AI, the illusion of completion, and what librarians might build after chatbots A student types a research question into an AI tool. The answer appears quickly. It has a calm tone. It has sections. It uses the right vocabulary. It may even include citations. It does not look messy or unfinished, which is exactly the problem. Before the student has searched a database, compared sources, checked a citation, opened an article, noticed a gap, or changed their mind, the work alread

If you work in libraries or archives long enough, someone eventually sends you a PDF that looks perfectly normal in a viewer, but refuses to cooperate. You cannot search it, you cannot copy text, and any attempt to extract content gives you nothing useful. This happened to me with a conference program and abstract booklet that a researcher needed to search and mine for content. The PDF looked crisp. The fonts were clean. It behaved like a real document in every way except the

I'm working on a Python project involving scientific publishing data. In the pursuit of enhancing medical knowledge accessibility through data science, I've utilized an emerging AI research tool known as Elicit, Python's Pandas library to analyze trends in epilepsy surgery publications. We'll analyze trends, popular research topics, and changes in scientific thought over time and perform basic data analysis on a scientific publishing dataset. This will include loading the dat

Visual Studio Code, commonly referred to as VS Code, is a free and open-source code editor developed by Microsoft. Its simplicity, coupled with powerful features such as built-in Git support, debugging, and a marketplace full of extensions, makes it an attractive choice for programmers and developers of all levels. Installing Visual Studio Code Before you can use VS Code, you need to install it. Follow these steps to get started: Go to the Visual Studio Code website at...