I’d like to begin by sharing some thoughts on Petter’s article concerning ChatGPT’s role in annotating political tweets, drawing parallels with my own experiences. This summer, one of my internship projects involved categorizing various country reports using a predefined set of categories, which numbered over twenty. My initial approach was to employ ChatGPT for zero-shot […]
Continue reading →Reading Deshpande et al.’s paper on toxicity in ChatGPT has only resulted in more questions about how ChatGPT comes to these responses when being assigned certain personas. Some results are unsurprising, such as having ChatGPT take the persona of Adolf Hitler, who people almost universally agree was a bad person and therefore, ChatGPT’s responses while […]
Continue reading →Last week’s debate concerned the prompt “AI Will Bring More Creativity and Innovation than Risks and Dangers”, with Colby, Fady, and Risabh affirming the claim and Louisa, Sophie, Seth and me opposing it. From the beginning, I was surprised by how opinions varied on specific topics related to AI, even within the teams. Both sides […]
Continue reading →At the end of Week 5, we had a debate on whether ChatGPT and similar AI tools would have net positive or negative impacts on higher education. Half of the class participated — I myself was a speaker on the negative side. The prompt recommended that we focus on the ideas put forth by sociologist […]
Continue reading →Hello Everyone, As we enter week 7, we’ll conclude our discussions on individual experiments with ChatGPT on Monday – if you didn’t talk last time, please get prepared on Monday. After the discussion, we’ll delve into the intricacies of Dall.E.3, which will serve as our prime examples of Large Multimodal Models’ creativity. Wednesday […]
Continue reading →On Wednesday, October 25th, 2023, we had our first in-class debate on the impact of AI on education. The debate prompt is: “Will ChatGPT and other similarly powerful AI tools have positive or negative impacts on higher education? In your opinion, what Andrew Abbott’s criticisms in 2016 […]
Continue reading →Hsu and Myers write of society’s concerns that AI-generated images could lead to fake news and misinformation, but they furthermore point out that even some convincing AI-generated images have inaccurate details that can tip people off. Within the article they include some examples, like how dancing Boris Johnson has the wrong number of fingers, or […]
Continue reading →I resonate with the New York Times’ article regarding the potential dangers of misinformation fueled by new AI developments like DALLE-3. Recently, I’ve observed a surge in the use of DALLE-3 or mid-journey products for news imagery. This trend is apparent on various social media platforms and forums I frequent, making it increasingly challenging to […]
Continue reading →Maybe the abyss was already there Last Wednesday, two groups from my class debated the following question: Will ChatGPT and other similarly powerful AI tools have positive or negative impacts on higher education? Certainly, the debate on artificial intelligence’s role in higher education is a pressing one. It is, after all, one big elephant in […]
Continue reading →The first debate centers on whether ChatGPT and other AI tools have positive or negative impacts on higher education. Having listened to the entire discussion, my personal view is that while we might perceive certain negative impacts on higher education, ChatGPT and other AI tools’ positive influences will become evident over time, and we should […]
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