Debby Cotton

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Professor of Higher Education and Director of the Sustainability, Creativity and Innovation research group (SCION) at Plymouth Marjon University. Recently arrived from the other place. Still a bit confused!
The cat printer ran out of toner!
JOB POSTING: Director of Center for Teaching and Learning Innovation at Michigan State University https://www.higheredjobs.com/details.cfm?JobCode=178343728 #HigherEd
Torrents of Antarctic meltwater are slowing the currents that drive our vital ocean 'overturning' – and threaten its collapse

In a plot reminiscent of the 2004 movie The Day After Tomorrow?, Australian scientists are warning that the Southern Ocean’s deep “overturning” circulation is slowing and headed for collapse.

The Conversation

Very happy to see this Washington Post article accurately reporting on our #chatGPT paper, unlike most of the coverage. Our kids are also really thrilled to see mum and dad in the news! #higherEd #education #teaching

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/03/23/chatgpt-paper-plagiarism-university/

Professors published a paper on AI with a ‘plot twist’ — ChatGPT wrote it

Three academics in Plymouth, England, published a paper about the dangers of ChatGPT and plagiarism. To prove their point, they used the program to write it.

The Washington Post

Spent the evening experimenting with #AI tools. I was given access to the “new Bing” and so… *Microsoft’s technique WORKED*!

They got me, who has a historical aversion to Microsoft software, to *install Bing and Edge* on my iPad! 😱

The new #Bing is fascinating because it can pull articles from the *current* Internet. (Unlike #ChatGPT )

I asked it to summarize several recent articles and blog posts, including one that was ginormous!

The summaries were.. very accurate!

This could be useful!

In case you read the Guardian article about our #ChatGPT paper, I’d like to clarify that we didn’t actually ‘hoodwink’ anyone! The paper states clearly which parts were written by us and which by ChatGPT. That said, we have enjoyed people’s surprise when they get to the big reveal! https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/mar/19/ai-makes-plagiarism-harder-to-detect-argue-academics-in-paper-written-by-chatbot Do read the paper: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14703297.2023.2190148
AI makes plagiarism harder to detect, argue academics – in paper written by chatbot

Lecturers say programs capable of writing competent student coursework threaten academic integrity

The Guardian

The irony :)

"#AI makes #plagiarism harder to detect, argue academics – in paper written by #chatbot" | Chatbots | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/mar/19/ai-makes-plagiarism-harder-to-detect-argue-academics-in-paper-written-by-chatbot

AI makes plagiarism harder to detect, argue academics – in paper written by chatbot

Lecturers say programs capable of writing competent student coursework threaten academic integrity

The Guardian
Stochastic Parrots Day

A virtual event to commemorate the 2nd anniversary of the paper, On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big?

Eventbrite

The last thing Sunak's government wants to do is to stop the small boat crossings (they could stop them tomorrow if they wanted).

It suits them to maintain a narrative of "dangerous foreigners" "invading our country", so that they have someone other than themselves to blame for all the crap that they're inflicting on us.

Who would they blame if the boats stopped coming?

I'm not going to blame people fleeing war and persecution. I blame Sunak and the rest of the Tories.

#Asylum #SmallBoats

I'm hearing MPs say it a lot, but what evidence is there to support the claims that "the British people support the government's asylum policy"?

If the answer starts with "Well everyone I talk to..." that isn't evidence.