Fulbright Scholar and CSAB Fellow, Department of Computing, Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, University of Namibia.
Title: Guidelines for Managing and Utilizing Generative Artificial Intelligence Writing Tools
Abstract: The talk begins with a brief history of artificial intelligence (AI). Students use AI generative writing tools such as ChatGPT to complete their writing assignments, regardless of whether such tools are allowed or not. The quality of writing produced by such AI tools is superior to that of many university students in terms of grammatical correctness, reduced spelling errors, increased average word length, expanded vocabulary, improved and more varied sentence structure, decreased word repetition, and increased punctuation usage. In this talk I provide guidelines for instructors, suggesting ways in which AI generative writing tools can be used to improve student writing. I discuss how to make students better editors, so they can improve ChatGPT’s output or tailor it to specific needs. I provide insights on how to make students better fact checkers, so that they can eliminate hallucinations that AI writing tools generate. These errors of fact make the AI writing tools far less valuable than they would be otherwise. The talk highlights the need across a curriculum to focus writing exercises more on editing and fact checking. I provide numerous insights into programs such as ChatGPT to help instructors without a technical background identify, understand, and process student writing generated by such programs in an improved fashion. I discuss several tricks that students use to disguise writing produced by ChatGPT.
Biography: Raymond Greenlaw received an MS in Computer Science in 1986 and a PhD in CS in 1988 from the University of Washington. While in graduate school, he worked for Paul Allen (cofounder of Microsoft) at Asymetrix Corporation. Raymond retired as the Office of Naval Research Distinguished Chair in Cyber Security from the United States Naval Academy in 2016 to focus on his consulting and publishing businesses. He published 20 books in the areas of complexity theory, graph theory, the Internet, parallel computation, networking, operating systems, theoretical CS, the Web, and wireless networking. Raymond has 375+ invited talks and publications. He is a four-time Fulbright scholar (Iceland, Namibia, Spain, and Thailand) and a CSAB Fellow. Raymond has traveled to over 185+ countries and territories, and visited 200+ islands.
