Tag: Chat AIs
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A plea for not writing peer reviews using generative AI
I’m looking at the first reviews we received tagged with “use of generative AI in the review.” If and how much AI was used is actually not clear, but if so, they are stirring my worst fears. There are (at least) two things wrong with the reviews we received. Hallucination One reviewer is completely wrong.…
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Editorial quality at Elsevier
If you ever wondered about editorial quality at Elsevier, look no further. Original here and in case it gets fixed, on the Web Archive here, and finally the PDF.
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Another unintended benefit of chat AIs
Professors always hope for crisp, clear, and correct answers from students in response to questions. Often, we get wishy-washy answers that make us despair. This gets particularly bad when asking for a term definition. For example, I might ask: “What is a for loop in computer programming?” hoping for something like “A for loop is…
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Writing recommendation letters using a chat AI
It is the first week of the new year, and I already got three student requests for recommendation letters. Writing recommendation letters is an important duty of a professor, but writing letters for students who took exactly one course with with me ten years ago is stretching this duty. Thankfully, chat AIs can help–or can…
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How to acknowledge the use of copyediting services
I looked around research papers and did not find any acknowledgments of copyediting services used. Even before Grammarly and ChatGPT, authors have used human editors, and apparently this was not worth mentioning? This seems unfair to me and may have to change in the age of chat AIs. How about this template for the acknowledgments…
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Demonstration that Chat GPT is human
Or stupid. Probably both. Enough anthropomorphizing already.