Professor and Co-Director of the Center for Digital Narrative at the University of Bergen
Professor and Co-Director of the Center for Digital Narrative at the University of Bergen
This is great; Kathleen quotes a talk Anne Balsamo gave at the MLA yesterday where she argued that “academics must cease their quest to educate students-as-replicants and instead start thinking about educating students-as-mutants”.
Yeah! Go mutant students!
It’s a damn good point, actually.
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I’m in Australia! Hooray! My mum and dad and sister and I moved from Perth to Bergen when I was a kid, and ever since I’ve loved two homes: Australia and Norway. Walking off the plane last night and breathing in the scent of eucalyptus in the warm night air […]
That’s almost the title of a paper I read today, Do Multilingual LLMs Think In English?, which uses several methods to poke into what a language model actually does when responding to a prompt in a language other than English. Spoiler: it looks as though it goes via English even […]
I gave a talk about AI today for a group of knowledge workers in the public sector – people who are asked to write reports summarising research on a specific topic, and who coordinate funding schemes and advise on policy – and I asked them how they use LLMs in […]
Occasionally I love ChatGPT. Like when I gave it a research paper I’d written and the itinerary for my planned trip to Australia this November and asked it to look for related art exhibitions I should visit or people to meet and it came up with some great suggestions with […]
Annette Markham and I gave the opening keynote for NORDMEDIA 2025 together and had a lot of fun! I’ll try to write more about our talk later, but I wanted to share this list of ideas from the audience right away. The tagline of the conference is “Imagining Livable Futures”, […]
This morning I received the copy-edited version of a paper I recently submitted to a journal. This is always cause for celebration, another step towards publication accomplished! But this time the copy-editor wasn’t human, it was an AI. We have undertaken a light text edit using the tool Paperpal Preflight; […]
Magnus Enger
Reminds me of a Daniel Dennett-quote: “A scholar is a library’s way of making another library”… 😉
Jill
Oh god. That’s kind of a sad profession I’m stuck in eh?
So what are blogs, then?