PinnedAaron TayHow Q&A systems based on large language models (eg GPT4) will change things if they become the norm9 implications for librariesMar 28, 2023Mar 28, 2023
PinnedAaron TayinAcademic librarians and open accessThe next generation discovery citation indexes — a review of the landscape a 2020 (I)Everyone knows of the big 3 citation indexes — Web of Science Scopus & Google Scholar, but how do they compare to the new ones?Oct 7, 20206Oct 7, 20206
Aaron TayWhy Blindly Applying Prompt Engineering Techniques to RAG Systems a bad ideaNote: This is a GPT4 summarised and edited version of a much longer and specific post — Prompt engineering with Retrieval Augmented…Aug 23Aug 23
Aaron TayBoolean vs Keyword/Lexical search vs Semantic — keeping things straightAs a librarian I received a minimal amount of education in information retrieval and most of my knowledge is purely practical.Nov 26, 20231Nov 26, 20231
Aaron TayinGoPenAI4+1 Different Ways Large Language Models like GPT4 are helping to improve information retrievalA easy to understand guide to how large language models are used to support search. Include academic search engine examples as well.Jun 7, 2023Jun 7, 2023
Aaron TayLarge Language Models — More developments and thoughtsIn my last long blog post, How Q&A systems based on large language models (eg GPT4) will change things if they become the dominant search…Apr 5, 2023Apr 5, 2023
Aaron TayinAcademic librarians and open accessUsing Large language models like GPT to do Q&A over papers (II) — using Perplexity.aiI delve into the use of Perplexity.ai, a startup that combines search engine results with GPT-3 to query papers directly for answersFeb 28, 2023Feb 28, 2023
Aaron TayinAcademic librarians and open accessUsing the latest Large language models like GPT to do Q&A over webpages or papers (I)One early commentary to the “threat” of large language model (LLM)tools like ChatGPT is that in general such tools currently make up…Feb 27, 2023Feb 27, 2023
Aaron TayinAcademic librarians and open accessLarge Language Models (e.g., GPT-3) and the problem of plagiarism — one academic librarian’s musingDec 22, 2022Dec 22, 2022
Aaron TayinAcademic librarians and open accessAre we undervaluing Open Access by not correctly evaluating the potentially huge impacts of…Synopsis : I have recently adjusted my view to the position that the benefits of Machine learning techniques are more likely to be real…Dec 6, 2022Dec 6, 2022