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Class number:
1019
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Title: Writing and A.I. |
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Department: Writing and Rhetoric |
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Career: Undergraduate |
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Component: Lecture |
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Session: Regular |
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Instructor's Permission Required: No |
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Grading Basis: Regular |
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Units: 1.00 |
| Enrollment limited to 15 |
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Current enrollment: 11 |
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Available seats: 4 |
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Start date: Tuesday, January 2, 2024 |
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End date: Friday, January 19, 2024 |
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Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Schedule: MTWRF: 1:00PM-4:00PM, SH - S205 |
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Instructor(s): Helberg, Alexander |
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Prerequisite(s): None |
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Distribution Requirement: Meets Humanities Requirement |
Course Description:
In the Fall of 2022, the English-speaking public was inundated with the release of numerous synthetic text-generating chatbots such as OpenAI's ChatGPT, Google's Bard, and Microsoft's Bing AI, among others. These chatbots' level of sophistication prompted many to herald a new renaissance in so-called "artificial intelligence." A similar number decried the ways that synthetic text generators could represent the death-knell of writing as a human-centered endeavor. To what degree are either of these claims true? In this class, we will investigate the impact that synthetic text-generators, so-called "A.I.," can have on the writing process by placing them in their historical context, playing with them and examining what they actually do (and don't do), and reflecting upon their affordances and limitations in our own writing processes. |