Category: Artificial Intelligence

Elizabeth Steere — Anatomy of an AI Essay

by David Labaree, posted in Academic writing, Artificial Intelligence, Scholarship, Writing

This post is an essay by Elizabeth Steere that was recently published in Inside Higher Ed.  Here's a link to the original.   For teachers worried about students who turn in AI produced essays, she provides an analysis of 50 some essays she generated using ChatGPT using prompts from past assignments she's deployed in her own teaching.  … Continue reading Elizabeth Steere — Anatomy of an AI Essay

Steven Pinker — Will ChatGPT Replace Human Writers?

by David Labaree, posted in Artificial Intelligence, Intelligence

This post is an interview with Steven Pinker that appeared in the Harvard Gazette.  Here's a link to the original. Pinker points out the downside of AI.  The core problem is that it's not based on knowledge of how things work but on a massive ingestion of text.  This allows AI to figure the probability of … Continue reading Steven Pinker — Will ChatGPT Replace Human Writers?