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This is an excerpt from a longer contribution I made to Responses to the LIS Forward Position Paper: Ensuring a Vibrant Future for LIS in iSchools.

This is an excerpt from a longer contribution I made to Responses to the LIS Forward Position Paper: Ensuring a Vibrant Future for LIS in iSchools.

This is an excerpt from a longer contribution I made to Responses to the LIS Forward Position Paper: Ensuring a Vibrant Future for LIS in iSchools.

This is an excerpt from a longer contribution I made to Responses to the LIS Forward Position Paper: Ensuring a Vibrant Future for LIS in iSchools.

Cliff has left a major legacy and a large gap.

This is an excerpt from a longer contribution I made to Responses to the LIS Forward Position Paper: Ensuring a Vibrant Future for LIS in iSchools.

Introduction: boundaries between reading, interaction and workflow are blurring It is useful to think about AI as a new cultural technology, a phrase development psychologist Alison Gopnik has been using.

I am one year into my two-year term as a Distinguished Practitioner in Residence at the Information School at the University of Washington.

I am trying something new.

Smile is a very engaging novel.

We can recognize the importance of 'soft skills' while acknowledging that 'soft' has multiple associations that may be misleadingly at variance with the importance of those skills.

For a while the OpenAI 'ouster' was the top story on the New York Times home page, and they devoted considerable ongoing coverage to it.

Customizing Chatbots and agents - the GPT OpenAI has made some big announcements about enhancements recently, including the ability to create custom chatbots, called GPTs (which seems like an unnecessarily confusing name?).

We are becoming familiar with a new vocabulary and new practices: prompt engineering, image generation, hallucination, and so on.

This is the third in a series of three on Generative AI.