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Peter E. Murray

Library technologist, open source advocate, striving to think globally while acting locally

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  • Issue 110: Research into Generative AI

    Recent research in generative AI highlights impressive capabilities and concerns. Models show harmful behaviors like 'emergent misalignment' and can 'scheme' autonomously. In Minecraft, AI agents mimic human-like social dynamics. However, models struggle with historical accuracy, revealing biases and knowledge gaps. Despite rapid advances, the unclear mechanisms of AI underscore the need for careful study to manage future risks.

     Posted on  March 06, 2025
     ·  9 minutes reading time
  • Issue 99: Copyright for Generative Artificial Intelligence (ChatGPT, DALL·E 2, and the like)

    Cecil Mae Feather, 1929–2023
    This issue is offered in honor of Cecil Mae Thornburg Feather, my mother-in-law. Cecil Mae was a wonderful person. I only knew her a short time as I married into the Feather family, and that time was filled with love and joy. She enjoyed playing …

     Posted on  March 02, 2023
     and last updated March 01, 2023
     ·  11 minutes reading time
  • Issue 93: Chat-bots Powered by Artificial Intelligence

    This week we jump into the world of chat-bots driven by new artificial intelligence language models. The pace of announcements about general-purpose tools driven by large training sets of texts or images has quickened, and the barrier to experimenting with these tools has dropped. There are now fully-functional websites where …

     Posted on  December 15, 2022
     and last updated January 25, 2023
     ·  10 minutes reading time
  • Issue 90: When Machine Learning Goes Wrong

    The People of Ukraine are not forgotten. The Tufts University newspaper published an article this week about a multinational effort to preserve the digital and digitized cultural heritage of the country. On the other side of the war, Russian citizens are downloading Wikipedia out of fear of more drastic network …

     Posted on  March 24, 2022
     and last updated March 24, 2022
     ·  6 minutes reading time
  • Issue 87: Ukraine War, Artificial Intelligence Art

    We are one week into Russia's war against Ukraine. From here in America, it is hard to understand the reality of a country whose citizens seemed to be going about normal lives just a short time ago. I find it also hard to know what to say to people whose …

     Posted on  March 03, 2022
     and last updated March 02, 2022
     ·  4 minutes reading time
  • Thursday Threads: Man Photocopies Ebook, Google AutoAwesomes Photos, Librarians Called to HTTPS

    In this week's threads: a protest -- or maybe just an art project -- by a reader who saves his e-book copy of Orwell's 1984 by photocopying each page from his Kindle, the "AutoAwesome" nature of artificial intelligence, and a call to action for libraries to implement encryption on their websites.

    Feel …

     Posted on  May 28, 2015
     and last updated May 28, 2015
     ·  5 minutes reading time