Guest Post — Fostering AI Adoption and Literacy Within Your Organization
How can organizations facilitate safe and comprehensive engagement with AI? And how can individuals within those organizations engage and advocate for their own AI literacy?
Repackaging Christie — Does AI Have a Role?
[…] It’s a niche publication that fifteen years ago would have found shelf space in a library’s reference room. Advocates of artificial intelligence legitimately note that ordinary people don’t want to have to flip through some alphabetically arranged roster to find an […]
AI-Enabled Transformation of Information Objects Into Learning Objects
A look at how AI tools support transforming information access into information comprehension.
Guest Post — Food for Thought: What Are We Feeding LLMs, and How Will this Impact Humanity?
Editor’s Note: Today’s post is by Stuart Leitch. Stuart is the Chief Technology Officer at Silverchair. Artificial intelligence and large language models have the potential to change, even disrupt, every aspect of scholarly publishing, from how infrastructure and platforms are developed […]
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.
Ask The Chefs: AI and Scholarly Communications
No one will dispute that AI ( Artificial Intelligence) needs to “eat” data, preferably in massive quantities, to develop. The better the data quality, the better the result. When thinking about the potential applications of AI in scholarly communications as related […]
Guest Post — Digital Humanities, Data Literacy Skills and AI: Understanding the Way Things Work
New data literacy and artificial literacy standards are necessary and emerging. The workflows and iterative mindsets the Digital Humanities can help inform our approaches.
Chefs de Cuisine: Perspectives from Publishing’s Top Table — Matthew Kissner
[…] with the changing needs of our customers, most recently in major markets like India and Brazil. We’re working to shape artificial intelligence (AI), not just by licensing our content for model training, but by building strategic partnerships with developers and R&D-intensive […]
Dispensed With A Matronly Air: Trust and AI
[…] raised about the use of AI in the recent restoration of Notre Dame. When a corporate entity works to understand artificial intelligence and the practical results of its use, that’s a sound investment of staff time and resources. BBC technicians and […]
Guest Post — Gatekeepers of Trust: Reaffirming the Publisher’s Role in Service of the Reader
[…] and reviewers. Editorial oversight is more than a mechanical process. It requires: Critical thinking Creative interpretation Nuanced understanding Scholarly intuition Artificial intelligence can efficiently manage routine tasks like initial manuscript screening, but it cannot replicate the depth of human judgment. The […]
AI Strategy, Governance, and Monetization in Scholarly Publishing: Lessons from Industry Front-Runners
[…] sustainable. For Publishers: Evaluate the return on investment for each model, optimize where possible, and consider sustainability in AI strategy. Intelligence Getting Cheaper The cost of delivering useful AI performance is dropping rapidly, especially for inference. For Publishers: More publishers […]
Guest Post — The Open Access – AI Conundrum: Does Free to Read Mean Free to Train?
[…] Management, she leads on Open Access and contributes to the society’s current work on the potential benefits and limitations of artificial intelligence (AI) in research and education. When the Open Access (OA) movement gained momentum in the early 2000s, its proponents […]
Are We Fumbling in the Dark or Laying a Strong Foundation for AI Education?
Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the academic landscape. It has become a powerful tool for researchers across disciplines and boundaries. From automating tedious literature reviews to analyzing complex datasets with unprecedented speed and precision, there is immense potential for what […]
How We Work, AI, and Human Engagement
[…] not imbedded in, and whose mortality is not compensated by, the species’ ever recurring life cycle. Work provides an “ artificial” world of things…..The human condition of work is worldliness.” In other words, when we work we produce something that […]
Thoughts on AI’s Impact on Scholarly Communications? An Interview with ChatGPT
As 2022 drew to a close, a great deal of popular attention was drawn to the latest artificial intelligence chatbot, ChatGPT, which was released in November 2022 by OpenAPI. (As an aside, the company has a had a very interesting background […]