AI in the Scientific Landscape

NNLM Discovery

There have been numerous groundbreaking Artificial Intelligence (AI) advancements over the last year. Generative AI, which has exploded in popularity since last November with the release of ChatGPT, introduces major opportunities to boost productivity and advance NLM's capabilities. These tools also present some limitations that all users must be aware of.
Episode 8, “The Future of AI in Medicine” was recorded last summer before Generative AI exploded onto the public consciousness. So we felt compelled to follow up with a bonus episode guest produced by Dianne Babski, Associate Director for Library Operations at the National Library of Medicine.
In this bonus episode, Dianne interviews NLM scientists Dr. Sameer Antani and Dr.
Zhiyong Lu to explain how generative AI is transforming the scientific landscape. They discuss ChatGPT, large Language models (LLMs), AI hallucinations, and more.
As mentioned in this episode, all of the artwork for NNLM Discovery has been created using a generative AI text-to-image tool. We have added the text prompts for each image to the shows’ descriptions. Here is a summary of the entire season’s imagery:
NNLM Discovery show art: “A woman makes a fascinating discovery”

Episode 1 - Virtual Health: “Telemedicine at the library in Texas impressionism”

Episode 2 - Healthy Garden, Healthy You: “a Van Gogh style painting of garden boxes”

Episode 3 - Moby Bookmobile: “Landscape painting of plains with Native American books in Wyoming”

Episode 4 - Collection Equity: “oil painting of the diversity inside a library”

Episode 5 - Amateur Radio Club: “Ham radio operators on the islands in the style of starry night”

Episode 6 - Medical Librarians: “Medical librarians working hard in style of Gustav Klimt”

Episode 7 – Period Poverty: “A woman silhouette standing in front of a red ocean in the style of Van Gogh”

Episode 8 - Future of AI in Medicine: “an expressive oil painting of a robot and doctor working together looking at an x-ray”

Episode 9 - Speaking of Science - Lauren Porter: "Researchers talking about science in the style of Picasso"

Episode 10 – AI in the Scientific Landscape: “In the style of Georgia O'Keefe, paint me a landscape that shows a future with library users embracing AI technology”

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