Notes from the Electronic Cottage 2/27/20: Fair Use – Fair Dealing Week 2020

Producer/Host: Jim Campbell

Most of us know that there is a system of copyright protection on original creative works but not all of us know part of our copyright law includes Fair Use. Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week, which is going on right now, is a good time to recall what Fair Use is and how all of us can make use of it as we create new works.

The web sites mentioned in today’s program are:
www.fairuseweek.org
web.law.duke.edu/cspd/comics/

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Notes from the Electronic Cottage 2/20/20: AI Today & Tomorrow

Producer/Host: Jim Campbell

The McKinsey consulting firm predicts that by 2030, fully a third of American workers will have lost a job due to Artificial Intelligence and automation. What kind of effects will that enormous change have on our society? And, just as importantly, why aren’t our political leaders and candidates running for office talking about how we should prepare for such a huge change? That change is not only ten years away – AI is having a serious impact on our lives today. Let’s start to think about AI and how this burgeoning technology affects our lives today, and will, to an even greater extent, tomorrow

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Notes from the Electronic Cottage 2/6/20: AI and Human Bias

Producer/Host: Jim Campbell

We hear a lot about Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning these days and the wondrous efficiency that they are bringing to so many tasks that once only humans could perform. But they’re also bringing biases as well because the machines were created by humans. Many people, including those in courthouses as well as in factories, imagine that machines are objective but they aren’t always. The fact that once machines begin learning on their own, even those who created them don’t know how they are doing what they are doing. That can be a big problem for folks who are trying to get a loan, buy insurance, apply for a job, or even apply for bail. Here’s why.

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