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From the National Library of Medicine Technical Bulletin: The National Library of Medicine (NLM) has recently added a new repository to the Dataset Catalog, a catalog of biomedical datasets from selected publicly available repositories. Based on feedback from users, NLM will gradually add new repositories to the initial four — dbGap, Dryad, ImmPort, and Harvard […]

Gender Equality Artificial Intelligence and Gender Equality (via UN Women) Google Google’s AI Summaries Cause Headaches and Spawn Memes (via Axios) The Reason That Google’s AI Suggests Using Glue on Pizza Shows a Deep Flaw with Tech Companies’ AI Obsession (via Futurism) Guidelines Guidelines for Academics Aim to Lessen Ethical Pitfalls in Generative-AI Use (via […]

From Stanford University Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence: Large language models have a documented tendency to “hallucinate,” or make up false information. In one highly-publicized case, a New York lawyer faced sanctions for citing ChatGPT-invented fictional cases in a legal brief; many similar cases have since been reported. And our previous study of general-purpose chatbots found that they hallucinated between 58% and 82% […]

From the Irish Star: The manuscript of John Milton’s epic poem Paradise Lost was translated into the Irish language in the 19th century. Since then, scholars believed that it was irretrievably lost. Recently, through meticulous examination of an existing microfilm copy in the National Library of Ireland, researchers were finally able to trace its whereabouts. The […]

From Oxford University Press: We recently conducted a survey of over 2,000 researchers across geographies, subject disciplines—including Humanities, STM, and Social Sciences—and different career stages to hear directly from the research community about how they are reacting to and using AI in their work. The results reveal the key considerations in researchers’ decisions to engage with AI, […]

Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Research Libraries Prepare for a World of AI-Influenced Research and Scholarship BioOne BioOne Announces Early Publisher Commitments to Subscribe to Open (S2O) Pilot Media The Washington Post Tells Staff It’s Pivoting to AI (via Futurism) ORCID Nominations Now Open For ORCID Board Elections 2025! SCOSS (Global Sustainability Coalition for Open […]

From an ARL Blog Post by: Xuemao Wang, Northwestern University Christy Long, University of Oregon Catherine Steeves, Western University Cynthia Hudson Vitale, ARL At the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Spring Meeting in Boston, library and information technology leaders explored and examined the recently released ARL/CNI 2035 Scenarios: AI-Influenced Futures in the Research Environment. When utilizing […]

The Research Libraries UK (RLUK) Digital Shift Forum event video embedded below was recorded on Wednesday, May 22, 2024. Title New Digital Frontiers: AI & Machine Learning in Libraries New Digital Frontiers will explore the role AI and Machine learning can play in our libraries, the platforms we use, the challenges we face and the […]

From Town Topics: Before he graduated from Yale Law School and became a MacArthur Fellow, Reginald Dwayne Betts spent nine years in prison after pleading guilty to carjacking. He was only 16. It was the availability of books, and the engagement with literature, that got him through those years without crushing his spirit. An award-winning […]