Chinese translated version available here In terms of cross disciplinary citation indexes that are used for discovery, everyone knows of the two incumbants — Web of Science and Scopus(2004). Joined by the large web scale Google Scholar (2004), these three reigned as the “Big 3” of citation indexes for roughly…

Warning: I am not a data or information scientist; this is a new area I am trying to learn about The rise of large language models, such as GPT-3, GPT-4, ChatGPT, and BERT, has dramatically improved information retrieval in recent years. With their natural language capabilities, these models are enabling…

In 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 paradigm, I shared my first thoughts about these new class of search systems. But things are really moving fast around large language models (LLMs) and…

Summary : In this blog post, I delve into the use of Perplexity.ai, a startup that combines search engine results with GPT-3 results like Bing’s new chatbot. But instead of letting it get results from all over the net, I test with a few examples what happens if you restrict…

One early commentary to the “threat” of large language model (LLM)tools like ChatGPT is that in general such tools currently make up references a lot. Already we see librarians reporting students asking to find fake references generated by ChatGPT. Of course, as I have noted this state of affairs…

I have been playing around and trying to learn by reading papers about Large Language Models (LLM) since 2020 when OpenAI’s GPT-3 was released. My interest has mostly been on the potential of the state of art capabilities natural language processing that LLMs brings to improve discovery, particularly in…

Synopsis : I have recently adjusted my view to the position that the benefits of Machine learning techniques are more likely to be real and large. This is based on the recent incredible results of LLM (Large Language models) and about a year’s experimenting with some of the newly emerging…

Years ago, as a final year undergraduate doing my undergraduate thesis, my supervisor at the time, introduced me to this popular way of summarizing related papers. You would create a table listing relevant and related papers in each row, with columns representing common characteristics of the paper for comparison. So…

What is Research Rabbit? ResearchRabbit has been a tool that has been in beta for a while. Until recently, access to it was limited via an invite system, but this changed last week and anyone can now try it. But what is it? ResearchRabbit is in the class of products and services that I…