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I’m no longer concerned about energy use and ChatGPT
Last week, I tripped across a couple of posts from MIT that I thought included the clearest explanations I’d seen of the cost and *reasons* for the cost of training and using Generative AI. Explained: Generative AI’s environmental impactandThe multifaceted challenge of powering AI I added those to my list of bookmarks on the topic,…
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Librarians and teachers amongst the heaviest users of AI – The 2025 AI Index Report
OK, that's a clickbait title, but only a little. They're actually amongst the heaviest users of Claude, according to Anthropic (PDF), via the 2025 AI Index Report from Stanford's Institute for Human-Centered AI. The report itself is a 456-page PDF, so do start with the key takeaways, but then either search for specific words of…
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The State of Generative AI Use in Canada 2025: Exploring Public Attitudes and Adoption Trends
This is a very current report, with questions being collected between Feb 19-March 1, 2025. From the Social Media Lab at the Ted Rogers School of Management, Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU), The State of Generative AI Use in Canada 2025: Exploring Public Attitudes and Adoption Trends. 1,500 Canadians were asked questions about their use and knowledge of generative…
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Using ChatGPT to keep up on the news is like using a potato to commute to work.
The title for this post came from Stephen Downes as a comment to my Mastodon post last year on the first article in this series: ChatGPT’s search results for news are ‘unpredictable’ and frequently inaccurate. “Building on our previous research, the Tow Center for Digital Journalism conducted tests on eight generative search tools with live…
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How to increase memory available to VOSviewer on Windows
I’ve been poking at VOSviewer while helping a student figure out whether it’ll be helpful for a bibliographic analysis project, and I was stymied by running out of memory when attempting to work with a large dataset. The manual (PDF) unhelpfully addresses this issue with a whole section: But there is no VOSviewer.jar file to…