Artificial Intelligence Tools for Research and Writing

Information about how to use ChatGPT with Google Chrome and Firefox, adding voice commands for Alexis and Siri, integrating it with Google Docs or Microsoft Word, and more.

An extensive collection of AI resources covering AI text generators and their implications for higher education and faculty who give writing assignments, including detection fools and strategies.

This editorial was written by Noam Chomsky and is highly critical of ChatGPT and related AI programs.

Two Economics PhD candidates at MIT just published a fascinating study of the impact of ChatGPT on white collar productivity. And the results are pretty spectacular.

CNBC article about the AI software (February 8 2023)

Steven Pinker says it’s impressive; will have uses, limits; may offer insights into nature of human intelligence (once it ‘stops making stuff up’).

An article discussing the implications of ChatGPT for faculty who give writing assignments in their courses and how to detect machine-generated writing.

A scholar tests ChatGPT and finds that it has remarkable ability to summarize large amounts of information and render it in a variety of formats ranging from essays to poetry.

A University of Wisconsin psychology professor created an assignment that requires her students to use ChatGPT as well as detection software.

A faculty member shares his course policy for student use of ChatGPT. His approach is not to ban it but to have students cite it.

This article offers practical advice about using ChatGPT in the teaching process.

Practical advice about how to incorporate ChatGPT into your syllabi and also some creative assignments to try that incorporate ChatGPT.

Artificial intelligence (AI) natural language processing (NLP) systems, such as OpenAI’s generative pre-trained transformer (GPT) model (https://openai.com) or Meta’s Galactica (https://galactica.org/) may soon be widely used in many forms of writing, including scientific and scholarly publications (Heaven 2022).1 While computer programs (such as Microsoft WORD and Grammarly) have incorporated automated text-editing features (such as checking for spelling and grammar) for many years, these programs are not designed to create content. However, new and emerging NLP systems are, which raises important issues for research ethics and research integrity.

This article summarizes some of the advantages of using Chat-GPT as a scholarly assistant to edit papers, check code and write introductions and conclusions and also points out some of its shortcomings.