Author Archives: jdioguardi

ChatGPT raises questions about what we value in writing instruction, Hetal Thaker writes. Hetal Thaker January 23, 2023 Perhaps because it showed up at the end of the fall semester, when so many of us were exhausted from grading, from … Continue reading →

by Kara Yorio Jan 17, 2023 | Filed in News & Features The internet. Smartphones. Google. All technological advancements that changed the way we live and work. Will ChatGPT be added to the list? On November 30, 2022, OpenAI released … Continue reading →

OpenAI’s artificial intelligence writing program ChatGPT will, with a few prompts, compose poetry, prose, song lyrics, essays, even news articles. And that has ethicists and educators worried about the program’s ease at replacing human ideas with chatbot-generated words. Correspondent David … Continue reading →

It can quickly spew out a B-level essay. But will it spark a rise in cheating? Educators are scrambling to decide whether to ban the tool or embrace it. By Janet Hurley Senior Writer Sat., Jan. 21, 2023 It can … Continue reading →

From: Fitzpatrick, Stephen Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2023 7:54 AM Subject: Chat GPT Colleagues, At a debate tournament on December 10th a coach from the city introduced me to ChatGPT, the new AI chatbot that had been released by Open … Continue reading →

With the rise of the popular new chatbot ChatGPT, colleges are restructuring some courses and taking preventive measures.   By Kalley Huang Kalley Huang, who covers youth and technology from San Francisco, interviewed more than 30 professors, students and university … Continue reading →

Emma Bowman   Jan 9 Teachers worried about students turning in essays written by a popular artificial intelligence chatbot now have a new tool of their own. Edward Tian, a 22-year-old senior at Princeton University, has built an app to detect … Continue reading →

Coincidently the Star Trek TOS episode The Ultimate Computer was on TV the other night. It is a classic 60’s warning against AI and some the dialogue sounds like the conversation around ChaptGTP in education. Some selections… MCCOY: “We’re all … Continue reading →

“I’m just gonna say it’s a student and prepare for my soul to be crushed. “ Did a Fourth Grader Write This? Or the New Chatbot? Don’t be surprised if you can’t always tell. Neither could a fourth-grade teacher — … Continue reading →

I take a job I know well, and try to see how far I can automate it with AI. Ethan Mollick Dec 6 If you have been reading this Substack, you may have noticed that, over the last week, I … Continue reading →