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Kenyon ChatGPT Roundtable


 

UPDATE

Here is a video of the ChatGPT and Generative AI Art Roundtable held in the Gund Art Gallary on Kenyon College (Jan 17th, 2023).

Vimeo Video of Roundtable

Here is a more complete ChatGPT transcript to generate the essay on immigration we began in the Roundtable session:

Our Recommendations to Kenyon faculty regarding ChatGPT (25 Jan 2023):

  1. It's pretty easy to bypass any plagiarism detection mechanisms, so we should assume students will quickly figure out how to do this.

  2. It's easy to install a plug-in to do web search in addition to the text generation. This bypasses the limitations of the training dataset and even generate up-to-date citations.

  3. An enterprising student could also "fine-tune" on a textbook or novel, thus giving it the capabilities to write answers specifically informed by and tailored to the textbook or novel

  4. GPT is moving to a paid model, with access that could be limited for those without a subscription. This should immediately raise concerns about access: those students who can afford it will have a powerful tool at their disposal.

  5. So far we have not seen any kind of academic account/access, although they usually have closed researcher-only access for beta testing of new models.

Other Colleges and Universities are putting out formal guidelines re:ChatGPT:



 

Artificial Intelligence models that can generate writing and art have exploded into the public consciousness faster than any previous technology. Within only 5 days ChatGPT attracted one million users, a feat that took DALL-E, Instagram and the original iPhone each approximately 75 days to achieve.

A stream of constantly improving AI models and new startups claim to automate writing and art. Text generation models write essays, screenplays, books, translations, software, poems, lyrics, social media posts, etc. as well as offer search, recommendations and therapy within an informal chat interface.

Art generation models like DALL-E 2, Midjourney and Stable Diffusion by StabilityAI create images (and soon video) of virtually any composition in any style, artists or period. AI art models currently generate story illustrations, stock photography, commercial artwork, website UX and industrial designs like new products, fashions and furniture.

Skeptics claim these models are fundamentally flawed: pale imitations of human creations, easily detectable frauds, confidently wrong, dangerously inaccurate and intellectual theft. Are they simply ‘stochastic parrots’ with no real understanding, originality or value? Non-skeptics worry about the direct impact on artists, designers, writers, programmers and others as well as the indirect impact on social institutions like education and public trust.

Come to our Roundtable to discuss:

  • The Basics of Generative AI Models
  • Current state-of-the-art capabilities and limitations
  • Research & Future Developments
  • Student Research Projects
  • Impact On Higher Education (e.g. plagiarism detection and new pedagogies)

Prof Katherine Elkins has published on literature, philosophy and aesthetics and, together with Jon Chun, has published some of the earliest work on generative AI in the Digital Humanities. They will be joined by students from a variety of disciplines who have used these AI models for a variety of IPHS AI DH projects from writing film beat sheets to exploring generative art.

Bring your curiosity, skepticism and concerns to this community event sponsored by the AI DHColab.

 

Contents


References

Generative AI Use Cases

  • Compiled from this Tweet by @petergyang
  • Technical
    • SQL Scripts
  • Business
    • Marketing/Sales Copy
    • Structuring Form Emails
  • Creative
    • Fanfic Graphic Novel Scripts
  • Personal
    • distill and organize stream consiousness speech to text notes
    • recipies constrained by whats in the fridge now
    • story writing for children

Generative AI

Prompt Engineering

GPT Plagiarism Detection

GPT Plagiarism Evasion

ChatGPT and Rethinking the College Essay

AI Art Galleries

AI Art Communities

AI Art Prompt Engineering

Stable Diffusion

AI Applications

Disrupted Services

Generative AI Lawsuits

Try for Free (as of 14 Jan 2023)

Hosting


Integrated Program for Humane Studies


 

Student Panelist


AI Research Projects for IPHS200 Programming Humanity (Fall 2022)

 

Penn Cancro
ChatGPT and Education: A Guide for Educators and a Look Towards the Future (Pending)
 
Alina Kalmeyer
Do Androids Dream of Digital Art? Addressing the Spectrum of Perspectives on AI-Generated Artwork
 
Raya Kenney
Adjectivally-Oriented: Women Through the Decades Stylistic Shifts In Magazines As Represented By Image-Generating AI
 
Graham O'Brien
Examining Race using AI: AI Generated Images of Black and White Women's Hair (Pending)
 
Devon Turner
When AI Meet Screenwriting: Can AI Generate Beat Sheets and Storyboards?


 

AI DHColab IPHS Faculty


Kathrine Elkins
Website
Twitter URL

When she was nine years old, Katherine Elkins started a family-run software company called Alcazar Associates with her father and brother. The company sold the first ever typing tutor as well as the first Star Wars video game. Her brother went on to work in AI at MIT, DragonSpeak, Batelle and Toyota Research. She went on to become a scholar of cognition, consciousness, and aesthetic experience with over a dozen published essays and two published books. She now also works in the “family business” of AI alongside Jon Chun, her husband. Together, they were the first to publish a method for surfacing the emotional arcs of stories. They were also some of the first to research and publish on AI language generation, and she speaks publicly about AI, most recently in an interview with UC Berkeley’s Cindy Mason on Radio AI. In her free time, she consults for both government and industry on AI and large language models like ChatGP, and this April she will help lead a workshop at Dartmouth’s Neukom Institute of Computational Science.

 

Jon Chun
Website
Twitter URL

Jon Chun has undergraduate and graduate degrees in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from UC Berkeley and UT Austin. He has done postgraduate fellowships and NSF research in gene therapy, electronic medical records, and semiconductors at the University of Iowa Medical School, MIT and SEMATECH. After working in large organizations including national labs, finance, and insurance, he co-founded startups in Japan, Brazil and Silicon Valley. He co-authored patents at his last startup to build the world’s largest privacy/anonymity service and designed the first web-based VPN linux appliance. Immediately prior to coming to Kenyon, he was a Fortune 500 Director of Development for the world’s largest computer security company, entrepreneur in residence at UC Berkeley and judged startup competitions at Berkeley Engineering Graduate School and OSU. 

 
In 2020 he and Katherine Elkins published "Can GPT-3 pass a Writer’s Turing Test?" in the Journal of Cultural Analytics; one of the first critical reviews of generative AI with 60 academic citations currently. Last year they published "What the Rise of AI Means for Narrative Studies: A Response to ‘Why Computers Will Never Read (or Write) Literature’ by Angus Fletcher." in Narrative. He gave the first presentation on GPT-2 at the Narrative Conference in 2020 and this March is presenting “Augmenting Narrative Generation with Visual Imagery Using Integrated Prompt Engineering (ChatGPT, DALL-E 2)” at Narrative 2023. His 2023 article "Exploring the Black Box: Narrative XAI (eXplainable AI)" will appear in the International Journal of Digital Humanities (IJDH) 2023 Special Issue on "Reproducibility and Explainability in Digital Humanities".

 


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