Prof Bronwyn HemsleyWhat are you using #ChatGPT for, have you subscribed, and how is it useful for you?
Luca@BronwynHemsley I gave in when I could not figure out a way to make a sentence in a paper I was writing less convoluted. It actually helped.
@securescientist Thanks Luca! I think it's been a useful writing assistant, even as a 'sounding' board to see if things can be made simpler for different audiences. I use it to double check on some items, have I covered everything? usually ChatGPT starts to repeat on itself if asked to do the same similar type thing but it is a 'first pass' helper I think.
Boris SteipeUses in #Academia :
I am beyond impressed with how #ChatGPT assisted me this afternoon to get #Whisper running on my Mac.
I have some 20+ hours of potato quality interview recordings for a book project to transcribe. First trials with open Whisper services looked promising, but I didn't want to sign up with a commercial service. So I decided to try and run it on my own machine.
There is a nice jupyter tutorial on Github, posted by lablab.ai – but it is for windows, I haven't updated python since 2.7, nor written anything significant for more than five years. And I've actually never used jupyter. Sounds bad, right?
Well ChatGPT walked me through it all step by step, reminded me of trivial concepts that I had long forgotten, helped me downgrade to python 3.10 when 3.11 turned out to be unsupported, made sure my pips and paths got untangled, wrote a timing command for me... It took two hours ... but I know I would not have been able to solve this at all otherwise, and gone with the commercial option instead.
That we have a computer program that can help with this level of tutoring for beginner students is an absolute game changer.
Now my CPU is happily churning away, spitting out an hour's worth of transcripts (In amazing quality I must say) each ten minutes, and my sanity is safe. (For now anyway ...)
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@boris_steipe thanks so much Boris, that’s a great assistance example!
Jennie Blake@boris_steipe @BronwynHemsley holy cow. That sounds cool.
Have a look at https://sentientsyllabus.substack.com/p/assignment-and-agency
Personalized student assignments - towards Blooms "Two Sigma Problem" ...
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