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Michael Cohen, former President Trump’s ex-fixer and personal lawyer, said in newly unsealed court filings that he accidentally gave his lawyer fake legal citations concocted by the artificial intelligence program Google Bard. U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman called three case citations into question earlier this month after they were used in a motion to end Cohen’s supervised release early. Cohen pleaded guilty to charges including tax evasion and campaign finance violations in 2018 and served some time in prison. Cohen wrote in a sworn declaration unsealed Friday that he has not kept up with “emerging trends (and related risks)” in...

Google’s conversational AI, Bard, has launched in an experimental phase, and The Free Press took it for a test ride on political bias with just a couple of questions. According to Google, the tool was developed to help you with productivity and creativity...

Google released Bard in March, an artificial intelligence tool touted as ChatGPT's rival. Just weeks into this public experiment, Bard has already defied expectations and ethical boundaries. In an interview with CBS' "60 Minutes" that aired Sunday, Google CEO Sundar Pichai admitted that there is a degree of impenetrability regarding generative AI chatbots' reasoning. "There is an aspect of this which we call ... a 'black box.' You know, you don't fully understand," said Pichai. "You can't quite tell why it said this or why it got wrong. We have some ideas, and our ability to understand this gets better...

Liberal billionaire philanthropist George Soros, who funds progressive drives and causes worldwide, has committed $500 million to a private liberal arts college in New York that seeks to enrich “democratic discourse by training tomorrow’s thought leaders.” Bard College announced the donation on Thursday, describing the gift as “transformational,” calling it “among the largest ever made to higher education in the United States.” According to the school, the funding “will facilitate and strengthen Bard’s exemplary educational and social initiatives, establish the College’s most substantial endowment ever, and set the stage for a $1 billion endowment drive.” Bard officials said the school...

QUEENSBURY — A medical device company has gone on a hiring spree after buying Bard, which has a well-known local manufacturing plant. BD has put up signs on the bike trail, is passing out flyers and recently changed the sign at Bard on Bay Road as it tries to hire 45 new employees. The company needs engineers, supervisors, workers trained in the “continuous improvement” efficiency system and many other positions. A flyer being circulated around the region says the company is also looking for manufacturing team members, with no previous experience needed. The openings are listed at www.crbard.com/careers. The company...

[VIDEO DOCUMENTARY] From The Solon Historical Society Achieves - March 24th, 1998 Nelson Bard discusses his personal involvement in the real life "Caine Munity"

Dear President Botstein [Bard College], cc: Board of Trustees c/o Amie McEvoy and Department of Student Activities, and posted online We understand from http://clubs.bard.edu/ism/ that the International Solidarity Movement is using Bard College facilities and Bard College’s Web site. This organization may endanger the physical safety of your students should they take part in its activities abroad. Here is the executive summary, and independently verifiable details appear below. (1) The ISM’s willfully reckless activities have already cost the life of one college student, Rachel Corrie of Olympia WA (Evergreen College). The ISM stated in context with Ms. Corrie’s death that...

My sister and I are close, talking on the phone several times a week, the occasional chit-chat online, checking out boy news, school news and petit gossip — staying on top of each other’s lives in general. She has even visited me at Cornell a few times. However, I have only seen her school, Bard College, once and briefly so, when I helped her move in as a freshman. That visit was dominated by runs to Target, moving furniture, getting lost on campus, filling out forms and shuffling around awkward orientation meetings. Now, with a year come and gone, her...

Diplomat 'was real Shakespeare'   The authorship of Shakespeare's plays has often been questioned An Elizabethan diplomat named Sir Henry Neville was the real author of William Shakespeare's plays, a new book claims.The Truth Will Out: Unmasking the Real Shakespeare says the courtier, nicknamed "Falstaff" by close friends, used Shakespeare as a "front man". The book by Brenda James and Professor William Rubinstein contains a foreword by Mark Rylance, artistic director of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London. Many experts remain sceptical at claims to have found the "real" Shakespeare. Jonathan Bate, professor of Renaissance Literature at the University of...

We have received the following letter from a Mr. Katz, a graduate of Bard College, Class of 1971: Matt May, in his recent article, erroneously states that Cornelius "Chevy"Chase, is a graduate of Bard College. This error may be due to Chase himself falsely claiming to having graduated from Bard. The ONLY degree that Chase has ever received from Bard, is an honorary degree, reputedly after donating a large sum of money to the college. I challenge Chase to offer documentation to refute this statement of fact. Chase, who called President Bush "a dumb [obscenity]" is remined that the object...