(31 Oct 2023) Faculty members have been slower than students to adopt artificial intelligence tools in the last year, despite the buzz across academia about ChatGPT and other generative AI tools, according to a new report released today. Nearly half of college students are using AI tools this fall, but fewer than a quarter…
(27 Oct 2023) Colleen Shogan, the Archivist of the United States, discussed the National Archives‘ digital transition and use of artificial intelligence as part of a broader public conversation Thursday evening at the Seattle Public Library, led by Brad Smith, the Microsoft president, and organized by the National Archives Foundation. The National Archives is training an…
(12 Oct 2023) The State of AI Report analyses the most interesting developments in AI. Produced by AI investors Nathan Benaich and the Air Street Capital team, the report aim to trigger an informed conversation about the state of AI and its implication for the future. Now in its sixth year, the State of…
(25 Sep 2023) Getty Images, a preeminent global visual content creator and marketplace, today announced the launch of Generative AI by Getty Images, a new tool that pairs the company’s best‑in‑class creative content with the latest AI technology for a commercially safe generative AI tool. Generative AI by Getty Images is trained on the state‑of‑the‑art…
An algorithm that takes just seconds to scan a paper for duplicated images racks up more suspicious images than a person (3 Oct 2023) Scientific-image sleuth Sholto David blogs about image manipulation in research papers, a pastime that has exposed him to many accounts of scientific fraud. But other scientists “are still a little bit…
A Nature survey finds that scientists are concerned, as well as excited, by the increasing use of artificial-intelligence tools in research (27 Sep 2023) Artificial-intelligence (AI) tools are becoming increasingly common in science, and many scientists anticipate that they will soon be central to the practice of research, suggests a Nature survey of more…
(6 Sep 2023) Today, STM joins 26 organizations representing thousands of creative professionals around the world, including the academic publishing sector, news, entertainment, magazine, and book publishing companies released Global Principles for Artificial Intelligence (AI). A first of their kind, these pioneering Global Principles provide guidance for the development, deployment, and regulation of Artificial Intelligence (AI)…
(28 Sep 2023) In this blog post, Aaron Tay shares a non-comprehensive list of academic search engines that use generative AI (almost always Large language models) to generate direct answers on top of list of relevant results, typically using Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) Techniques. Find out more here.
(27 Sep 2023) OpenAI’s ChatGPT has been an undoubtedly powerful and interesting tool since its release in November 2022, but it has been limited with the domain of its knowledge — which only included information up to September 2021. But that changes today. OpenAI just announced on X (formerly Twitter) that ChatGPT “can now browse…
(19 Sep 2023) [University of Leeds] has published a significant research report examining the transformational potential of artificial intelligence (AI) in libraries. “Looking towards a brighter future: the potentiality of AI and digital transformations to library spaces” aims to better understand the potential and the practical implications of AI in libraries. The report explores…