Artificial Intelligence (AI)

An Oxford University course module allowed students to use AI tools to write essays in a class. The task was to help students understand how to write a much better essay by using AI responsibly. The essays weren't part of any formal assessment, Professor Steve New told Business Insider.

Teachers and schools are being tricked into wasting time and money on these tools that can be better invested in training faculty.

The idea of an all-knowing computer program comes from science fiction and should stay there. Despite the seductive fluency of ChatGPT and other language models, they remain unsuitable as sources of knowledge. We must fight against the instinct to trust a human-sounding machine, argue Emily M. Bender & Chirag Shah.

Artificial intelligence seeks to create “intelligent” machines that work and react more like humans. AI developments rely on deep learning, machine learnings, and natural language processing that help computers accomplish specific tasks by processing large amounts of training data to help the system recognize patterns, input data to drive predictions, and feedback data for improving accuracy over time.

AI has a significant impact on university libraries, revolutionizing the way they operate and transforming the services they offer. This article lists some key ways in which AI is impacting university libraries.

Sam Altman, OpenAI's CEO, warned that the next wave of generative AI systems will consume vastly more power than expected, and that energy systems will struggle to cope.

Increasingly powerful AI systems are being released at an increasingly rapid pace. This week saw the debut of Claude 2, likely the second most capable AI system available to the public. The week before, Open AI released Code Interpreter, the most sophisticated mode of AI yet available. The week before that, some AIs got the ability to see images.

Library workers discuss ChatGPT and other generative AI tools and how they affect and can be used in libraries and classrooms

OpenAI is facing lawsuits over copyrighted materials it uses to train ChatGPT

The move to digitize background actors with AI is one reason the union began strike action today.

With the advent of ChatGPT, large language models (LLMs) went from a relatively niche topic to something that many, many people have been exposed to. ChatGPT is presented as an entertaining system to chat with, a dialogue partner, and (through Bing) a search interface.* But fundamentally, it is a language model, that is, a system trained to produce likely sequences of words based on the distributions in its training data. Because it models those distributions very closely, it is good at spitting out plausible sounding text, in different styles. But, as always, if this text makes sense it’s because we, the reader, are making sense of it.