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It's so lovely to see the mastowall fill up with posts about #FF2025
https://rstockm.github.io/mastowall/?hashtags=ff2025&server=…

I loved @jasonclark.bsky.social 's #FF2025 'problem statement':
'We were given access to a weirdly confident intern that can’t explain how they got their answers.
It is a seamless interface that breaks search interaction retrieval patterns.'

{ "jason": "clark" } (@jasonclark.bsky.social)
Slides and code from my #ff2025 talk, "Reasoning with Small Language Models (SLM) for Trustworthy Generative AI (GenAI)." Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1NHCuyuPd9KK3QUo8izeta2CMIk-rmcy1/edit?usp=drive_link&ouid=103883366387427181221&rtpof=true&sd=true Code: https://github.com/jasonclark/agentic-search-react

#FF2025 handing over to #FF2026!

#ff2025 livestream folk - if you haven't already spotted them, we have excellent transcription by expert transcribers who've seen the slides and abstracts - look for the CC option

#FF2025 in-person folk - if you're feeling a bit sniffly after travel and/or having fun in London, there are some (surgical) masks at the registration desk. I'm seeing my favourite octogenarians on Monday so I'm masking up most of the time too!

We began #FF2025 with two long papers - Developing Archival AI chatbots and AI to Improve AV Metadata in a Legacy System https://www.conftool.org/fantastic-futures<…

The list of #FF2025 participants* should now be available if you're logged into conftool
* only people who've opted in, of course!

A brilliant start to #FF2025 - Rachel's keynote, Megan and Amy's work on AI with the Bodleian and now Lucie Termignon, Simon Zilinskas on https://comparia.beta.gouv.fr/ - evaluate AI models by com…

Via John Baker on the #FF2025 channel on the AI4LAM Slack: 'Cataloging books with LLMs: using out of copyright books as training data' https://medium.com/digirati-ch/catalog

Great 'text on maps' work presented by Katie and Bert #FF2025
Katie posted: If you want to play around with our text on maps data viz interface the link is https://text-on-maps-viz.allmaps.worke

That's @dorothyjberry delivering an incredible closing keynote at #FF2025
Some focusing questions:
How do we describe archives?
Why do we describe archives?
What are we trying to automate?

Ethical Considerations Around Machine Learning-Engaged Online Participatory Research - poster from Zooniverse community at #FF2025 https://zenodo.org/records/17779992

Megan Gooch and Amy Warner May on survey results - what staff want their CEO to know about AI, and what they're not telling their CEO! #ff2025

*waves* at @ukmcg.bsky.social #MuseTech25 folk from #FF2025 - it'd be lovely to see more museum presentations at #FF2026 - and the

On a day full of conversations about big AI tech and the decisions museum, libraries and archives have to make at the intersection of licensing data for AI and their values, the AI Afterlives workbook seems like a thought-provoking exercise #FF2025

In my first workshop of the #FF2025 conference! Considering 'Future scenarios: Supporting the AI4LAM Community in Teaching and Learning' https://www.conftool.org/f…

Today we welcome both in-person and online participants to the first full day of #FF2025!
Check out the full programme at
https://www.conftool.org/fantastic-futures-…

So many conversations about AI literacy and training for museum, library and archive staff at #FF2025! Perhaps we need a RAG chatbot for finding existing training resources in whatever flavour you need

On the eve of Fantastic Futures #FF2025, two things I want to share: firstly, I'm super-excited about seeing people in person and online tomorrow to Friday! And secondly, huge thanks to everyone who's helped - everyone who put in a proposal, all our reviewers, the British Library's excellent International and Events teams, the incredible Digital Research team

Online tickets are now available for the Fantastic Futures 2025 conference! #FF2025 is the annual conference of the @… community, jam-packed with inspiration and practical lessons for AI in GLAMs. Sign up to watch all talks on Thurs and Fri Dec 4 - 5 for free!

On this Friday before @… 's Fantastic Futures 2025 conference, there are 499 registered participants!
I expect it's a mix of fans, the curious and sceptics; old hands who've seen AI winters and newcomers finally dipping a toe in.
You're all welcome to #FF2025

Some photos from Fantastic Futures #FF2025 uploaded on the Lizzy line wifi to Heathrow... looks like some doubles, which I'll sort out from Melbourne https://www.flickr.com/sear…