(via Library Juice Academy)
Registration is open for the Library Juice Academy asynchronous course “AI and Libraries, for Skeptics”. It will take place online from Monday, October 7, to Sunday, November 3. Please see below for more information, including the link to registration.
This course will introduce the dynamics of what Artificial Intelligence really is and the potential role that it might have in the contemporary library and society more broadly. Topics explored will include the ethics of AI, ChatGPT and other Large Language Models, vendor AI products, and potential future roles the library will have in both augmenting and striving against AI. This class will explore these topics through a critical lens that is skeptical of the difference between what the promise of AI is compared to the reality of what it will bring. Through a highly interactive pedagogical approach learners will plunge head-first into what all the fuss is about and will be challenged to think through the question: What should the role of AI in the library actually be?
The course facilitator, Tim Ribaric, works at the Brock University Library since 2006 and currently holds the role of Digital Scholarship Librarian. He has published and presented on many different topics, including effectively utilizing technology in the library environment, cracking cryptographic systems, and computational analysis of text.
This course is worth 1.5 CEUs or 15 PDHs. The cost is $250.00
For additional details, and to register, please go here.