What Does It Mean To Be Intelligent?
In the last two decades, AI has advanced leaps and bounds to the point where we are seriously having conversations about 'it' being 'intelligent' as humans or even... Read more.
Trust, But Verify: Can We Make LLMs Trustworthy?
Large language models (LLMs) are starting to get integrated in many of our daily information access activities. But they often hallucinate and provide information... Read more.
AI and the Future of Information Access
AI offers tremendous benefits for deepening and widening access to information. But there are also many problem and challenges. The future of AI-driven information... Read more.
Can AI Hopes Beat AI Horrors and Live Up To AI Hypes?
Modern AI advancements are full of hopes and hypes and some horrors. The question is - can we address those horrors enough? Or is there a choice to make between... Read more.
The Questions We Are Not Asking Enough About AI
There are plenty of hopes and hypes about AI these days, but what is often lacking in these conversations is a set of questions that are more fundamental than what... Read more.
Ford v Ferrari to ChatGPT v Bard
The primary drivers of AI advancements right now are not addressing user needs or information access problems; they are, rather, driven by competition.... Read more.
The Rise of AI Chat Agents and the Discourse with Dilettantes
ChatGPT is a simple-to-use conversation agent developed by OpenAI. Of course, this is not the first time we have seen an AI agent that generates information. Google's... Read more.
Pulling the Curtain from AI Illusions
Many AI systems, especially those generating texts and images are starting to give an impression that they understand and even feel things. This illusion create... Read more.
Information Access’s Changing Models from the Library of Alexandria to Google
Preserving and presenting information has gone through several models in our history. For the most part, information access has been considered a public good. It... Read more.
Reflecting on One Year of Information Matters
Information Matters started developing a year ago. I took that opportunity to reflect on last 75 years of development of ideas in the areas of information science... Read more.
