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Education Spending – Current – Damage to Education by Cuts – DrWeb – ChatGPT
Correction: Corrected post, the original showed I used Perplexity. It was ChatGPT instead. 1. Education in the Federal Budget & GDP 👉 So:• ≈ 4 % of the federal budget is Education Department funding.• Government education outlays are about 5.4 % of GDP, including state and local contributions. 2. What happens to the billions rescinded last night by…
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ChatGPT and Generative AI Tools for Learning and Research | Online Searcher | Computers in Libraries
By Bohyun Kim, September 1, 2023 (posted) Many sophisticated machine learning (ML) products recently have been introduced as general-purpose content-creation tools. The one that has garnered the most attention was ChatGPT, a chatbot powered by the large language model (LLM) GPT-3.5. An LLM is a type of ML model that performs various natural language processing tasks—such as…
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Philip K. Dick predicted ChatGPT and its grim ramifications
Dick’s novel “The Penultimate Truth” already showed us how AI that writes according to prompt can be corrupted By David Gill, Published June 10, 2023 10:59AM (EDT) Philip K. Dick had some strange ideas about the future. In his 40-plus novels and 121 short stories, the science fiction author imagined everything from “mood organs” which…
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“Do We Need Librarians Now that We Have ChatGPT?”
Where ChatGPT and librarians collide. Posted on May 15, 2023 in Blog Posts When discussions about ChatGPT began some months ago, librarians immediately started the conversation about its implications for education. Now, several debacles and many dire warnings later, we’re already on the next version (ChatGPT-4) and dealing with multiple AI-powered chatbots. Even experienced tech…
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Is ChatGPT Closer to a Human Librarian Than It Is to Google?
A search engine researcher explains the promise and peril of letting ChatGPT and its cousins search the web for you. By Chirag Shah, Published March 19, 2023 The prominent model of information access and retrieval before search engines became the norm – librarians and subject or search experts providing relevant information – was interactive, personalized,…
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Artificial Intelligence and the Research Paper: A Librarian’s Perspective – News | SMU Libraries
By: Jonathan McMichael, Undergraduate Success Librarian AI writing can mimic style, but it cannot mimic substance yet. The release of a powerful, free and easy-to-use large language model platform, Open AI’s ChatGPT, raises interesting questions about the future of writing in higher education. As the Undergraduate Success Librarian, I have a unique perspective on generative…




