March 12, 2024 by Gary Price
From the AP: Librarians in several states have been pushing for legislation to rein in the costs and restrictions on electronic material, which has been growing in popularity since the COVID-19 pandemic. Patrons are stuck on long waiting lists for audio and e-books, and digital offerings are limited. This year, lawmakers in states including Connecticut, […]
March 10, 2024 by Gary Price
From Dagbladet (via Google Translate) Artificial intelligence has made inroads into literature. Now Swedish users of Storytel can switch between different artificial voices when listening to books. In addition to the usual narration voice, various AI-generated voices are also offered such as: Carin, a female and slightly more mature voice. Amanda, a younger female voice […]
March 8, 2024 by Gary Price
From a Library Innovation Lab Post: We want academics and nonprofits at the table in discovering the next generation of legal interfaces and helping to close the justice gap. It is not at all clear yet which legal AI tools and interfaces will work effectively for people with different levels of skill, what kind of […]
March 7, 2024 by Gary Price
From an Ithaka S+R Blog Post by the Report’s Co-Authors, Claire Baytas and Dylan Ruediger): As part of our Making AI Generative for Higher Education project, conducted in partnership with 19 colleges and universities, Ithaka S+R has been closely tracking the GAI product landscape through a unique Product Tracking Tool. The Product Tracker includes a basic description […]
March 6, 2024 by Gary Price
From Apple: Today [4/5] Apple introduces transcripts for Apple Podcasts, an innovative new feature that makes podcasts more accessible and easier to navigate. With transcripts, users can read the full text of an episode, search the episode for a specific word or phrase, and tap on the text to play the podcast from that point […]
March 5, 2024 by Gary Price
From The Verge: OpenAI’s new Read Aloud feature for ChatGPT could come in handy when users are on the go by reading its responses in one of five voice options out loud to users. It is now available on both the web version of ChatGPT and the iOS and Android ChatGPT apps. Read Aloud can speak […]
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March 4, 2024 by Gary Price
From CNBC: Anthropic on Monday debuted Claude 3, a suite of artificial intelligence models that it says are its fastest and most powerful yet. The new tools are called Claude 3 Opus, Sonnet and Haiku. The company said the most capable of the new models, Claude 3 Opus, outperformed OpenAI’s GPT-4 and Google’s Gemini Ultra […]
February 28, 2024 by Gary Price
UPDATE March 4, 2024 More News From Digital Science: New AI-Powered Summarization Launched for Dimensions Digital Science is delighted to announce the launch of AI-driven summarization in Dimensions, a new feature to support the user in their discovery process for publications, grants, patents and clinical trials. [Clip] Today’s announcement follows last week’s release of Dimensions Research GPT and […]
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February 20, 2024 by Gary Price
From CNBC: Adobe on Tuesday launched an artificial intelligence assistant in its Reader and Acrobat applications that can produce summaries of and answer questions about PDFs and other documents. The AI assistant, currently in beta, is now available on Acrobat, “with features coming to Reader over the coming days and weeks,” according to a news release. […]
February 16, 2024 by Gary Price
From Federal News Radio: It took 13 years — with some stops, starts and stumbles in between — but as of today, the federal government now has a single website designed to deliver detailed, searchable information about all federal programs. The Office of Management and Budget flipped the switch Thursday on the new Federal Program Inventory, […]