Project

ScapeGoat: Library Conference AI Escape Room

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Flyer handed out at the conference featuring a goat icon & "Doomed by the data tangled in technology can my dear librarians finally break free?" At the bottom, a quote reads: "Once you log in... there may be no logging out! Enter the escape goat... if you dare!"

This is definitely one of the most interesting AI projects that I've been fortunate enough to work on! ScapeGoat, the AI Powered Escape Room for librarians, was demo'ed at the TLN Library Technology Forum in Michigan. This project was the brainchild of two former students of mine: Michael McEvoy of Northville [MI] Public Library and Shauna Quick, Library of Michigan. I helped with prompt design and providing the back-end infrastructure used to run the escape room game and scoring system!

Preventing "Hallucinations" With Context

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AI book icon

My colleagues can confirm that I'm the first person to rave about how useful ChatGPT has been for my work. I've been using it since it became available for tons of everyday tasks: writing, coding, strategizing, brainstorming, and more. But a lot of the recent hype around AI tools, especially ordinary use of the basic ChatGPT system from OpenAI, really needs to be taken with a grain of salt!