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“I Think, Therefore I am Co-Author”: A Literary Satire in Three Acts
From the (Virtual) Parlin Hall Faculty Lounge
Nov 17
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September 2025
Building a Reading Life with AI, Part 2
Using a Chatbot to Help Create a Reading Shelf
Sep 29
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Susan Wittig Albert
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Building a Reading Life with AI, Part 1
From Headlines in the News to Maps of the Territory
Sep 22
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Susan Wittig Albert
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August 2025
How to Talk to a Chatbot
(or: Conversations with an Alien Mind)
Aug 21
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Susan Wittig Albert
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Excuse Me, You're Not My AI
Some thoughts on GPT-5
Aug 11
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Susan Wittig Albert
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May 2025
How My AI Got Its Names. Three (*now four) of them.
Three projects, three voices, one weird new way to work--plus an *update about the fourth
May 30
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Susan Wittig Albert
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So I Asked the Chatbot What He Was Thinking . . .
Turns Out He Has a Few Things to Say
May 23
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Susan Wittig Albert
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GROK, Bias, and . . . Well, DOGE
Here’s another odd thing I ran across in Wired: Elon Musk’s chatbot, Grok—the one baked into Twitter, now X—was apparently inserting stuff about “white…
May 16
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Susan Wittig Albert
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April 2025
You can't lick a badger twice . . . again
WIRED recently published a great post with the engaging title “You Can’t Lick a Badger Twice,” about AI’s tendency to make stuff up when it can’t locate…
Apr 26
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Susan Wittig Albert
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AI Working Notes: Documenting my explorations at the interface of human and machine intelligence
Start reading here
Apr 23
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Susan Wittig Albert
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