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How Q&A systems based on large language models (eg GPT4) will change things if they become the dominant search paradigm — 9 implications for libraries

Warning : Speculative piece! I recently did a keynote at the IATUL 2023 conference where I talked about the possible impact of large language models (LLMs) on academic libraries. Transformer based language models whether encoder-based ones like BERT (Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers) or auto-regressive decoder-based ones like GPT (Generative…

Large Language Models

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Large Language Models

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The next generation discovery citation indexes — a review of the landscape in 2020 (I)

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). …

Discovery

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Discovery

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4+1 Different Ways Large Language Models like GPT4 are helping to improve information retrieval

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. …

ChatGPT

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4+1 Different Ways Large Language Models like GPT4 are helping to improve information retrieval

ChatGPT

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Apr 5

Large Language Models — More developments and thoughts

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…

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Large Language Models — More developments and thoughts

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·Feb 28

Using Large language models like GPT to do Q&A over papers (II) — using Perplexity.ai (free) over CORE, Scite.ai, Semantic Scholar etc domains

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…

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Using Large language models like GPT to do Q&A over papers (II) — using Perplexity.ai

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·Feb 27

Using 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 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…

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Using the latest Large language models like GPT to do Q&A over webpages or papers (I)

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·Dec 22, 2022

Large Language Models (e.g., GPT-3) and the problem of plagiarism — one academic librarian’s musing

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. …

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Large Language Models (e.g., GPT-3) and the problem of plagiarism — one academic librarian’s musing

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·Dec 6, 2022

Are we undervaluing Open Access by not correctly factoring in the potentially huge impacts of Machine learning? — An academic librarian’s view (I)

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. …

Open Access

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Open Access

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Mar 20, 2022

3+1 Innovative tools that can help you create a Literature review — Research Matrix of papers — Scholarcy, Elicit.org, Lateral.io and Notion/Obsidian/Roam Research…

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. …

Literature Review

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Literature Review

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·Aug 15, 2021

ResearchRabbit is out of beta- my review of this new literature mapping tool

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…

Literature Review

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ResearchRabbit is out of beta- my review of this new literature mapping tool

Literature Review

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