The Writing Program at Case Western Reserve University will host Annette Vee, affiliate professor of English and director of the Composition Program at University of Pittsburgh, for the Edward S. and Melinda Sadar Lecture in Writing within the Disciplines. Vee will current “Automating Writing from Androids to AI” Monday, Dec. 11, from 3:15 to 4:30 p.m. within the Tinkham Veale University Senior Classroom.
Generative AI platforms, reminiscent of ChatGPT, have all of a sudden thrust the automation of writing into the general public highlight. Machine-learning strategies behind massive language fashions, such because the GPT sequence, could also be new; nevertheless, for hundreds of years, people have tried to automate writing utilizing mechanical, religious and logical means. The automation of writing parallels an extended historical past of automation, but with a twist: every of those makes an attempt to automate writing additionally implicated a form of synthetic human intelligence. Writing is uniquely human, and as such, it has served as a touchstone for scientific and literary imaginations targeted on replicating human intelligence. This presentation places present conversations about AI writing in historic context with 18th century automata, nineteenth century spiritualists and twentieth century laptop scientists to probe each what writing meant in earlier eras in addition to dominant assumptions of what it meant to be human in these eras.
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About the speaker
At the University of Pittsburgh, Annette Vee teaches undergraduate and graduate programs in writing and digital composition. She is the creator of Coding Literacy: How Computer Programming is Changing Writing (MIT Press, 2017), and co-editor of TextGenEd: Teaching with Text Generation Technologies (WAC Clearinghouse, 2023). She has revealed on laptop programming, blockchain applied sciences, mental property and AI-based textual content era. Her present e-book venture, Automating Writing from Androids to AI, examines why and the way people have sought to automate writing throughout historical past.
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