The Weekly Five: Questions I'm left with
As the semester winds down and the final essays (and incessant queries for lenience) pile up, it's time to check in and check out on this...
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Shelbey Rosengarten
Apr 27, 20232 min read
The Weekly Five: What Have We Learned?
That's a good question. The big hullabaloo around AI and academic honesty hinges on that question: if students just use AI to cut corners...
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Shelbey Rosengarten
Apr 20, 20232 min read
The Weekly Five: The Roller Coaster
Back in the mid-1990s, I had the opportunity to teach writing courses as a grad student. Our department had also received a significant...
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Shelbey Rosengarten
Apr 13, 20233 min read
The Weekly Five: Welcome to the Uncanny Valley
At this point so much of what I'm reading is getting repetitive. That's good; it means we're defining some of the boundaries and pinning...
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Shelbey Rosengarten
Apr 6, 20233 min read
The Weekly Five: Not so fast, Tech Bros
At this point it would be great if we could just leave AI writer-bots in the dust, much like whatever was at the forefront of last week's...
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Shelbey Rosengarten
Mar 30, 20232 min read
The Weekly Five: Are You Smarter Than A Chatbot?
As someone who loves flux, I hover between the excitement and anxiety of it, thriving on possibilities one minute and wishing I could...
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Shelbey Rosengarten
Mar 23, 20233 min read
The Weekly Five: Is thinking a form of work? I think so
This was finally the week when I broke into AI writer-bots in class. As part of the discussion, some of my students joined me for a...
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Shelbey Rosengarten
Mar 16, 20231 min read
The Weekly Five is on break
In the spirit of spring break, I am taking time to let a few things percolate as I get out into the analog world (listen to records, walk...
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Shelbey Rosengarten
Mar 9, 20233 min read
The Weekly Five: Is the dust settling yet?
After 3 months of scrutiny, it seems like interest in AI writing models is waning somewhat. And that's fine. It's also natural; there are...
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Shelbey Rosengarten
Mar 2, 20232 min read
The Weekly Five: AI fought the law and the law won
Earlier this week I finished co-authoring an article with a brilliant coworker about AI and higher education. We both like to experiment...
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Shelbey Rosengarten
Feb 23, 20233 min read
The Weekly Five: ChatGPT becomes a spirit in the material world
When I talk to my classes about why they all have to take Comp1, I emphasize that writing is a product of thinking. We meet for class...
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Shelbey Rosengarten
Feb 16, 20232 min read
The Weekly Five: What you think you're seeing is not what you're seeing
It didn't take long for the battle of the bots to get surreal. One of the original criticisms of ChatGPT's writing was that it was bland...
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Shelbey Rosengarten
Feb 9, 20233 min read
The Weekly Five: I Still-- STILL!-- Haven't Found What I'm Lookin For
It happened early on: the emergence of ChatGPT struck fear in the minds of a certain group of professionals. Not teachers, or...
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Shelbey Rosengarten
Feb 2, 20233 min read
The Weekly Five: Creativity and AI
We keep hearing that ChatGPT is great at basic writing, but it's limited. It can't be creative. Tools like image and text generators,...
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Shelbey Rosengarten
Jan 26, 20233 min read
The Weekly Five: Meet your classmate, ChatGPT
I didn't expect academia to enthusiastically welcome AI writing models, let alone adopt it. Although bans and busters have also been...
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Shelbey Rosengarten
Jan 19, 20233 min read
The Weekly Five: AI at Work
Since I work as an instructor at a community college, I hear a lot about "workforce training" as a major institutional push. Most...
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Shelbey Rosengarten
Jan 12, 20232 min read
The Weekly Five: Follow the Money
AI is big business. It's used for applications far beyond writing and text generation, and that alone tempers the argument that it's just...
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Shelbey Rosengarten
Jan 5, 20231 min read
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love AI
In 2019, I had my first encounter with an AI model that could write from a prompt. GPT-2 had its flaws, but still was remarkably...
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Shelbey Rosengarten
Jan 5, 20231 min read
A Few Good Reads
Since this has been around for a while, there are actually dozens of great sources to read for a bit of context. I'll limit it to 5...
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Shelbey Rosengarten
Jan 5, 20232 min read
AI in the brAIn: The Weekly Five
My goal is to follow this topic long-term through the Spring 2023 semester. The topic of AI models that can generate text (articles,...
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