LLMs - Information Matters

March 10, 2025 Shalini Urs

LLMs, AI, and the Future of Research Evaluation: A Conversation with Mike Thelwall on Informetrics and Research Impact

In this episode of InfoFire, I sit down with Professor Mike Thelwall, a well accomplished scholar of Informetrics, to explore the intersections of Large Language Models (LLMs) and research evaluation. We delve into how LLMs are reshaping the landscape of research assessment, examining the promises they hold and the challenges they present in ensuring fair, meaningful, and context-aware evaluations.

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May 10, 2023 Shalini Urs

Is AI the future of everything? A fireside chat with one of the fathers of the Internet, Vint Cerf.

AI (Artificial Intelligence) is coming at humanity fast and furious. Shalini Urs discusses the new epoch of AI with one of the fathers of the Internet, Vint Cerf.

Editorial

December 8, 2022 Chirag Shah

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 LaMDA and Meta’s Galactica are some recent examples for text generation.

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September 23, 2022 Haihua Chen

Why Does Data Quality Matter? How to Evaluate and Improve Data Quality for Machine Learning Systems

With data as the infrastructure, and machine learning and deep learning as the technology foundations of building AI systems combined, they largely determine the performance, fairness, robustness, reliability, and scalability of AI systems.

Editorial

June 29, 2022 Chirag Shah

Sentient AI — Is that What We Really Want?

There is much too hype around AI systems that are acting like they know or feel. But we are not asking enough if we should even want such systems. Blindly trusting systems that make us believe as if they understand us or know everything can be dangerous.

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May 4, 2022 Shalini Urs

The Power and the Pitfalls of Large Language Models: A fireside chat with Ricardo Baeza-Yates.

Have you ever wondered how Google helps you complete your search query by suggesting the next terms of your query? Large Language Models (LLMs) power this feature. But LLMs go beyond that feature. Today, LLMs are used in building AI systems and applications ranging from recognizing speech to writing poetry. They have become very powerful, but there are also pitfalls.