Tag: search
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Coming to terms with generative AI – FAIMER Connect Continued Learning
Generative AI is transforming healthcare and education, offering unparalleled access to expertise across multiple knowledge domains. In this FAIMER Connect Learning series presentation, I explore its potential and challenges, from effective prompting to skills gap reduction. As AI reshapes professional practice, working with it as a collaborative partner is going to be key to successful…
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Using generative AI for search
Recently, I’ve shifted from using DuckDuckGo to consulting AI tools like Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini for information, especially on technical topics well-covered in training datasets. These AI tools often provide concise, note-like answers, similar to manual collations I used to do. Examples include managing partitions in Windows 11, running beta versions of software on Ubuntu,…
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AI is already an important part of clinical practice. Just not in the way that you think.
We’re all using AI all the time. We just don’t always recognise it. There’s a lot of discussion around the introduction of AI-based systems into clinical practice and healthcare systems. But these discussions tend to focus on the systems that are being designed, developed, and deployed as part of formal processes centred on ‘big ideas’…
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With every answer, search reshapes our worldview
Our search engines tried to impose structure and find relationships using mainly unintentional clues. You therefore couldn’t rely on them to find everything that would be of help, and not because the information space was too large. Rather, it was because the space was created by us slovenly humans. Source: Weinberger, D. (2017). With every answer,…
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Will Marshall: The mission to create a searchable database of Earth’s surface | TED Talk
in TechnologyAnd we now have over 200 satellites in orbit, downlinking their data to 31 ground stations we built around the planet. In total, we get 1.5 million 29-megapixel images of the Earth down each day. And on any one location of the Earth’s surface, we now have on average more than 500 images. A deep…
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Reference extract: credibility in academic searching?
I’ve spoken before about the need to teach students how to search, not just by typing keywords into Google, but by being able to validate the search results in terms of credibility. Reference extract is a new project seeking to do just that, provide credible search results by using librarians (of the human variety) to…