There are two breakthrough technologies catching fire on campus these days. One of them, CRISPR-Cas9, is changing our relationship to the physical world through gene editing. The other, Artificial Intelligence (AI), is changing how we generate, process and analyze information.
Via Carlos Fosca
"At Stanford Libraries we are considering the profound change AI can bring as power tools for scholarship, making our vast library collections discoverable, searchable, and analyzable in new ways. Thinking about the transformation AI could bring to libraries is by no means new but the conditions are ripe for us to revisit and rethink Ed Feigenbaum’s vision of the Library of the Future.[6] How best do we bring the skills and knowledge of library staff, scholars, and students together to design an intelligent information system that respects the sources, engages critical inquiry, fosters imagination, and supports human learning and knowledge creation." (Catherine Nicole Coleman, Stanford University)