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Document chat: an early AI use case

AI-assisted document query and summarization services are becoming more common. This post compares the 'ask a PDF' outputs of several services. Overall responses were good, with reasonable variation, and no significant hallucinations. It also touches on some characteristics of AI-based services.

Lorcan Dempsey Dec 4, 2024 24 min read

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Libraries, AI and the messy middle

Introduces an annotated presentation about AI, libraries and a range of related issues. It is influenced by the consequences of considering AI as a new 'cultural technology.'

Lorcan Dempsey Jun 5, 2024 3 min read

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AI, OpenAI and the evolving AI environment

For a few days recently, the news was dominated by reports of organizational upheaval at OpenAI. Here are some reflections on what happened, with some connections to library topics.

Lorcan Dempsey Dec 17, 2023 12 min read

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Using a custom GPT to ask about collections and collaboration

OpenAI now allows you to develop custom chatbots which use the power of GPT4 but can be tailored to work with your data and carry out particular actions. I discuss them in general and introduce an example built on some of my own publications.

Lorcan Dempsey Dec 8, 2023 9 min read

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AI ... and the rhinoceros in the room redux

Understanding the discussion about AI benefits from hands-on experience of tools and services.

Lorcan Dempsey Dec 3, 2023 6 min read

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Generative AI and libraries: seven contexts

Libraries are engaging with AI in their educational, service and policy work. This post discusses seven contexts in which that work is taking place.

Lorcan Dempsey Nov 12, 2023 30 min read

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Generative AI, scholarly and cultural language models, and the return of content

AI momentum continues to grow, and we are seeing more applications in the scholarly and cultural spaces. Several organizations have been creating specialist large language models based on reservoirs of curated scientific and cultural data.

Lorcan Dempsey Jun 28, 2023 22 min read

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Generative AI and large language models: background and contexts

The promise and challenge of Generative AI is now central. This is a summary overview of some of the major directions and issues, acknowledging that things are moving very quickly. I intend it as background to later posts about library implications and developments.

Lorcan Dempsey May 24, 2023 49 min read

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Hallucination and collections

I asked HuggingChat about library collections. It is definitely hallucinating in its responses.

Lorcan Dempsey May 13, 2023 3 min read

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