Dr Dave Hitchcock
Historian: orcid.org/0000-0002-8378-4968
Course Director and research unit lead, CCCU.
Currently: "Dying Homeless, 1600-2013", Soon: 'The Ends of Poverty in the British Atlantic, 1600-1800' (2nd album). He/him.
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- Reposted by Dr Dave HitchcockI am looking for a new job. I am very good at Computer. I should be allowed to work from home. I can do Design and also Spreadsheets and I am delightful. I can do what ChatGPT can but better because I am a real person with a brain. Please hire me, this is not a joke.
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Sam Altman describes ChatGPT as merely “a calculator for words” the man responsible for destroying education doesn't understand writing, thinking, or math, although, to be fair, he certainly does understand capital - So last week in a conference paper I (rather arrogantly) came up with a definition for "historical bullshit", building on Frankfurt and good work on LLMs so far. I explained why I think that's all an AI piece of "history content" can ever be {bullshit}. Here you can find the full text of my talk:
- I just got done talking to a room full of historians about "AI" last week, so this is timely. Things we do not need to do: go back to all in-person exams. Things we do need to do: teach students to value their own thoughts and their own voice. Teach them to interrogate the source of information.
