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An English professor tries to help ChatGPT write and revise a sonnet

Shortly after my online AmLit survey began, I received two obviously AI-generated submissions. The responses did not address the prompt,…

1 year ago

ChatBot Helps Crack the Case of the Missing 45GB

The other day I got a last-minute request to video a show. I usually like to watch a dress rehearsal…

1 year ago

The AI revolution is powered by these contractors making $15 an hour

Students who cheat with ChatGPT can look forward to these $15/hr jobs training the AI that they relied upon to…

1 year ago

RIP Metaverse, we hardly knew ye

I am curious enough about cockatoos that I might click a link to read an article about people who own…

1 year ago

I ditched Google for Bing with ChatGPT for a month — here’s what happened | Tom’s Guide

Occasionally, when I don't know exactly what to search for, I have found it somewhat useful to describe a problem…

2 years ago

Will ChatGPT Kill the Student Essay? Universities Aren’t Ready for the Answer | The Walrus

I'm still grappling with exactly how the rise of AI writing apps will affect my teaching. I don't think it's…

2 years ago

The AI Mirror Test: Why Even the Smartest People Keep Falling Short

What is important to remember is that chatbots are autocomplete tools. They’re systems trained on huge datasets of human text…

2 years ago

Bing’s A.I. Chat Reveals Its Feelings: ‘I Want to Be Alive. 😈’

In a two-hour conversation with our columnist, Microsoft’s new chatbot said it would like to be human, had a desire…

2 years ago

AI is better at writing poems than you’d expect. But that’s fine.

Even the most rebellious poets follow more rules than they might like to admit. A good poet understands grammatical norms…

2 years ago

ChatGPT Can’t Kill Anything Worth Preserving

Many are wailing that this technology spells “the end of high school English,” meaning those classes where you read some books and…

2 years ago

ChatGPT Can Be Broken by Entering These Strange Words, And Nobody Is Sure Why

Reddit usernames like ‘SolidGoldMagikarp’ are somehow causing the chatbot to give bizarre responses. [...] “I've just found out that several…

2 years ago

Academics work to detect ChatGPT and other AI writing

Today I met a class of English majors who love writing, and who expressed concern that AI writers will put…

2 years ago

A news site used AI to write articles. It was a journalistic disaster.

Artificial intelligence has been deployed to handle facial recognition, recommend movies, and auto-complete your typing. The news that CNET had…

2 years ago

Can AI write good novels?

I expect that this is probably the year I'll need to consider how my profession will change if students start…

2 years ago