PubTech Radar

PubTech Radar Scan is a free newsletter about publishing technology companies, innovations and initiatives by Helen King

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@aarontay I’m not so sure. I’ve heard off the record comments about “if we were as supported the drops we’ve seen would be an existential crisis”. But I think these drops were due to algorithm changes in google search results not AI specifically.

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I’ve joined the stampede to Bluesky you can find me here https://t.co/INGjXUOdji and, eventually, here https://t.co/BePwiK40TB

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@aarontay That’s a really good point. I like the comparison to a human intern. It will make mistakes and it might badly misinterpret the data. It might do a great job but might not, so you need to check everything. Your instructions have a huge influence on the results you get…

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@aarontay A computing analogy might work, eg ugrads use coding frameworks, they learn how to get a working solution but it’s effectively painting by numbers. There’s little skill/knowledge involved. You would need to do/learn a lot more to become a skilled programmer.

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@aarontay Perhaps the craft of literature reviewing is better taught in masters or post grad courses? (Was trying to think of an analogy using slide rules rather than calculators but could quite make it work).

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PubTech Radar Scan: Issue 25 (NEC Annual Publishing Conference 2024), by @PubtechR https://t.co/RCS8fscNb2

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Loving the Midnight at the Casablanca podcast with Paul Peters: https://t.co/toidaG7cSg. Absolutely fascinating to hear more about people’s careers and backstory.

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New issue of PubTech Radar Scan, includes STORM, Proemial, Signals launch, The Conversations from Wiley, replacing purchased class readings with AI-generated readings & technology-enhanced peer review. https://t.co/LH3V40XWkK

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Great blog post by David Worlock: https://t.co/7Ad2682WnM.. Time for academic societies to take back ownership of parts of the publishing space to directly serve the needs of their researchers? Time to #partylikeits1999 & value community needs more than efficiency? 😉

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Co-intelligence/Co-pilot has been an excellent price of marketing but require work from the user. It seems inevitable (to me) that as more products are built on top of LLMs the more these products will do and the less control used will have. Ethan Mollick’s latest newsletter:

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Key takeaways from the FT Strategies session on GenAI trends. 1. Multimodal products, 2. Conversational experiences, 3. Agents. Fascinating session especially the brief insight into their #AI experimentation space. #FutureMediaTechConference

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Does anyone else find browsing other people’s backlogs strangely compelling ? Here’s a part of the FT’s #AI ideas backlog. #FutureMediaTechConference

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@TekTonic4 @MicrobiomDigest @19joho Piggy back on C2PA? https://t.co/HY5F2YejdE the scientific community should be able to work with manufacturers of key bits of equipment to implement this.

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PubTech Radar Scan: Issue 22, by @PubtechR https://t.co/zR8m4ibJ7v

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Interesting… @SakanaAILabs introduce The AI Scientist: https://t.co/XjjKSYgTxY for ML research