Platform (consisting of AI and companies like Merge, Truven, Explorys, and Phytel).

Why did something so promising end up becoming a failure for the company?

This video explores the ups and downs of Watson Health:

News You Can Use: 5/29/2019

  • How work became the millennial religion of choice

    According to Jobvite’s annual Job Seeker Nation survey, 42% of American workers define themselves by the jobs they perform and/or the companies they work for, and that number rises to 45% among those under the age of 40. Furthermore, of the 42% who say that they define themselves through their work, 65% say it’s “very important” to who they are as people.

    “We have spiritual lives, we have physical lives, we like to have intellectual stimuli in our lives, we have our communities and our families and friends; humans are complex, and to have a really healthy balance, it requires all of those components,” says Rachel Bitte, Jobvite’s chief people officer. “Expecting all of that to come from your work could be an unrealistic expectation.”

    https://www.fastcompany.com/90350861/how-work-became-the-millennial-religion-of-choice

  • Diverse Workplaces Generate 19 Percent More Revenue Than Less Diverse Competitors

    Other tactics that La Mendola took to task for organizing multicultural teams included pinpointing personalities. By identifying the types of personalities on a team, from Type A taskmasters to creative working out-of-the-box types, you’ll begin to understand how to best approach the team as a whole.

    For a more laid back crowd, La Mendola recommends establishing a laissez-faire work environment–humor helps, too. In a multicultural environment that is more serious and straightforward, keep the crew on task for the best results. This is how La Mendola is able to manage a team of engineers from around the world and is also key to dealing with a multigenerational employee group.

    https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/333873

  • How AI will liberate doctors from keyboards and basements
  • How Silicon Valley gamed Europe’s privacy rules

    Smaller firms — whose fortunes were of special concern to the framers of the region’s privacy revamp — also have suffered from the relatively high compliance costs and the perception, at least among some investors, that they can’t compete with Silicon Valley’s biggest names.

    “Big companies like Facebook are 10 steps ahead of everyone else, and 100 steps ahead of regulators,” declared Paul-Olivier Dehaye, a privacy expert who helped uncover Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica scandal. “There are very big questions about what they’re doing.”

    The patchy record of Europe’s data protection overhaul — on the one-year anniversary of its implementation — has given industry an opportunity to blunt similar efforts outside the European Union to emulate the region’s new privacy rules.

    https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-data-protection-gdpr-general-data-protection-regulation-facebook-google/

News You Can Use: 5/22/2019

  • Trump declares national emergency over IT threats

    According to a White House statement, Mr Trump’s order aims to “protect America from foreign adversaries who are actively and increasingly creating and exploiting vulnerabilities in information and communications technology infrastructure and services”.

    It gives the secretary of commerce the power to “prohibit transactions posing an unacceptable risk to the national security”, the statement adds.

    The move was instantly welcomed by Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai, who called it “a significant step toward securing America’s networks”.

    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-48289550
    Huawei responds to Trump’s national emergency ban on foreign telecoms makers

    In a statement to the Chinese state-run Global Times, Huawei said: “If the U.S. restricts Huawei, it will not make the U.S. safer, nor will it make the U.S. stronger. It will only force the U.S. to use inferior and expensive alternative equipment, lagging behind other countries . . . and ultimately harming U.S. companies and consumers.”

    The company also tried a bit of de-escalation diplomacy, saying it was willing to “communicate with the U.S. to ensure product security.” Where this goes from here is anyone’s guess, but it’s certain that the Trump administration will leverage all the power in its arsenal to try to rein in foreign companies it sees as a threat to U.S. interests.

    https://www.fastcompany.com/90350980/huawei-responds-to-trumps-national-emergency-ban-on-foreign-telecoms-makers

  • Technology Is as Biased as Its Makers

    One possible response to this is that the algorithm is neutral, that it is just a vehicle for the ad, automatically responding to how people use it; algorithms aren’t racist, people are racist. But the algorithm is built in a way that also confirms implicit biases that exist in the real world, and it does so over and over again. The assumption that African American people are less trustworthy than white people is a commonly held form of implicit bias. It has real-world implications in a whole range of ways, from the success of job applicants to the split-second decisions made by police when pointing their guns at people. In Sweeney’s study, we see this attitude reproduced in the world of digital technology, intentionally or otherwise. This is not a mystery or an unfathomable outcome. Google is not entirely responsible for racism having an impact on automated advertising, but it cannot shirk responsibility for it. Ford was not solely responsible for hundreds, possibly thousands of cases of people being burned alive in their Pintos, but the court of public opinion rightly felt that it could have easily prevented them if it had designed the car differently.

    https://longreads.com/2019/05/14/technology-is-as-biased-as-its-makers/

  • How will Facebook and Google handle your death?
  • Sri Lanka Has Blocked Most Major Social Networks After A Facebook Post Sparked Anti-Muslim Riots

    The move comes three weeks after jihadist bombers killed at least 300 people in the country, sparking fears of sectarian violence against the country’s minority-Muslim population.

    On Twitter, Sri Lanka’s largest mobile carrier, Dialog Axiata, confirmed that it had restricted the websites and apps according to a directive from Sri Lanka’s telecom regulator. NetBlocks, a nonprofit organization that tracks internet outages, tweeted that this was the third time in weeks the country had banned social media in the wake of religious tension.

    https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/pranavdixit/sri-lanka-has-blocked-most-major-social-networks-after-a

  • “Zombies” who use their cellphones at crosswalks could be fined under proposed NY law

    Under the proposal, people crossing the street with their nose buried in their phone could face fines of between $25 to $250. The legislation targets people “using a portable electronic device while crossing a roadway,” and makes exceptions for emergency response and other medical personnel.

    “[The bill] does not say you can’t talk on the phone,” the bill’s sponsor, New York state senator John Liu, told the Guardian. “We’re talking about handheld devices … you can wait the five seconds to get to the other side.”

    https://www.fastcompany.com/90352008/ny-cellphone-users-could-be-fined-for-texting-at-crosswalks

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