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academia, ChatGPT, expressive individualism, Gartner, Harvard University, Maya Bodnick, music, pedagogy, technology, Ted Gioia, Thomas L. Friedman
Until recently, my approach to the very new technology of large language models or LLMs – the AI tools of which ChatGPT is the most famous – had been heavily shaped by my experience of feeding it an essay assignment like my classes’ and thinking the result merited a B or B-. On the disturbing side, that meant that ChatGPT could easily generate a passable paper; on the reassuring side, it meant that it could not easily generate a good paper. The latter still required the human touch.
Imagine my alarm, then, at reading this essay by Maya Bodnick.
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