Not surprising really, but I was interested to realize recently how much more real IPR issues are for my children than they were for me. A couple of indicators ….
Brand. They are very aware of brands – for clothes, accessories, and so on. More particularly, they have a sense of the ‘aura’ attaching to authentic items, reflected in the price ;-), and while understanding the attraction of copies definitely feel that they are second best. We were waiting in the car the other day and somebody walked past. There was a discussion in the back about whether his jeans were the real thing (I confess to not remembering the brand 😉 or a fake …
Media. Several things here. They are of course aware of the limitation on use of music downloaded from iTunes. However, they also realize that there are territorial differences and restrictions on how DVDs can be played, and have also experienced territorial restrictions on the use of media clips as in ….
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Generative AI, scholarly and cultural language models, and the return of content
AI momentum continues to grow, and we are seeing more applications in the scholarly and cultural spaces. Several organizations have been creating specialist large language models based on reservoirs of curated scientific and cultural data.
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Generative AI and large language models: background and contexts
The promise and challenge of Generative AI is now central. This is a summary overview of some of the major directions and issues, acknowledging that things are moving very quickly. I intend it as background to later posts about library implications and developments.
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The technology career ladder
Library leaders should be drawn from across the organization. Any idea that technology leaders are overly specialised or too distant from general library work is outmoded and counter-productive.
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