(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…
(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…
(2 July 2024) ChatGPT-4 has become the first AI to pass a two-player Turing test, fooling human conversation partners 54% of the time. This test, proposed by Alan Turing in 1950, measures if an AI can mimic human intelligence. Researchers suggest this success might reflect more on the test’s limitations than AI’s intelligence. Find out…
(2 July 2024) Artificial Intelligence (AI) encompasses more than chatbots, extending into visual perception, intelligent robotics, speech recognition, natural language processing, automated programming, machine learning, neural networks, deep learning, and generative AI. These technologies revolutionize sectors like healthcare, finance, and communication by enhancing diagnostics, automation, data analysis, and user interfaces, driving innovation and efficiency. Find…
(1 July 2024) The National Library of Australia (NLA) is inadvertently archiving thousands of AI-generated web pages as part of its mission to document the Australian internet. This includes content from AI like ChatGPT, raising concerns about the impact on cultural understanding and the increasing storage needs due to the explosion of AI-produced material. Find…
(28 June 2024) OpenAI launched ChatGPT on November 30, 2022, popularizing generative AI writing and raising detection challenges. While AI writing existed before, its public accessibility was limited. Detecting AI writing involves automated, human, and hybrid approaches, each with varying effectiveness and resource requirements. Current detection methods are often unreliable, especially at scale. Find out…
Deal lets ChatGPT maker use all articles from Wall Street Journal, New York Post, Times and Sunday Times for AI model development (22 May 2024) ChatGPT developer OpenAI has signed a deal to bring news content from the Wall Street Journal, the New York Post, the Times and the Sunday Times to the artificial intelligence platform, the…
(26 Apr 2024) Sage and Technology from Sage, a provider of innovative library technology solutions, has launched a free online course to develop users’ proficiency in ChatGPT. The Art of ChatGPT Interactions is taught by Dr. Leo S. Lo, Dean of the College of University Libraries and Learning Sciences at the University of New Mexico.…
(27 Mar 2024) ChatGPT and many other LLMs suffer from a big limitation: though they spool out endless streams of information, they don’t give their citations. Given the possibility of hallucinations, i.e., information that LLMs “make up,” being able to check a LLM’s sources is not only useful—it’s vital. Doing so is also a good exercise…
(19 Feb 2024) Nick Pavlovski, academic librarian at Swinburne University of Technology shares his thoughts and experiences on the potential use of ChatGPT as a tool for library research and search construction. Using ChatGPT 3.5, he explains the limits and provides tips for using it effectively. Read more here.