A large language model is when you just take a lot of text and train it through machine learning to understand statistically a particular word. CHET GPT was released to the world on November 30th, right before finals in higher education by a company named OpenAI. There are other ones out there though, right? There's Bert. There's Lambda. And so it does a really good job of sounding human. It also sounds confident as well.
Autumm Caines discusses chatGPT and good intentions in higher ed on episode 452 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
I am fascinated by the intersection between who were are and the environments we inhabit.
-Autumm Caines
The process of writing is thinking.
-Autumm Caines
We want our students to learn how to think through the act of writing.
-Autumm Caines