Sitemap - 2024 - Aaron Tay's Musings about Librarianship

Avoiding misconceptions - testing "AI search tools" - What not to do & some research questions to consider

Google Scholar vs other AI search tools (Undermind, Elicit, SciSpace) - how and when to use each

Why use of new AI enhanced tools that help with literature review should be discouraged for undergraduates

Are the current AI search tools that are enhanced with transformer-based models, the unicorn - low skill cap, high performance tools we are looking for?

Audio Overviews in Google Notebook LM made me go wow....

Primo Research Assistant launches- a first look and some things you should know

AI & Retrieval augmented generation search - the content problem -reactions from librarians, authors and publishers & thoughts on tradeoffs

Prompt engineering with Retrieval Augmented Generation systems - tread with caution!

All about citation chasing and tools that does citation chasing like Citation Gecko, Connected papers, Research Rabbit, LitMaps and more

Can Semantic Search be more interpretable? COLBERT, SPLADE might be the answer but is it enough?

Deep dive into AI powered embedding based search - sparse vs dense embeddings

Retrieval Augmented Generation and academic search engines - some suggestions for system builders

Why EXACTLY is Google Scholar bad for evidence synthesis, systematic reviews?

Undermind.ai - a different type of AI agent style search optimized for high recall?

A conceptual view of information retrieval - can we do better with AI?

Why entering your query in natural question leads to better result than keyword searching with the latest AI powered (Dense retrieval/embedding models) search

How learning evidence synthesis (systematic reviews etc) changed the way I search and some thoughts about semantic search as a complement search technique

Things I am still wondering about generative AI + Search in 2024 - impact of semantic search, generation of answers with citations and more..