Humanities - Linguistics/Literature
Coming to a library near you: chatbots!
In a new article, two UdeM librarians consider the possibilities and potential benefits of using ChatGPT and similar chatbots in campus libraries. How can conversational agents such as OpenAI's ChatGPT, often referred to as chatbots, best be used professionally by university libraries? What skills do librarians need in order to master these tools and use them for the benefit of library users? Université de Montréal librarians Teresa Bascik and Stéphanie Pham-Dang explore these questions in an article published in the latest issue of the quarterly French-language journal Documentation et Bibliothèques.
Are algorithms and LLMs changing our conception of literature?
UdeM literature professor Marcello Vitali-Rosati looks at how, for better or worse, computerized large language models are changing how we write - and what we think about it.
Shaping AI: Why the humanities matter in tech innovation
Kem-Laurin Lubin is a PhD candidate in English at the University of Waterloo where she focuses on artificial intelligence (AI) biases and how their inherent discursivity informs the material effect on the lived experience of people, particularly the marginalized.
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Professeur-e assistant-e avec prétitularisation conditionnelle en linguistique Université de Genève
Associate or Full Professor, Kule Chair in Ukrainian Ethnography and Director of the Kule Folklore Centre University of Alberta
Teaching Professor (Assistant or Associate), Japanese Language University of Alberta
Director and Associate/Full Professor, Prince Takamado Japan Centre for Teaching and Research University of Alberta