artificial intelligence

O’Reilly 2024 State of Security Survey reveals critical AI skills gap as organizations grapple with evolving cyber threats

AI, InternetOctober 14, 2024

(7 Oct 2024) O’Reilly has released its 2024 State of Security Survey report, revealing a concerning disconnect between the rapidly evolving cyber threats and the readiness of security teams to combat them. This comprehensive study, which surveyed over 1,300 tech professionals, sheds light on the current security landscape, identifies emerging threats, and assesses how organizations are adapting their security…

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Ex Libris launches generative AI-powered Primo Research Assistant

PublishersSeptember 29, 2024

(18 Sep 2024) Clarivate Plc today launched Primo™ Research Assistant. Developed in collaboration with partners from the library community, the new generative AI-powered library discovery solution offers a seamless experience for students and researchers. It provides immediate answers to natural language queries and offers expansive visibility into sources and references. Primo Research Assistant, part of…

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Clarivate report unveils the transformative role of AI on shaping the future of the library

Libraries, PublishersSeptember 10, 2024

(9 Sep 2024) Clarivate Plc today launched its first Pulse of the Library™ report. The report reveals that libraries are in the early days of Artificial Intelligence (AI) implementation. Librarians are considering applications of AI that support the library mission, particularly in enhancing content discovery and increasing efficiency for their teams. However, there are notable concerns, including a…

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Taiwan: Education ministry and universities launch AI alliance

AI, Asia PacificSeptember 10, 2024

(3 Sep 2024) Minister of Education [of Taiwan] Cheng Ying-yao (鄭英耀), along with representatives of 25 universities, yesterday announced the establishment of the Taiwan Artificial Intelligence College Alliance to enable students to take intercollegiate courses on artificial intelligence (AI) and obtain certificates. The alliance, which begins official operations in the academic year starting this month,…

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Kids who use ChatGPT as a study assistant do worse on tests, study finds

AI, EducationSeptember 4, 2024

(2 Sep 2024) Does AI actually help students learn? A recent experiment in a high school provides a cautionary tale. Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania found that Turkish high school students who had access to ChatGPT while doing practice math problems did worse on a math test compared with students who didn’t have access…

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AI has created a battle over web crawling – Training data may wind up in short supply as websites restrict crawler bots

AI, InternetSeptember 4, 2024

(31 Aug 2024) A new report from the Data Provenance Initiative, a volunteer collective of AI researchers, shines a light on what’s happening with all that data. The report, “Consent in Crisis: The Rapid Decline of the AI Data Commons,” notes that a significant number of organizations that feel threatened by generative AI are taking measures…

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Approaching AI at the National Library of Scotland

AIAugust 28, 2024

(6 Aug 2024) Robert Cawston, Director of Digital and Service Transformation, introduces a new AI Statement for the National Library of Scotland. “Our AI statement was created as a guide to the Llbrary’s decision-making on how we employ AI tools, communicate about our use of AI, collect AI-generated material, and allow our data to be…

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OpenAI has built a text watermarking method to detect ChatGPT-written content, but holds its release

AIAugust 19, 2024

(5 Aug 2024) OpenAI has already built and tested a tool to detect whether any written content has been created using ChatGPT. But the Wall Street Journal reports that the company is holding back the tool from public release because of several concerns. The tool adds a pattern to how the large language model (LLM) writes its…

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Has your paper been used to train an AI model? Almost certainly

AI, CopyrightAugust 15, 2024

Artificial-intelligence developers are buying access to valuable data sets that contain research papers — raising uncomfortable questions about copyright. (14 Aug 2024) Academic publishers are selling access to research papers to technology firms to train artificial-intelligence (AI) models. Some researchers have reacted with dismay at such deals happening without the consultation of authors. The trend is raising…

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AI is complicating plagiarism. How should scientists respond?

AIAugust 12, 2024

The explosive uptake of generative artificial intelligence in writing is raising difficult questions about when use of the technology should be allowed. (30 Jul 2024) The rapid uptake of generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools — which create text in response to prompts — has raised questions about whether this constitutes plagiarism and under what…

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