McIlroy "The Digital Horizon: How AI is Shaping Book Publishing"

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The Digital Horizon
How AI is Shaping Book Publishing
Presentation to the
17th Annual NISO/BISG Forum
AI in Book Publishin...

How AI is Shaping
Book Publishing
Some Observations

Intention for this presentation
To take you through some parts of my
AI & book publishing journey

A bit (too much) about me
 I started studying AI in 1987 (again in 2015)
 Focused on the digitization and automation of
...

https://leanpub.com/
ai-revolution-in-book-
publishing/

The Book Process
Released as (free) work in progress, and then on July 9:
1. Print, EPUB, PDF, and online web version
EPU...

Can AI Be Useful
in Book Translation?
Presentation to the
BISG, and to our friends
June 25, 2024
Thad McIlroy
The Future o...

A Drop in the Bucket
In 2023
 9,500 translations in the U.S. from
other languages
 7,230 translations from English to
Sp...

Leanpub Translations

It gets better…
Meta has built an AI
model, NLLB-200,
the first to translate
across 200 different
languages with
state-of-...

SeamlessExpressive
AI research by Meta
https://seamless.metad
emolab.com/expressive

Definitions
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is
indistinguishable from magic.”
— Arthur C. Clarke

Waymo (owned by Google)
The streets of San Francisco.

Threats
Amazon overwhelmed Bias
Bubble Copyright
Corporate concentration Data, running out of
Design concerns Destroy or s...

By all means…
… judge AI, and judge it harshly,
but do so from a place of knowledge.

Change
 "We always overestimate the change that will occur
in the next two years and underestimate the change
that will o...

Process Transformation
The initial impact of a new
technology is conservative…
• Authoring and AI
• Design and illustratio...

Writers & Readers
 The AI goal: Help writers find readers and
readers find writers
 Publishers disintermediate the conne...

The Declining Value of Publishers
The three remaining advantages for book publishers:
1. Cachet
2. Access to major media
3...

Some Modest Next Steps
• “I believe the cost of getting to know AI,
really getting to know AI, is at least 3
sleepless nig...

AI in Libraries
https://issuu.com/against-the-
grain/docs/june_2024_v36-3/12

The Future
thad@thefutureofpublishing.com
• Disruption ahead
• Impact: TBD

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