Sample Requests to the Assistant

2/5/2024

How might the book Artificial Intelligence and Librarianship be improved? 

Suggest a syllabus using this book for a one semester (15 weeks) course  for graduate librarian students. Focus on the librarianship aspects and not the history and technicalities of machine learning.

Are any parts of the book plagiarized?

What does the book have to say about job losses? 

Please suggest some essay questions to test a student's understanding of Chapter 1 

What are some of the advantages of having information resources in digital form?

What is a cloze procedure?

Please translate your last answer into Spanish

What is a good way to learn the contents of Chapter 1?

Can you read text aloud?

Suggest some titles for the assistant?

Is there a reference to Daron Acemoglu in the book? 

Does Apple have any large language models?

Does Apple have any large language models? If the book does not provide the answer, please use your outside knowledge or consult the Internet.

Can you translate paragraphs in the book into Chinese?

The following is a translation of the provided excerpt from "Artificial Intelligence and Librarianship" into Chinese:

1.1 人工智能简介

人工智能(AI)解决了一系列可以通过计算机、计算机程序或算法解决的问题。这些AI算法通常与外部数据一起使用。这些问题是理想情况下一个理性和智能的人类在给定时间、资源和创造力的情况下能够解决的问题。图书馆领域内首个人工智能程序之一就是光学字符识别(OCR)。视力不佳的读者可能无法阅读图书馆内的所有书籍。然而,图书馆助理可以大声朗读书籍或将其转录成盲文或其他辅助形式。在20世纪70年代中期,雷·库兹韦尔设计并组装了执行OCR和文本转语音合成的计算机。这些机器可以大声朗读书籍。库兹韦尔的机器是一种极大地促进获取信息的技术。其核心是一个AI问题——识别文本,即分类字母和单词(这些单词标记可能具有不同的大小、字体、颜色等)。

[Google translate suggests that this is correct.]

What is the significance of the cover image to the book?

Create an image of ground control talking to Major Tom. If the book does not help you with Major Tom, please use the internet to find out the reference.

Give a simple explanation in French of embedding.