UCO professor responds to artifical intelligence

Kaleb Gonzalez

Contributing Writer

An English professor at the University of Central Oklahoma is revamping English writing courses this semester to adapt to advancements in artificial intelligence, like Open AI’s ChatGPT.

English professor Laura Dumin is the director of the technical writing program at UCO and works with the compositions and rhetoric master’s program. Dumin is running an Institutional Review Boards study to learn how ChatGPT will affect her students’ learning this semester. Dumin said they are looking at this critically.

“I think it is important that, even if we are going to have students use it or not, we know that they are using it, and we have to help them think critically,” Dumin said.

According to the AI’s own description, ChatGPT is a language model developed by OpenAI.

“I am designed to understand and generate human-like responses to natural language input,” the AI, or its programmer, said.

“It is not actually sentient,” Dumin said. “I think that is where people need to remember that it is not going out and finding the best answers for us, but it is using predictive modeling to put together the answers that it thinks fit.”

AQUARIUS January 21-February 18 PISCES February 19-March 20 ARIES March 21-April 19 TAURUS April 20-May 20 GEMINI May 21-June 20

As the innovator of the zodiac, there are two aspects with Mercury in your sign you’ll need to know this week. Tuesday, Mercury squares Uranus, making sure that every single thing that can go wrong will. Not so great. However, Mercury trines Mars the next day, bringing in sweet and clever energy to your communication. Use your powers wisely! Your song for the week is “El Arma Que Te Trajo” by Safety Trance and Arca.

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SAGITTARIUS November 22-December 21

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Vir Go

August 23- September 22

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LIBR A September 23-October 2 2

CANCER June 21-July 22 LEO July 23-August 22 SCORPIO October 23-November 21

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If any instability comes in early in the week, remember you got this! Because of last week’s New Moon in Pisces, this week builds upon how you understand your emotional and material security.

Beginning Friday, three days with the Moon in Taurus will bring you back to center. Your song for the week is “Each Others” by Boyfrndz.