How Do We Assess Learning in the Age of Ubiquitous AI? I’m not sure how to assess student learning for generative tasks that involve the production of text or images — models like ChatGPT and Stable Diffusion are so easy to use, and so maddeningly good (and bad!) that it…

TL;DR: I encourage you to use AI resources like ChatGPT productively to improve your learning. Remember that ChatGPT can’t think — it only uses statistics to make guesses about the next word It often does a great job summarizing things that are already out on the net. It’s also good at…

An example of how linguistic domain knowledge can inform feature selection for insight. — What makes a movie review negative or positive? I mean, obviously a real stinker of a movie (“Oh Hi Mark”) is going to produce some clearly critical reviews, but how do we as humans read a review and understand the reviewer’s take in general? This is an important question in…