AI Roundup: “A New Kind of Digital Swarm Has Arrived”, AI Bots: “Tunnelling Locusts – Further Reflections On the OAPEN Library and DOAB’s Response Time”; Ottawa Rushes to Build Its Own AI Translator as Government Use of Free Tools Soars; & More Headlines

AI Literacy

A Structured Unplugged Approach For Foundational AI Literacy in Primary Education (preprint, via arXiv)

OAPEN/DOAB

“A New Kind Of Digital Swarm Has Arrived”, AI Bots: “Tunnelling Locusts – Further Reflections On the OAPEN Library and DOAB’s Response Time”

From the OAPEN Post by Ronald Snijder:

In my previous post on our less than optimal performance of the OAPEN Library and DOAB, I wrote about the effect of AI bots on our systems, and that it has become a common problem for many sites providing open access (OA) or open source software content. All of them – including the OAPEN Library and DOAB – see a new threat: not censorship or budget cuts, but bots. A new kind of digital swarm has arrived, and it’s putting serious pressure on our infrastructure, especially the OAPEN Library. In this blog, I will discuss in some detail our ongoing work to prevent us from being overrun by AI bots.

Libraries

Experimenting with Generative Artificial Intelligence on Library Blogs (via University of Michigan Library)

Multimedia

We Made a Film With AI. You’ll Be Blown Away—and Freaked Out (via WSJ /MSN)

RAG

S3: The New RAG Framework That Trains Search Agents With Minimal Data (via VentureBeat)

Training

Translation

Canada: Ottawa Rushes to Build Its Own AI Translator as Government Use of Free Tools Soars (via The Logic)

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