Matthew J. Barnard is a lecturer and author in philosophy. He teaches at Manchester Metropolitan University, is a member of the Executive Committee of the British Society for Phenomenology, and is the founder and editor of their podcast. He has written on Heidegger, Bergson and Kant and his research is currently focussing on the philosophy of Artificial Intelligence.
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ChatGPT shows promise as a helpful interlocutor for research, but its overly complimentary nature threatens its usefulness.
On Friday I attended the launch event of the AI Literacy initiative of the Digital Society Research Group, aka DISC, at Manchester Metropolitan. I recently joined this research group and spoke briefly at it myself. The event was held in hybrid format with the recordings posted to the DISC YouTube channel. The “headline” event was a keynote talk by Mark Carrigan. I particularly enjoyed his analysis of the concern in HE at the moment around subversive use of chatbots as a ‘crisis of trust’. I’d not thought about it like that before, and I think he’s quite right. ...