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2024/01/18

Generative AI and libraries: 7 contexts

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This post discusses seven contexts in which artificial intelligence (AI) is used. This post transitions from the more general AI discussion in earlier posts to one more focused on libraries, before looking more closely at potential library services and responses in an upcoming fourth post. The author concludes that the library discussion is necessarily moving towards forms of engagement, cautiously. For now, extra care and special attention are certainly warranted.

You can read the previous posts:

  1. Generative AI and large language models: background and contexts
  2. Generative AI, scholarly and cultural language models, and the return of content