From DSC:<\/span><\/em> How About We Put Learning at the Center?<\/strong><\/a> — from insidehighered.com by John Warner Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n So, when people express concern that students will use ChatGPT to complete their assignments, I understand the concern, but what I don\u2019t understand is why this concern is so often channeled into discussions about how to police student behavior, rather than using this as an opportunity to exam the kind of work we actually ask students (and faculty) to do around learning.<\/p>\n If ChatGPT can do the things we ask students to do in order to demonstrate learning, it seems possible to me that those things should\u2019ve been questioned a long time ago. It\u2019s why I continue to believe this technology is an opportunity for reinvention, precisely because it is a threat to the status quo.<\/p>\n Top AI conference bans use of ChatGPT and AI language tools to write academic papers<\/strong><\/a> — from theverge.com by James Vincent; with thanks to Anna Mills for this resource Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n The International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) announced the policy earlier this week, stating, \u201cPapers that include text generated from a large-scale language model (LLM) such as ChatGPT are prohibited unless the produced text is presented as a part of the paper\u2019s experimental analysis.\u201d The news sparked\u00a0widespread discussion\u00a0on social media, with AI academics and researchers both defending and criticizing the policy. The conference\u2019s organizers responded by\u00a0publishing a longer statement\u00a0explaining their thinking. (The ICML responded to requests from\u00a0The Verge\u00a0for comment by directing us to this same statement.)<\/p>\n I am protective of my organic writing process, but when it’s time to edit, ChatGPT sometimes helps me notice which sentences aren’t quite put together as they should be. When I ask it why it suggested a revision, it sometimes describes a word choice nuance I hadn’t thought of.<\/p>\n \u2014 Anna Mills, amills@mastodon.oeru.org, she\/her (@EnglishOER) January 5, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nA few items re: ChatGPT — with some items pro-chat and other items against the use of ChatGPT (or at least to limit its use).<\/span><\/p>\n
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\nThe ongoing freak-out about ChatGPT sent me back to considering the fundamentals.<\/em><\/p>\n
\nAI tools can be used to \u2018edit\u2019 and \u2018polish\u2019 authors\u2019 work, say the conference organizers, but text \u2018produced entirely\u2019 by AI is not allowed. This raises the question: where do you draw the line between editing and writing?<\/em><\/p>\n\n