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Archive for AI

AI Isn’t Coming for Information Professionals … But Only If We Engage as Partners

Posted by AIIP 
· Tuesday, April 7th, 2026 at 09:00 AM 

By Michael Ridley Editors Note: This is part of our series from speakers and attendees of our AIIP 2026 Symposium. Michael will be presenting this topic Friday, April 9 at 7:00 pm ET. Register here. Once again, it’s an honour to be speaking at the AIIP symposium whose members I consider my peers. Of course, I’ll… Read More »

Categories : Conference, Digital Transformation and Tools, Hot Topic, Information Skills
Tags : AI, running an info business

Real Information Artificial Intelligence Series: AI & Multimedia – for Good and Evil

Posted by AIIP 
· Tuesday, March 10th, 2026 at 09:00 AM 

Can You Believe What You See? By Arthur Weiss An apology: in my last post, I promised to look at dangers in AI for research and summarizing topics. That’s still on my list. In this post, I’m going to address another danger and explore what AI promises for multimedia.

Categories : Business 101, Digital Transformation and Tools, Hot Topic, Information Skills, Tools of the Trade
Tags : AI, Multimedia

Prompting AI (Part 1)–AIIP Series on Artificial Intelligence

Posted by AIIP 
· Tuesday, July 22nd, 2025 at 11:00 AM 

By Arthur Weiss Editor’s note: This is part of a series covering what’s new and, more importantly, how infopreneurs can maximize the benefits of AI tools.  On job sites, you’ll discover that there’s been a boom in job ads for “AI Prompt Engineers.” Some jobs pay well over $100,000 per year – but is “prompt… Read More »

Categories : Information Skills
Tags : AI, Prompting

AI Scams – AIIP Series on Artificial Intelligence, Part 4

Posted by AIIP 
· Tuesday, June 3rd, 2025 at 10:26 AM 

By Arthur Weiss Editor’s note: This is part of a series covering what’s new and, more importantly, how infopreneurs can maximize the benefits of AI tools.  When I started this blog, my aim was twofold: 

Categories : Information Skills, Tools of the Trade
Tags : AI

Real Information – Artificial Intelligence: the AIIP AI blog

Posted by AIIP 
· Tuesday, May 20th, 2025 at 11:00 AM 

By Arthur Weiss Editor’s note: This is part of a series covering what’s new and, more importantly, how infopreneurs can maximize the benefits of AI tools.  The previous two posts focused on Artificial Intelligence – defining what it is and showing that it covers much more than Generative AI tools such as ChatGPT. In many… Read More »

Categories : Information Skills, Professional Development
Tags : AI, technology

Real Information – Artificial Intelligence: the AIIP AI blog

Posted by AIIP 
· Tuesday, April 15th, 2025 at 11:54 AM 

By Arthur Weiss Editor’s note: This is part of a series covering what’s new and, more importantly, how infopreneurs can maximize the benefits of AI tools. We are currently in an age of AI, and many people perceive AI as a threat, being concerned, for example, that AI will take their jobs. Personally, I don’t… Read More »

Categories : Information Skills
Tags : AI, infopreneur, technology

Real Information – Artificial Intelligence: the AIIP AI blog – March 2025

Posted by AIIP 
· Tuesday, March 18th, 2025 at 11:00 AM 

By Arthur Weiss Editor’s note: This will be the first in a series of blog posts – covering what’s new and, more importantly, how infopreneurs can maximize the benefits of AI tools. I wrote a blog post on AI apps for Infopreneurs a couple of months ago. Since then, multiple announcements have come from the… Read More »

Categories : Tools of the Trade
Tags : AI, Generative AI

Interview with AIIP keynote speaker and AI specialist Dr. Mike Ridley

Posted by AIIP 
· Thursday, January 30th, 2025 at 11:00 AM 

Dr. Michael Ridley is Librarian Emeritus at the University of Guelph where for many years he was Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Chief Librarian. Dr. Ridley will be presenting on Human-centred explainable AI at AIIP25 on Thursday, April 10 at 3 pm EDT. Ahead of that presentation, he was kind enough to answer a few… Read More »

Categories : Information Skills
Tags : AI, AIIP25
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