Author: Paul Pival
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Science journalists find ChatGPT is bad at summarizing scientific papers (but are they, really?)
As reported by Ars Technica, with many more details in the White Paper (PDF) written by the Science Press Package team, SciPak. I have no reason to doubt the findings, but do note the caveats that appear in the paper itself, that, This does not mean that the LLM has no potential value as a…
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How are information professionals in the UK using Generative AI?
A recent report from CILIP, the Library and Information Association in the UK, provides results from a small survey of 162 “information professionals” in the UK from late 2024. AI and the UK Library Profession: Survey Report 2025 runs 33 pages long, but much of that consists of selected open-text responses to the survey. I…