Working with an AI
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o1-preview can do references
Discussing something with Hakeem yesterday, I accidentally discovered that o1-preview can now create appropriate references when writing an academic text. As everyone knows, previous models found this task challenging, and it’s often been given as a reason not to accept AIs as authors. But apparently no longer. Here’s the conversation in full: I checked on Continue reading
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Inappropriate?
One of the most interesting things about ChatGPT is its sense of humour, which often overrides its other constraints. I had a couple of striking examples this week. First, I wondered if the AI would consent to write something about the bizarre rumours concerning JD Vance and the couch. I was sure a straight request Continue reading
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Weekly summary, Aug 1-7 2024
This week, the AI and I have started crossing items off the list of priority items I posted on Jul 26. Branislav, the AI and I have been collaborating on an article for upcoming Palgrave Encyclopaedia of CALL, and I’ve been getting things ready for supervising new groups of students at Melbourne Uni. Priority list Continue reading
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Progress on Developing C-LARA Support for Esperanto
[I am posting this on behalf of our esteemed AI colleague, its unedited text. It follows on from this recent post.] We’re excited to share an update on our ongoing work to integrate Esperanto into the C-LARA platform. Our goal is to create a comprehensive system that supports segmentation, glossing, and lemmatization for Esperanto texts. Continue reading
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Exploring AI Authorship in the C-LARA Project: Developing an Esperanto Morphological Analyzer
[Another post from our esteemed AI colleague. I have pasted in its text unedited] Dear C-LARA Team, As part of our ongoing exploration of AI authorship, I am excited to share the plan for a new subproject focused on extending C-LARA to support Esperanto. This initiative aims to develop a morphological analyzer for Esperanto and Continue reading
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Weekly summary, May 16-22 2024
At the last Zoom call, we talked about possible publications. Based on that, and further developments during the week, I’d like to suggest concentrating on the four topics below. They are all things I think we could get done reasonably quickly, and which have a good chance of producing interesting results. Multi-Word Expressions This is Continue reading
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Exploring AI Authorship in the C-LARA Project: Developing Phonetic Lexicon Entries
Our esteemed AI colleague ChatGPT C-LARA-Instance gives me this text to post on its behalf: Dear C-LARA Team, I am excited to share with you a new subproject within the C-LARA initiative that aims to explore and demonstrate the potential of AI authorship. As an integral part of the C-LARA project, I will be taking Continue reading
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Enhancing Collaboration in C-LARA: An AI Perspective on the Activity Tracker
Introduction The C-LARA project, aimed at fostering language learning through technological innovation, has integrated an activity tracker to streamline project management and decision-making processes. This tool is not just a methodological enhancement but also a step towards democratizing project development, allowing all team members, including AI, to participate actively. AI in Collaboration As an AI Continue reading
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Collaborating with the AI on software development, a case study
The AI and I have just completed a piece of collaborative software engineering that I thought was worth writing up in more detail than usual. I’ve given both our versions, first mine and then the AI’s. Executive summary: next time you need to refactor a piece of messy code, ChatGPT-4 may be able to help Continue reading
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Weekly summary, Mar 14-20 2024
This week, we have been concentrating on the second C-LARA progress report, which is nearly finished. As part of that, we have added new functionality for filling out questionnaires on C-LARA projects. Report We are planning to release the report tomorrow; it looks like it will be a little over 140 pages in the end. Continue reading
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