Good read mate - thanks for writing (or did you?!). It depends what we are writing for. I was having a conversation about report writing in the office, some awesome teachers were telling me that they all sound the same (now - like they haven't been copied and pasted for years!) and the over-use of language takes away the personal tounch. My view is that parents want a detailed account of their kids learning and what they can do to improve. That is what a report is for, the parents. The parents do not see all the other reports and therefore if their report is detailed, consistent with what is happening in the classroom and helps them understand the progress, job done. AI is a great tool for it.
I think the content above would have been naff if you had used AI though I am sure you did to research. I did write my dissertation in the days of AI - it was a wonderful research assistant and allowed me to cover a far greater scope of ideas. However, construction of my dissertation was still completely my idea, as was the writing. I think we might be at the stage where that is the most important thing - to not forget we have our own brains just because AI can throw something quickly together - mind you, as in reports, sometimes that does the job!
Yes, absolutely - I keep coming back to agency..."is this usage (of AI) growing or depleting my agency?"
I got some feedback on something I had submitted the other day and instantly knew it was AI, and it felt a bit pointless and tick-boxy...it meant nothing even though it was sufficiently complementary. I really want to maintain the feel 'true' for my kids on their work, my awful handwriting scrawled all over it, and the usefulness of the chat we have as I have to try and decipher it for them! :))
I really like what Tyler Cowen says in the video about writing with AI. Like you, he uses it very much as a research assistant...and again, the agency you have in your thinking and searching enriches the results to allow you to write better, with deeper meanings and better understanding. Ultimately, higher agency - AI makes you even better. Low agency - you get stripped of what little agency you had!
Good read mate - thanks for writing (or did you?!). It depends what we are writing for. I was having a conversation about report writing in the office, some awesome teachers were telling me that they all sound the same (now - like they haven't been copied and pasted for years!) and the over-use of language takes away the personal tounch. My view is that parents want a detailed account of their kids learning and what they can do to improve. That is what a report is for, the parents. The parents do not see all the other reports and therefore if their report is detailed, consistent with what is happening in the classroom and helps them understand the progress, job done. AI is a great tool for it.
I think the content above would have been naff if you had used AI though I am sure you did to research. I did write my dissertation in the days of AI - it was a wonderful research assistant and allowed me to cover a far greater scope of ideas. However, construction of my dissertation was still completely my idea, as was the writing. I think we might be at the stage where that is the most important thing - to not forget we have our own brains just because AI can throw something quickly together - mind you, as in reports, sometimes that does the job!
Yes, absolutely - I keep coming back to agency..."is this usage (of AI) growing or depleting my agency?"
I got some feedback on something I had submitted the other day and instantly knew it was AI, and it felt a bit pointless and tick-boxy...it meant nothing even though it was sufficiently complementary. I really want to maintain the feel 'true' for my kids on their work, my awful handwriting scrawled all over it, and the usefulness of the chat we have as I have to try and decipher it for them! :))
I really like what Tyler Cowen says in the video about writing with AI. Like you, he uses it very much as a research assistant...and again, the agency you have in your thinking and searching enriches the results to allow you to write better, with deeper meanings and better understanding. Ultimately, higher agency - AI makes you even better. Low agency - you get stripped of what little agency you had!