A decade ago in 2012, I observed how the dominance of Google had slowly affected how Academic databases and OPACs/ catalogues (now discovery services) work.

On September 2023, OpenAI announced that ChatGPT Plus would be enhanced in three ways 1. It would allow you to speak directly with GPT and it would also be able to reply in voice 2. It would be able to create images using DALL-E 3, OpenAI's image generation model 3. It would be able to accept image inputs Since I finally gained access to these features, I will briefly review them with my thoughts on how impactful they might be for

List of academic search engines that use Large Language models for generative answers (for the latest version - see this page) This is a non-comprehensive list of academic search engines that use generative AI (almost always Large language models) to generate direct answers on top of list of relevant results, typically using Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) Techniques. We expect a lot more!

I've been a subscriber of OpenAI's ChatGPT plus for a while though I have been struggling to justify it to myself for a while until recently.

I was asked to give a talk at CILIP Conference 2023 for the Data & AI panel. I was given 10 minutes to send a recording which I eventually delivered.  But here's an extended 40-minute recording before I cut it down. As I was just practicing, the delivery might not be the best, and in fact the final 10-minute version might be better!