Fortune Brainstorm AI Conference: Themes and Ideas
Themes and ideas from the Fortune Brainstorm AI. “People won’t lose their jobs to AI; they’ll lose their jobs to people that are using AI.”
Guest Post: Introducing SSP’s AI in Scholarly Publishing Community of Interest (CoIN)
Introducing the AI in Scholarly Publishing Community of Interest (CoIN), the SSP’s latest offering to all its members to explore and engage in all matters AI as they relate to scholarly publishing.
Guest Post — Food for Thought: What Are We Feeding LLMs, and How Will this Impact Humanity?
Academia has developed an amazing tree of knowledge which is arguably the most important data for Large Language Models to be trained on. Where does the scholarly communication community fit in?
Ask The Chefs: The US Executive Order on Artificial Intelligence
We asked the Chefs for their thoughts on the Biden Administration’s Executive Order on “Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence.”
The United States Copyright Office Notice of Inquiry on AI: A Quick Take
A selection of questions and answers from Copyright Clearance Center’s response to the United States Copyright Office “Artificial Intelligence and Copyright” request for comment.
Kitchen Essentials: An Interview with Jennifer Gibson of Dryad
Today in Kitchen Essentials, Alice Meadows interviews Jennifer Gibson, Executive Director of the Dryad data repository.
Observations from the Charleston Vendor Showcase
Reflecting on the Charleston Conference Vendor Showcase @lisalibrarian share what she did — and didn’t — see.
Approaching Artificial Intelligence and Open Research in Sync: Opportunities and Challenges
Separately, both open research and AI are considered disrupters, causes of disorder in the normal continuance of scholarly publishing. But approaching them in a synchronized way can offer more productivity gains and efficiencies than taking them on individually.
Kitchen Essentials: An Interview with Juan Pablo Alperin and John Willinsky of PKP
In our next Kitchen Essentials post, Alice Meadows interviews Juan Pablo Alperin and John Willinsky of the Public Knowledge Project (PKP)
AI Will Lead Us to Need More Garbage-subtraction.
Generative AI wants to make information cheap, but will people want to read it? Are we ready for more productive writers?
Kitchen Essentials: An Interview with Adam Hyde of Coko
Following on from yesterday’s introduction to Kitchen Essentials, today Alice Meadows interviews Adam Hyde of Coko for the first post in this new series.
Introducing Kitchen Essentials — Interviews with the Scholarly Infrastructure Community
Today, Alice Meadows and Roger Schonfeld introduce a new interview series – Kitchen Essentials – featuring leaders of some of the key scholarly infrastructure organizations globally.
Chefs Panel Discusses AI, Integrity and Open Content in Frankfurt
A report of the Chef’s panel on AI, Open content, and research integrity during the Frankfurt Book Fair.
AI and Scholarly Societies
Robert Harington provides a template for scholarly societies wondering how to grapple with the overwhelming and omnipresent prospect of an AI future.
GPT, Large Language Models, and the Trough of Disillusionment
In 2023, AI has been back in the news in a big way. Large Language Models and ChatGPT threatened our’s and many other industries with huge disruption. As with so many threatened techno-shocks, a large degree of this one was hype, but what will happen after the hype fades. What, if anything, will be the lasting legacy of ChatGPT?