ChatGPT, an Opportunity to Understand More About Language Models.

ChatGPT, a leading large language model, has achieved some success beyond previous language models and caught the world's attention since its release in late 2022. Businesses and healthcare professional fields have raised strong interests in investing in large language models to assist various kinds of information searching in their domain of expertise. Under the influence of ChatGPT, searched information may be received in a new personalized chat format, in contrast to the traditional search engines with pages of results for users to evaluate and open. Large language models and generative AI present new opportunities for librarians to understand more about language models' development as well as the future directions of the language models that are developed behind the user interfaces. Being aware of how language models impact the communication of information will enrich librarians' abilities to examine the quality of AI outputs and awareness of users' rights and data curation policies, to better assist patrons' research activities that involve using language models in the foreseeable future.