(30 Nov 2024) In a report published today, with funding from STM Solutions and six of its member organizations, we explore how key stakeholders—publishers, technology disruptors, librarians, and scholars—think generative AI will change their practices and processes. The consensus among the individuals with whom we spoke is that generative AI will enable efficiency gains across the…
(Sep 2024) Launched in 2021, LAB25 (Libraries and Archives Blueprint 2025) outlines NLB’s approach to innovation and experimentation in an age of increasing digitalization and personalization. Since April 2023, NLB has worked with public and private partners to leverage technology to enhance user engagement with our rich content repositories as part of the LAB25 “Singapore Storyteller”…
(11 Apr 2024) The Charleston In Between conference brought together academic librarians, large and small publishers, and service and product vendors for two half-days of open dialogue around Publishing Integrity. Held virtually over March 19th and 20th, the gathering of diverse industry professionals took a deep dive into the critical issue of publishing integrity within…
(11 Jan 2024) There are two primary LLM branches: generative AI (like OpenAI’s GPTs and models from Anthropic, Google, and Facebook) known for crafting text, and the less-heralded interpretive AI (exemplified by BERT—Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers) designed to understand text. ChatGPT has popularized generative AI, sparking immense interest. BERT has quietly remained in…
(5 Dec 2023) STM released a new white paper — Generative AI in Scholarly Communications: Ethical and Practical Guidelines for the Use of Generative AI in the Publication Process. A followup to AI Ethics in Scholarly Communication which STM released in April 2021, this new publication is a resource for stakeholders in scholarly publishing and addresses…
(8 Sep 2023) As pupils in part of the world return to school after the summer break, UNESCO is calling on governments to implement appropriate regulations and teacher training, to ensure a human-centred approach to using Generative AI in education. To this end, UNESCO publishes the first-ever global Guidance on Generative AI in Education and…