What’s in a name? AI, LLMs, Chatbots and what we hope our words will accomplish

There’s a lot of debate in academic circles about what to call ChatGPT, the new Bing, Bard, and the set of new technologies that operate on similar principles. “AI” or “Generative AI” are the terms preferred by industry. These terms are rightly criticized by many scholars in the fields of communications, science and technology studies,Continue reading “What’s in a name? AI, LLMs, Chatbots and what we hope our words will accomplish”

Teaching and Learning with Primary Sources in the age of Generative AI

The following is a (more or less verbatim) transcript of a keynote address I gave earlier today to the Dartmouth College Teaching with Primary Sources Symposium. My thanks to Morgan Swan and Laura Barrett of the Dartmouth College Library for hosting me and giving me the opportunity to gather some initial thoughts about this thoroughlyContinue reading “Teaching and Learning with Primary Sources in the age of Generative AI”