Posts by Eliot Scott

Finding legitimate use cases for Artificial Intelligence on the Library Blogs site proved to be difficult after four experiments. Tests include running Hugging Face, Ollama with two different LLMs, U-M Maizey and Google NotebookLM. Costs of AI in maintenance, storage and processing, as well as environmental concerns were deemed too high and outweigh the benefits and value added to the site.

Contributing to software projects can be harder and more time consuming than coding customized solutions. But over the long term, writing generalized solutions that can be used and contributed to by developers from around the world reduces our dependence on ourselves and our organizational resources, thus drastically reducing our technical debt.