(20 Mar 2023) IOP Publishing (IOPP) and Morressier have entered into a new partnership to develop an integrated, state-of-the-art platform that will streamline the peer review and journal submission process. The partnership aims to improve efficiencies for authors and reviewers and provide the best possible publishing experience. The system will enable rigorous peer review of…
Researchers are excited about the AI — but many are frustrated that its underlying engineering is cloaked in secrecy. (16 Mar 2023) OpenAI this week unveiled GPT-4, the latest incarnation of the large language model that powers its popular chat bot ChatGPT. The company says GPT-4 contains big improvements — it has already stunned people…
(17 Mar 2023) The public release of ChatGPT-3 in November last year captured the public’s imagination and turned this technology into front page news overnight. Only this week we saw the release of its much more powerful sibling, ChatGPT-4. In just a few short weeks there have already been some frankly startling demonstrations of the…
(21 Mar 2023) In this issue of IFLA Asia and Oceania Regional Quarterly News: NLB’s Historical Asian Children’s Literature Collection Recognised By UNESCO As Documentary Heritage Of Influence Director of Capital Library of China: an introduction IFLA Asia-Oceania Regional Division Committee in-person business meeting in Bangkok Pacific Virtual Museum Project: digitalpasifik.org IFLA-ILA South Asian…
By Ruth A. Pagell (21 Mar 2023) I ended RR 54 Academic Freedom and University rankings by warning readers that academic freedom is fragile. The next day, V-DEM released its 2023 Academic Freedom Index (AFi) which illustrates just how fragile it is. I also learned from QS that AFi is used in one of…
(14 Mar 2023) Open AI, the creator of ChatGPT, announced its release on GPT-4, the latest milestone in OpenAI’s effort in scaling up deep learning. GPT-4 is a large multimodal model (accepting image and text inputs, emitting text outputs) that, while less capable than humans in many real-world scenarios, exhibits human-level performance on various professional…
(5 Mar 2023) Data processes play a foundational role in just about every professional discipline, and data stakeholders all over the world are grappling with modernizing and optimizing data governance policies and practices. In this rapidly evolving landscape, what challenges will higher education face, and how will we rise to meet those challenges? How can we…
(14 Mar 2023) The rules are set out in the first AI ethics policy from Cambridge University Press and apply to research papers, books and other scholarly works. They include a ban on AI being treated as an ‘author’ of academic papers and books we publish. The move provides clarity to academics amid concerns…
(2 Mar 2023) The Summarizer provides concise and to-the-point answers at the top of Brave Search results pages, in response to the user’s input, solely based on Web search results. Unlike a purely generative AI model, which is prone to spout unsubstantiated assertions, we trained our large language models (LLMs) to process multiple sources of information…
(13 Mar 2023) To better understand librarians’ viewpoints on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in higher education, Helper Systems, a company that is striving to make information easier to find, manage and use, conducted a survey of more than 125 academic librarians in the United States. The survey results are freely available, with no registration.…