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AI Roundup: Charting the Future of Scholarly Knowledge with AI: A Community Perspective; ResearchQA: Evaluating Scholarly Question Answering at Scale Across 75 Fields with Survey-Mined Questions and Rubrics; & More Headlines
| News, Patrons and Users, Publishing, Roundup, Scholarly Communications
Higher Education The New Thing on Campus: Why Universities are Appointing Their First Chief AI Officers (via Fortune) Literacy Beyond Tool Use: Tracking the Evolution of Generative AI Literacy Among University Students Through a Process-Oriented Investigation (via Computers and Education: Artificial Intelligence) Politics The President Blamed AI and Embraced Doing So. Is It Becoming The […]
Media Roundup + Statements: “Anthropic Agrees to Pay $1.5 Billion to Settle Lawsuit With Book Authors”
| Associations and Organizations, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Data Files, Libraries, News, Roundup
Primary Document: Settlement Agreement (39 pages; PDF) (via CourtListener) From The NY Times: In a landmark settlement, Anthropic, a leading artificial intelligence company, has agreed to pay $1.5 billion to a group of authors and publishers after a judge ruled it had illegally downloaded and stored millions of copyrighted books. The settlement is largest payout […]
AI Roundup: “Prompt Engineering is So 2024. Try These Prompt Templates Instead”; “Navigating the Artificial Intelligence Frontier on Cataloguing and Metadata Work in Libraries”; “Do Large Language Models Dream of AI Agents?”; & More
| Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Interviews, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Patrons and Users, Profiles, Roundup
Autonomous Agents The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Autonomous Research: A Survey of Scientific Agents (preprint via TechRxiv) Deep Research: A Survey of Autonomous Research Agents (preprint; via arXiv) Higher Education Understanding Student Attitudes and Acceptability of GenAI Tools in Higher Ed: Scale Development and Evaluation (preprint via arXiv) Large Language Models (LLMs) Do Large Language Models […]
Company News Roundup: Items From/About Anthropic, Digital Science; Emerald, and Thomson Reuters
| News, Open Access, Publishing, Roundup
+ AI For Lawyers: Thomson Reuters Launches CoCounsel Legal: Transforming Legal Work with Agentic AI and Deep Research + Anthropic Presses For Fast Appeal in Copyright Fight (via MediaPost) + Emerald Publishing to Safeguard Research Integrity with Dimensions Author Check + Google Begins Offering One Year of Free Access to Gemini Pro For College Students […]
Alabama Alabama Library Leader Calls Out ‘Censorship’ Amid Push to Remove Books With ‘Positive Portrayals’ of Transgender People (via AL.com) Another Alabama Library Debating What’s Appropriate For Children – ‘It’s an Agenda (via AL.com) California Laird, Pellerin secure $4.5 million for Santa Cruz library project Idaho/Washington Regional library consortium will dissolve Louisiana Livingston Parish library […]
Roundup: New Online/Digital Collections (1893 World’s Fair; Huey P. Newton; and More)
| Archives and Special Collections, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Funding, Interactive Tools, Libraries, News, Open Access, Roundup
Roundup Griffin MSI’s New Online Collection Lets Visitors Experience the 1893 World’s Fair — and More (via Chicago Sun-Times) The 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition has begun, and people dressed in their Victorian finest are headed into the south portico of the fair’s Palace of Fine Arts, a building that looks as if it has come […]
AI The Scientific Reason Why ChatGPT Leads You Down Rabbit Holes (via News.com) How We Really Judge AI (via MIT News) AI Literacy AI Literacy the Trojan Horse to Information Literacy? Insights From Our AI Literacy Cohort Workshops ||| Applying AI Literacy to Student and Faculty Personas Bots Library IT vs. the AI Bots (via […]
AI Roundup: “AI and the Dynamic Supply of Training Data”; How Much Information Do LLMs Really Memorize? Now We Know, Thanks to Meta, Google, Nvidia and Cornell”; “Whose Name Comes Up? Auditing LLM-Based Scholar Recommendations”; & More
| Data Files, News, Roundup
Agents A Comprehensive Survey of Agents for Computer Use: Foundations, Challenges, and Future Directions (preprint; via arXiv) Claude/Anthropic Claude.ai Gets a New Retrieval Mode (via The Decoder) LLMs How Much Information Do LLMs Really Memorize? Now We Know, Thanks to Meta, Google, Nvidia and Cornell (via Venture Beat) || Preprint Perplexity Perplexity Received 780 Million […]
AI Roundup: Teachers Are Not OK; Hey Chatbot, is This True? AI ‘Factchecks’ Sow Misinformation; How Far Will AI Go to Defend Its Own Survival?; & More Headlines
| Data Files, News, Roundup
Copyright The AI Copyright Standoff Continues – With No Solution in Sight (via @BBC) Deep Research How Good Are AI Agents at Real Research? Inside the Deep Research Bench Report (via Unite.ai) ||| Preprint: Deep Research Bench (DRB): Evaluating Web Research Agents (via FutureSearch) LLMs How Far Will AI Go to Defend Its Own Survival? […]
AI Roundup: “Xinyu AI Search: Enhanced Relevance and Comprehensive Results with Rich Answer Presentations:”; “Extracting Research Instruments from Educational Literature Using LLMs”; & More Headlines
| Data Files, Journal Articles, News, Patrons and Users, Roundup, Video Recordings
Chatbots AI Chatbots Become Dramatically Less Reliable in Longer Conversations, New Study Finds (via The Decoder) Extraction Extracting Research Instruments From Educational Literature Using LLMs (preprint, via arXiv) Licensing New York Times and Amazon Announce Licensing Agreement (via NYTCO) “With this new agreement, Amazon is licensing editorial content from The New York Times, NYT Cooking, […]
