Yup. Writing is thinking. So if you write a shitty first draft, you did some thinking and are on your way! If you got “AI” to write the draft, you haven’t thought AND now you’re trying to fix up what some non-thinking robot “thought.” You just put yourself 30 yards behind the starting line.
I think universities have decided that missing out is a bigger risk than being silly and can’t contemplate the possibility that their gullible approach to AI could do harm.
I'm writing rec letters this week for the NSF GRFP, and I have to say, there's no way I'm touching generative AI for this. The students deserve better.
Current reading. I'm 20 pages in and am trying to be generous, but hoo boy there are some huge problems with this book already
Is Science Built on the Shoulders of Women? A Study of Gender Differences in Contributorship 🧪
This WIRED microbiology Q & A by Dan Buckley (is he on here?!) is amazing! m.youtube.com/watch?v=Sfhp...
YouTube video by WIRED
Oh absolutely 💯 - a common refrain in my genetics course is “biology loves a spectrum” …And “biology loves to break the rules we set for it”
Absolutely!
Happy to provide what I used for Intro Genetics (3000-level) at the end of the course