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EDUCAUSE QuickPoll results show higher education perspectives on adopting and adapting to generative AI in Higher Ed Tech

TechnologyApril 20, 2023

(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…

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How existing fair use cases might apply to AI

(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…

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Alibaba unveils ChatGPT rival With Chinese and English capabilities

Asia Pacific, TechnologyApril 20, 2023

(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…

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United States: NIST Artificial Intelligence Resource Center compiles federal guidance on AI

TechnologyApril 11, 2023

(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…

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How Q&A systems based on large language models (eg GPT4) will change things if they become the dominant search paradigm – 9 implications for libraries

TechnologyMarch 22, 2023

(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…

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GPT-4 is here: what scientists think

TechnologyMarch 21, 2023

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…

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OpenAI releases GPT-4

TechnologyMarch 15, 2023

(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…

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Web browser Brave introduces the Summarizer in its search engine, an AI tool for synthesized, relevant results

TechnologyMarch 15, 2023

(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…

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Asia: Universities on alert over ChatGPT and other AI-assisted tools

TechnologyMarch 2, 2023

(24 Feb 2023) Universities in Asia are on the alert over new generative artificial intelligence writing tools such as ChatGPT and other AI-assisted tools that can help students write text or code. Some universities moved early to ban their use while others have been more cautious. Some institutions, such as the University of Hong…

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Spain: AI unveils unknown play in library

TechnologyMarch 1, 2023

(24 Feb 2023) Artificial intelligence (AI) technology used to transcribe anonymous historic works at Spain’s National Library archives has uncovered a hidden gem — a previously unknown play by one of the nation’s greatest authors, Felix Lope de Vega. Researchers from Vienna and Valladolid universities used AI to transcribe 1,300 anonymous manuscripts and books…

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