AI chatbots need more books to learn from. These libraries are opening their stacks

Greg Leppert weighs in on AI developers' use of written texts, rather than simply digital ones, to train LLMs. "A book collection steeped in 19th century thought could also be 'immensely critical' for the tech industry’s efforts to build AI agents that can plan and reason as well as humans, [he] said." 

Read more about the Harvard collection being released to AI researchers from The Associated Press.