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AI in Library resources

O'Reilly Answers

O’Reilly Answers is a Natural Language Processing (NLP) search that uses capabilities of open-source Llama 3 70B model to summarize the content of multiple publishers available on the O’Reilly learning platform. O’Reilly uses a custom AI engine, Ask Miso Anything, known for using semantic search and Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG). O'Reilly Answers allows interactive follow up.  

Please note: you must always consult your School, module instructor or supervisor's guidelines on the use of AI as some courses may restrict or prohibit the use of generative AI in academic work. ​​QUB Position on AI offers University guidance for staff and students.

Where can I see O'Reilly Answers?

O'Reilly Answers will display when successfully authenticated with your Queen's University Belfast credentials to the O'Reilly platform. Using the library link for O'Reilly will ensure you are properly authenticated. Click on 'Answers' next to the sparkles icon in the navigation bar to activate Answers.

 

O'Reilly UI with Answers and chat box highlighted

 

If you are reading full text content on O'Reilly you can ask Answers questions by clicking on the sparkles icon. Answers will retrieve content from O'Reilly platform which displays adjacent to the full text content you are currently accessing on O'Reilly. You can also highlight text within full text content on O'Reilly which activates Answers to explain a concept.

 

O'Reilly UI with Answers adjacent to full text and sparkles icon and explain this concept highlighted