What’s of interest? Books, AI, and the Public Good: A New Grant (Dan Cohen, Humane Ingenuity)
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I’m delighted to report that the Mellon Foundation has awarded $350,000 to Authors Alliance and my library, the Northeastern University Library, to convene writers, publishers, librarians, technologists, and other stakeholders to explore the best way for books to be incorporated into artificial intelligence in an ethical and productive way that serves the public. In the coming year, we will consider a range of issues related to AI and books and develop a plan for a public-interest training commons.
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But this new project is about much more than the issues faced by these companies. Indeed, the project should give us a chance to redirect some attention away from ultra-large language models and generative AI to small language models and non-generative use cases for AI, to AI that isn’t about producing any kind of text on the fly but on the many other aspects of research and learning. To smaller-scale, community-based AI tool building.
Where is it?: Books, AI, and the Public Good: A New Grant
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