QuickBites, a Forum for Urgent News: ChatGPT: Help or Hype?
Channel: SJSUCollegeHA
Date: 2023-02-21

“Tech is not supposed to be human. It is only ever supposed to be humanoid.” - Tressie McMillan Cottom, “Human this Christmas” (NYT, Dec. 20, 2022)

ChatGPT is a language processing program run by OpenAI, a research and deployment company that uses AI (artificial intelligence) to generate written responses to prompts. While the usefulness, accuracy, and value of the original free version have been hotly debated in recent months, OpenAI is now marketing a “Plus” version with the promise of being able to “chat with you, answer follow-up questions, and challenge incorrect assumptions.” Should we trust ChatGPT? Will critical thinking and writing skills be strengthened or atrophy with its promotion or use? Join as we discuss this new “Generative AI” tool, what it can and can’t do, and emerging controversies around our use of the tool and its use of us as data. 

QuickBites is an initiative sponsored by H&A in Action at San José State University (a California State University campus) to bring you informal conversations about the most urgent news of the moment. For our conversation about ChatGPT, we are also sponsored by SJSU’s Writing Across the Curriculum, Office of the Provost, Center for Faculty Development, and eCampus. 

Live-streamed and recorded on February 20, 2023 from the Hammer Theatre Center Mercury Newsroom. 

Speakers:
*Sara West: https://saraofthewest.com/
*Roxana Marachi: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eduresearcher/

Links:
*For more information about ChatGPT in higher education, see the Resources curated by our experts: https://docs.google.com/document/d/15IZ169FFQRfTG9PhMehPWjZAfLnO-2n5t_6jdI1rNLQ/edit?usp=sharing
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