Tag: AI

Guiding student learning At SMU, faculty members find a trusted partner in the Libraries — where resources, expertise, and support align to help them innovate in research and enhance their teaching. Dr. Constantin C. Icleanu, associate teaching professor of Spanish, partnered with SMU Libraries and librarian Rebecca Graff and applied to the Research Assignment Stipend…Continue Reading Teaching in the time of AI: New initiative for SMU faculty

Scholarly sources made simple SMU Libraries is currently trialing Consensus.app, an AI tool that searches across about 200 million academic papers. Consensus is a search engine not a chatbot, so it only gives you real, academic papers in the results unlike other AI tools you may be familiar with (ChatGPT, I’m looking at you). Here…Continue Reading Get the most out of Consensus, an AI academic search tool

SMU Libraries leading the way What happens when curious minds meet cutting-edge technology? At the intersection of AI and academia, a collaboration between SMU Libraries and faculty reveals insights into the newest AI tools and their potential uses in research. Carrie Johnston, director of research and scholarly initiatives at SMU Libraries, led the inaugural AI…Continue Reading AI meets academia: Exploring the future of faculty research

Applications of generative AI are on the rise, and many of SMU Libraries’ subscription databases are adding these features. A differentiating factor of generative AI tools in databases is that vendors build their own custom tools instead of using third-party ones like ChatGPT, Bard, or Gemini. The vendors’ custom tools rely only on content found…Continue Reading Generative AI in Library Databases

Many of us are familiar with the problem of hallucination with generative AI tools. ChatGPT produces citations to sources that seem very real yet are utter fabrications. This is because the AI tool, in order to produce an answer, is not referencing actual sources, but rather what it has learned from its training data. In…Continue Reading Through the Looking Glass: Searching for Scholarship with AI

Generative AI (GAI) has become part of the fabric of higher education. We discuss its use in instruction, research, and daily tasks. What is often left out of this conversation is the impacts of GAI on the environment and labor. These concerns are easy to overlook considering the separation between GAI processes and the user,…Continue Reading The Generative AI Balancing Act: Considering Ethics in Relation to Progress