I found Chiang’s comparison of ChatGPT to a blurry JPEG interesting because it explains how AI can produce information that appears accurate while leaving out important details. I think this raises a bigger question about how much people actually understand the information they receive from AI. Personally, I use ChatGPT quite often, not just for …
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Oct 13
Proposal
Elyas Obad 09/27/2026 Jonah Brucker-Cohen For the Critical Analysis paper, I would like to analyze the inherent bias within the AI platform, ChatGPT. ChatGPT is a large language model (LLM) developed by OpenAI that uses large amounts of training data to generate human-like responses. Although ChatGPT is often viewed as …
Sep 30
AI Proposal Paper Topic:
My proposal idea/topic for Assignment 1 will be to research how to ChatGPT (a multimodal generative AI system using large language models) “works”, it’s interface, as well as analyzing potential biases and how clerical human error can be harmful when programming these systems of artificial intelligence (real world/social scientific impact). I will also include how …
Sep 30
Oct 13 HW
One interesting thing I’ve learned from “Sherry Tuckle’s Reclaiming Conversations” is that technology can actually make people avoid real conversations. She explains how people sometimes choose texting or using their phones because face to face conversations can feel uncomfortable or require more effort. I thought this was interesting because even though technology helps us stay …
Sep 29
Readings for September 29
• Crawford, Kate, NY Times, “Artificial Intelligence’s White Guy Problem” Artificial Intelligence presents a threat to humanity. It has a history of depicting bad behavior such as racial, sexual, and gender discrimination through various examples. Machine-learning algorithms contain many flaws and errors which can be seen through the forms of discrimination being built into them. …
Sep 29
Proposal
MCS 350 Critical Analysis paper proposal.docx My proposal for the Critical Analysis paper.
