The Download: OpenAI’s knowledge catastrophe, and screens in colleges

OpenAI has simply over every week to adjust to European knowledge safety legal guidelines following a short lived ban in Italy, and a slew of investigations in different EU nations. If it fails, it might face hefty fines, be compelled to delete knowledge, and even be banned.

But specialists have advised MIT Technology Review that it will likely be subsequent to not possible for OpenAI to adjust to the foundations. That’s due to the way in which knowledge used to coach its AI fashions has been collected: by hoovering up content material off the web. Read the full story.

—Melissa Heikkilä

How to show youngsters who flip between ebook and display screen

Since the pandemic closed colleges in 2020, practically all college students have been studying on school-issued laptops or tablets. But many specialists suspect that the expertise could also be altering how they learn, as studying on a display screen is essentially completely different from studying on the web page. 

Researchers who examine younger readers’ brains and behaviors are keen to know precisely the place tech serves youngsters’ progress in studying and the place it could stand in the way in which. The questions are nonetheless so new that the solutions are sometimes unclear.

Educators who’re extra dependent than ever on digital tech to assist studying typically have little or no steerage on methods to stability screens and paper books. In quite a lot of methods, every teacher is winging it. Read the full story.