Christine's cranky thought that does not involve the LT department: ever heard of Betteridge's Law of Headlines? Here it is: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." Case in point: Anyhoo, back to Blackboard stuff. One of the...
Christine's gloating thought of the day that does not involve the LT department: I've always thought that the argument that yes, maybe, the current LLMs are bad but they will improve was not persuasive. The current models have already hoovered most data in existence....
Christine cranky thought of the week that has nothing to do with the LT Department: Y'all should read the book Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism, by Amanda Montell (COD Library link). It is a very helpful book to "decode" the current discourse in a lot of place. In...
Christine note that has nothing to do with the LT office: did you guys read this article from the Chronicle of Higher Education? That's what has made AI-generated text relatively easy to spot in student work. But, to me, so far, it was more like that saying from a...
Let's talk about a topic that I consider super important: our own digital practices with regards to privacy and data protection. This is, of course, related to my previous post on LLMs. The usual disclaimer: What I discuss in this post is my perspective only, It does...
Come read with me the recently published The Opposite of Cheating - Teaching for Integrity in the Age of AI. The seminar will consist of four one-hour sessions on Zoom, starting in October, on Thursdays (10/2, 10/9, 10/16, and 10/23), from 3:30 to 4:30pm. The seminar...
