Why, oh why, would anyone use ChatGPT “to find sources”?!? It doesn’t find sources! It doesn’t run queries! What it does is produce text that follows patterns in the texts it has been trained on. Patterns. So it writes text that could be plausible, not text that is true. Why don’t people get this?!?
I wrote about an exchange I had with some of my computer-oriented friends yesterday and why ChatGPT is bad for academic papers, even if you're just using it to find sources. joshuapnudell.com/2024/10/04/s...
Yesterday I ended up in a long conversation with friends sparked by this article. They are computer people (programmers, IT, web admin types) and largely pro-AI, while I, the historian and teacher,…
Imagine being a time traveller, quietly working on your laptop in a quiet corner and not noticing the illuminator drawing you... ;)
Thanks for explaining. Here, we are restricted to the school's LMS or Microsoft/Google Suite accounts for contacting students.
Let's talk eels & colonization! In the early 17th C. London was growing fast and needed more eels.The surrounding countryside couldn't provide enough. The Dutch importers could...but the English were nervous of the strong Dutch monopoly. So where did they look? Ireland. 1/5 🗃️🧪
Serious question: doesn't your school prescribe and proscribe which platforms you can use? Asking from Australia, where we have to use the school platform/s only.
Yes, bring it over!
It was imposed.
The history of Bendigo's Golden Dragons (yes, there are three!): www.abc.net.au/news/2024-09...#history#Victoria#Australia
Two of Bendigo's Golden Dragons were vandalised earlier this year. In the wake of the heartbreak, we tell the remarkable story of how the third dragon came to be.