(4 Apr 2023) On March 30, CCC hosted a town hall via LinkedIn, ChatGPT & Information Integrity. Chris Kenneally, CCC’s senior director of content marketing, moderated the live event, inviting the speakers to share their experiences with ChatGPT and other AI tools and to express their concerns and questions about this rapidly changing technology. AI…
(22 Apr 2023) Six out of 19 Japanese universities surveyed by the Mainichi Shimbun have expressed views or set guidelines for their students on using interactive artificial intelligence (AI) including the ChatGPT chatbot, now being adopted for a rapidly expanding list of applications. The Mainichi has the news in full.
(17 Apr 2023) The result of an EDUCAUSE QuickPoll report investigating the nature and scope of generative AI’s arrival in higher education has been published. The report found that as the use of these technologies becomes more widespread, institutions will increasingly be faced with questions about longer-term implications. While most respondents agreed that these technologies…
(13 Apr 2023) Fair use and AI has been a popular topic recently given the flurry of developments to generative AI systems. As discussed in the first installation of this blog, it is impractical to make broad predictions about how courts might rule on fair use and AI. However, after a high-level analysis of the…
(10 Apr 2023) Alibaba Cloud unveiled Tongyi Qianwen (通義千問), a ChatGPT-like AI product that possesses both Chinese and English language capabilities it plans to deploy across all of the Chinese e-commerce giant’s business applications in the near future. The AI model will also be offered to customers and developers, allowing them to create customized large…
(30 Mar 2023) The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has opened a Trustworthy & Responsible Artificial Intelligence Resource Center (AIRC) to serve as a repository for current federal guidance on AI. The AIRC, formally launched on March 30, offers stakeholders easy access to previously issued materials, facilitating the creation of responsible AI…
(20 Mar 2023) Arron Tay shared his speculation on the possible impact of LLMs on academic libraries. “I’m going to focus on one specific area I have some expertise in, the implications of large language models (LLMs) on information retrieval and Q&A (Question and answer tasks) where LLMs are used in search engines to…
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…
(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…
(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…