Like many of my colleagues, I’ve been grappling with how ChatGPT and other Large Language Models (LLMs) are impacting teaching and education — especially at the undergraduate level. Since ChatGPT’s public launch last November, there’s been a flurry of articles predicting educational chaos as students use it to complete assignments…

Why be yourself when, with the help of ChatGPT, you could be channeling great writers of the past? — Yesterday I posted a very long article on working with ChatGPT to write my annual academic self-evaluation — a task that I dread each year! The results were pretty impressive — by working with ChatGPT, I managed to get a compelling evaluation together without the usual existential angst this process…

I find writing about myself and my achievements for my annual academic review a miserable process. So I thought I’d see of ChatGPT could help. — I hate writing my annual academic self-evaluation. Scratch that, I dread it. There’s something about being expected to puff up what I do for others to critique or, worse, patronizingly pat me on the back for, that pushes me to a dark and miserable place in ways that few other…

A timely lineup of films that remind us that intelligent machines don’t aways have to be bad for the future of being human — Think robot movies, and it’s easy to conjure up images of dystopian futures, dominated by intelligent machines that have decided that the one thing they really can’t stand, is people. Yet there are a surprising number of films where robots pull on our heart strings, and that hint at a…

The just-released conversational chatbot has an impressive ability to convey complex concepts in understandable language — There’s been a flurry of interest in Open AI’s ChatGPT bot since was opened up to the public last week — and for good reason. The bot is remarkably good at providing informed responses and engaging in conversations that feel authentic. Since ChatGPT’s release there’s been a lot of interest…

Astronaut Cady Coleman and scientist/author Andrew Maynard return for another season of the groundbreaking podcast at they tackle everything from disability in space to extraterrestrial intelligence! — I can’t believe that it’s been a year since we launched season one of the Mission: Interplanetary podcast. That first season was groundbreaking in who we spoke with, and what we talked about. And now we’re back for even more!