April 19, 2024 by Gary Price
The video recording linked and embedded below was recorded at the Coalition For Networked Information (CNI) Spring 2024 Membership Meeting on Monday, March 25, 2024. You can find more session recordings from the meeting listed and linked here. Title: The ARL/CNI Task Force on AI Futures Scenarios for the Research Enterprise and Research Libraries Description […]
April 6, 2024 by Gary Price
From The NY Times: The race to lead A.I. has become a desperate hunt for the digital data needed to advance the technology. To obtain that data, tech companies including OpenAI, Google and Meta have cut corners, ignored corporate policies and debated bending the law, according to an examination by The New York Times. At […]
March 24, 2024 by Gary Price
The RLUK24 (Research Libraries UK) “New Frontiers: The Expanding Scope of the Modern Research Library” took place virtually from March 22-24, 2024. Below, find links to video recordings of conference keynotes, panels, workshops, and roundtables. You can also access a video playlist of these sessions on YouTube. The complete event agenda is available here. Video […]
January 24, 2024 by Gary Price
The U.S. Senate Committee on Rules & Administration hearing video linked below was recorded on January 24, 2024. Witnesses List & Links to Prepared Testimony Dr. Carla Hayden Librarian Of Congress, Library Of Congress Hugh Nathanial Halpern Director, U.S. Government Publishing Office Ms. Meroë Park Deputy Secretary And Chief Operating Officer, Smithsonian Institution Washington , D.C. Video […]
January 4, 2024 by Gary Price
From OverDrive: Librarians and educators achieved new milestones in 2023 by providing increasingly robust streaming options to satisfy the interests of all ages and audiences. Readers worldwide borrowed 662 million ebooks, audiobooks and digital magazines, a 19 percent increase over 2022. This growth was driven by a regular cadence of new release blockbuster titles, as […]
December 24, 2023 by Gary Price
Digital Curation Network (DCN) DCN Response to NSF Public Access Plan 2.0 Events Lecture: National Libraries in the Digital Era―Focusing on the Strategies of the National Library of the Netherlands (via National Diet Library, Japan) ||| Presentation Materials?Slides ||| Video Recording UNESCO Number of Countries with Open Science Policies Has Almost Doubled Since Adoption of […]
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December 23, 2023 by Gary Price
AI/GPT Interview: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Discusses the Promise and Potential Perils of AI (via Morning Edition/NPR) Digital Libraries Learn About: La Bibliothèque Mondiale du Cheval (World Horse Library) Research Tools Free Law Project Powers ProPublica’s New App About SCOTUS Investments (via FLP) ||| Direct to ProPublica’s New “Supreme Connections” App
December 20, 2023 by Gary Price
AI/GPT Journal Article: We Must Fix the Lack of Transparency Around the Data Used to Train Foundation Models (via HDSR) Preprint: Early ChatGPT User Portrait through the Lens of Data (via arXiv) Policy Brief: Students’ Use of Generative AI: The Threat of Hallucinations (via CDT) Elsevier Scopus Will Remove the Source Homepage Links From All […]
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December 11, 2023 by Gary Price
From Pew Research: Despite negative headlines and growing concerns about social media’s impact on youth, teens continue to use these platforms at high rates – with some describing their social media use as “almost constant,” according to a new Pew Research Center report. Roughly nine-in-ten U.S. teens say they use YouTube, making it the most […]
November 17, 2023 by Gary Price
From the University of Chicago: How can we adopt AI in an ethical way? What kinds of work will soon be done by algorithms? How will AI affect the economy, education, politics, and society at large? Hear from UChicago faculty experts as they discuss the promises and perils of artificial intelligence. Discussion Moderator Torsten Reimer, […]