Courses on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Librarianship in ALA-accredited Masters of Library and Information (MLIS) degrees are rare. We have all been surprised by ChatGPT and similar Large Language Models. Generative AI is an important new area for librarianship. It is also developing so rapidly that no one can really keep up. Those trying to produce AI courses for the MLIS degree need all the help they can get. This book is a gesture of support. It consists of about 100,000 words on the topic, with a 4-500 item bibliography.
The third edition has changes and additions. These include:
- A new Chapter 6 on evaluation and the future
- New materials in Chapter 5 on current large language and multimodal models
- Scattered revisions, corrections, and updates.