My brother’s girlfriend is an attorney in New York, and while on Thanksgiving vacation with them, we got onto the topic of AI. She is beyond irritated that she’s caught and had to report several AI-written legal documents and cases sent to her by other lawyers, making her job harder and wasting her time. I Read More…
AI 101: Course Requirement
As it stands, talking about AI with other teaching fellows has made me feel less aggressive in nature when it comes up in conversation. I realize that everyday there are things in our lives that we use that have AI. However, that doesn’t change my trepidation when it is in relation to AI in the Read More…
Know Your Enemy: A Case for AI Awareness
My current read is “Player Piano” by Kurt Vonnegut. In this book, Vonnegut imagines a future that is dominated by supercomputers, a world where human labor gets superseded by technology. Obviously, this book is ripe with commentary about how the rise of technology is enabled, and accelerated by, capitalism. In this society, the only people Read More…
Who Died and Made Flesch-Kincaid King of Anything?
In ‘Translating a Policy Document into Plain English’, Timothy Laquintano from Lafayette College describes a pretty brilliant assignment that challenges students to think about AI, literacy, and the loss of meaning during translations. In this assignment, the instructor had students translate part of a complicated document into a 7threading level, and then do the same Read More…
Blog with me if you want to live: CHAT GPT2 Judgment Day
Essential Music For Reading this Blog Post In the 1990s the Odyssey was rebranded for the silver screen and titled Terminator 2: Judgement. Odysseus was named Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton), and her long journey home is now aided by her tough guy teenaged son and a previously evil cybernetic organism from the future (played by Arnold Read More…
The Implications of AI on Student Summary & Synthesis Skills
AI is a multidimensional tool of modern technology. A great deal of controversy over the usage of AI in college classrooms has to do with the full plagiarism of a final academic product. However, this is not the only potential use of AI software. Summary and synthesis are also key capabilities of AI software. With Read More…
Words From The Shell
The emergence of text generating Ai in the contemporary classroom presents numerous problems for the contemporary writing professor. Students using AI to plagiarize their work being the most pragmatic of these issues. How can I, a (lowly?) human possibly detect the work of robots and discern that work from that of my fellow man? While Read More…
How do we take a step towards knowledge of AI rather than the fear of it?
As an instructor the fear that AI might be utilized by a student is always creeping in the back of my mind. We spend weeks teaching a Unit, giving them the information, direct instructions, and time in class, but the chance that they would still use AI persists. Through my first semester as an instructor Read More…
Navigating AI First-Hand: Don’t Be Embarrassed of Your Own Work
Imagine this. I open a Unit 3 Assignment from a student who has not been in class for the majority of the semester. His first Unit Assignment had a half-page resume, no cover letter and a “justification memo” that detailed his journey through weightlifting. So, you can imagine my surprise when I open his Read More…
Heaven and Hell: A Poet’s journey into AI Writing
In Dante’s epic poem The Inferno (an epic poem that everyone should pretend to read), after becoming lost, he follows poet Virgil only to be led into the nine circles of Hell. There’s a whole to-do that follows about the soul, that I will not spoil. Dante’s poem inspired films, books, songs, and as of Read More…