A fascinating and deeply encouraging post by @dancohen on how his library is connecting chatbot inquiries to library resources:
This output encourages the student — or the faculty member or the general public — to consult the texts themselves, which popular chatbots eschew during spasms of summarization. Instead, through our software we want to foreground the expressive works of human beings — the articles, books, documents, and works of art, rather than the AI’s digests of these objects.
Updated a post in response to a fierce correction from Phil Christman.
Re: my post from earlier today, my friend Jono Linebaugh sent me this picture of a sign he came across in his travels. This one has the added virtue of theological acuity.
An old theory of mine: Online, big work gets smaller, while smaller work stays the same or gets bigger.
Different from/than/to — honestly, I’ve reached the point where they all sound wrong to me.
Very pleased and slightly disoriented at the prospect of hearing Rowan preach in my little parish church. Worlds colliding!
Yesterday’s post: Should Christians be leftists? Today’s post: Should Christians be anarchists?