Programming and Processing
In-Class Agenda
- Update response on survey to include preferred pronouns and names (if you have not already).
- Discuss the assigned readings.
- Continue working through the Introduction to Course Tools and answer any questions (though this is primarily to be completed outside of class).
- Start Introduction to the Command Line & Prompt Engineering and Introduction to Versioning & Git (if not completed, these will become homework).
Assigned Materials
No Hypothesis Annotations Required for This Week
- Schaul, Kevin, Szu Yu Chen, and Nitasha Tiku. “Inside the Secret List of Websites That Make AI like ChatGPT Sound Smart.” Washington Post, April 19, 2023. GIFT LINK available on Canvas.
- If you do not want to use the gift link (which requires entering an email address), you can also use these two links:
- For the text, see this Web Archive link https://web.archive.org/web/20230828145045/https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2023/ai-chatbot-learning/.
- For the methods/static visualization, see this StoryBench article https://www.storybench.org/how-the-washington-post-uncovered-the-sources-that-make-ai-chatbots-sound-so-smart/.
- If you do not want to use the gift link (which requires entering an email address), you can also use these two links:
- Chin, Monica. “Kids Who Grew up with Search Engines Could Change STEM Education Forever.” The Verge, September 22, 2021. https://www.theverge.com/22684730/students-file-folder-directory-structure-education-gen-z.
- Vincent, Nick, and Hanlin Li. “GitHub Copilot and the Exploitation of ‘Data Labor’: A Wake-Up Call for the Tech Industry.” PSA Group (blog), July 8, 2021. https://www.psagroup.org/blogposts/101.
- Start Introduction to Course Tools.
Additional Materials
- Chiang, Ted. “ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web.” The New Yorker, February 9, 2023. https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/chatgpt-is-a-blurry-jpeg-of-the-web.