Author: Paul Pival
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Saying goodbye to my Meta Ray-Bans
Earlier this month, I got a new pair of glasses to replace the Meta Ray-Bans I’ve been wearing every day since the fall of 2024. There’s nothing wrong with the Ray-Bans (some might disagree), but over the past few months, I have noticed people asking about my “spy camera” more frequently than I’m comfortable with.…
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More on AI, Data Centres and Environmental Costs
A pair of related posts hit my screen this week. And I continue to add resources such as these to my bookmark list at Energy and AI. Man, that IS a gross picture on the front of the Libguide.
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NVivo Mac – Support Ending for Rosetta 2
This morning, NVivo 15.5 threw up this warning that the software won’t be compatible with future versions of macOS. I found the following FAQ entry on the Lumivero Community pages, so fingers crossed they get there in time! When Rosetta 2 Support is EndingApple Support for intel-based apps will continue through MacOS 27 (expected in…
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Co-working and 25 years of eggs
I found this post by John Rush to be a fascinating read. Come for the vibe-coded infographics and confirmation that eggs are indeed more expensive, but stay for the deep dive into co-working with multiple AI tools. It’s also another reminder that, particularly around OCR, some tools are vastly better than others, so don’t get…
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One possible solution to ghost citations
Admittedly, it’s more of a band-aid approach, but it’s gotta be better than nothing. Aaron Tay has a lengthy post describing what’s going on with ghost references, and I’m thinking specifically about how Google Scholar creates them. Here’s a link to the example in question (now up to 56 citations!), and here are the sections…
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Updates to the Ithaka AI Product Tracker
One of the best collections of education-related AI tools, the Ithaka S+R Generative AI Product Tracker has been upgraded from Google Sheets to Airtable, according to a post on the Ithaka blog. They’ve also taken the opportunity to tweak which tools they’re covering: We have also refined the scope of the tracker. While our tracker…
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Mita’s observations on gatekeeping
When I saw the title of Mita’s most recent post, The internet was designed to route around gatekeepers, I was expecting and hoping for a cool example or tool along the lines of Jump the Paywall. Alas, her post is actually a sober reminder that “publishers don’t need academic libraries to reach faculty or students…
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ScienceDirect is marketing AI directly to students and researchers?
Very interesting – I just found myself looking at an article in ScienceDirect, and was presented with a large panel touting an AI Reading Assistant, something I know we don’t subscribe to at the U of Calgary. I wondered if maybe we DID subscribe to it, but it hadn’t yet been announced. After signing in…
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Free Course – RDMLA: AI for Librarians
From a press release: The RDMLA team is thrilled to announce the launch of our newest course: RDMLA: AI for Librarians! Artificial Intelligence is rapidly transforming the landscape of data and information services—and librarians are at the forefront of this change. That’s why we created AI for Librarians: a practical, hands-on course designed to help you build AI competencies in…
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Are you getting your news from AI? You might want to reconsider that…
New research coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC has found that AI assistants – already a daily information gateway for millions of people – routinely misrepresent news content no matter which language, territory, or AI platform is tested. The CBC and Radio-Canada were participating organizations. The actual report is…