EDITOR'S NOTE
Five More Years Until Skynet
by Brandi Scardilli
We are in our 25th year of the new millennium now, inching closer to the era when AI will be fully integrated into society and might even overtake humans as the dominant species—if sci-fi properties are to be believed. Google tells me that The Terminator is set in 2029, Upload in 2033, I, Robot in 2035, Bicentennial Man in 2048, and The Jetsons in 2062. Ex Machina (2014), Superintelligence (2020), and Robots (2023) are all set in some ambiguous “near future.” With these sometimes benevolent, sometimes malevolent, uses of AI looming, it’s no wonder we can’t stop talking about it. This issue, Amber Boedigheimer rounds up some facts to keep in mind when using AI in the library on page 17. Marci Wicker talks to someone whose library answered the U.S. Copyright Office’s call for comments about AI on page 21. Mick O’Leary gives his BUDDIE award for Best Unknown Database to a related site on page 23. And Linda Pophal talks to marketers about using voice search on page 30.
On an unrelated note, please welcome Tom Gaylord as Information Today’s new Legal Issues columnist. Get to know him on page 19.
Happy Reading!
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