Keeping up with AI…
Lauren Hays
If you are like me, you find keeping current with the quickly changing landscape of artificial intelligence (AI) challenging.
However, I believe it is important to stay up-to-date, so I have sought out resources to help me. In this post, I want to mention changes to AI as well as share resources that I have found useful for staying current.
Changes
- In the spring, OpenAI announced Sora. Sora will create video from text.
- In May, OpenAI announced ChatGPT-4o. This newest version of ChatGPT allows a person to talk to the AI and receive verbal responses. Eventually, this ChatGPT-4o will be available to all users.
- Project Astra from Google is moving forward with a responsive AI agent.
- Claude now uses various external tools to answer requests.
Resources
- Ethan Mollick’s Open Useful Thing Substack: I have found reading everything Ethan Mollick writes to be useful. He is practical, insightful, and writes in a very accessible way about the complexities of AI.
- Press releases:
- Product Hunt curates tools and has a specific AI section
- Mindstream Newsletter
- The Edge Newsletter
I hope this information is beneficial, and you find resources that help you stay current. Even though many people have still not integrated AI into their daily lives, the rate at which it is expanding means it is going to be impossible to avoid. In fact, for many, it will likely be so integrated in places we already spend time (email, Drive, Slack, etc.) the incorporation of its use may not be a hard shift.
Lauren Hays
Dr. Lauren Hays is an Assistant Professor of Instructional Technology at the University of Central Missouri, and a frequent presenter and interviewer on topics related to libraries and librarianship. Please read Lauren’s other posts relevant to special librarians. Take a look at Lucidea’s powerful integrated library systems, SydneyDigital, and GeniePlus, used daily by innovative special librarians in libraries of all types, sizes and budgets.
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