WRT205 Blog Spring 2023

  As I stated in my portfolio post, I chose three friends of similar age to me to answer my potential research questions. This means that, overall, I’ve chosen my own generation to be the audience for my pitch. The reason I chose my generation is because of the pitch content itself – my generation uses technology the most out of any other generation, which means that we are affected most by technology’s advances. Most of us are in school as well, taking writing classes, so the development and usage of AI will definitely affect our ability to produce pieces for class. AI is also of hot interest in today’s day and age, so it’s easy to reach people of my gen eration who are interested in the subject. I’ve used various forms of social media to reach my intended audience about the subject of AI, and not surprisingly, I’ve gotten a lot of responses and opinions that have aided me in developing my work.   In doing research for this project, I challenged myself to look at source...

  Research question: How does AI impact our ability to do things, including writing? Is it a good thing that more and more types of AI are being developed, or are there too many cons?     I think that this question raises a lot of points of discussion. AI has been developed to help society thrive; we have machines doing things for us to make our lives easier. One example of a form of AI that’s taken the world by storm is ChatGPT – a software produced by OpenAI . ChatGPT is an AI system that can do lots of things – ranging from writing essays and poetry to solving complex mathematical problems. You can ask AI to write on literally any topic, and it will. Tasks that take a while can be reduced to mere minutes – according to a New York Times article, special education teacher Eli Snyder states, “What used to take me an hour now takes me five minutes ”. This, obviously, rises concerns with teachers and professors around the globe – students can use this software to ...