Part of me would like to begin by apologizing (a much maligned tactic) for writing yet another piece on chat gpt.\u00a0 A greater part of me is unashamed.\u00a0 It is 2024 and I’ve been tasked with writing about technology,\u00a0 how can I avoid it?\u00a0 I’ve used gpt extensively now and I am amazed by it.\u00a0 The fact that it has captured even us, a population jaded by an incredible pace of technological advance surely says much. There are times however, I find myself looking to place the technology (llms) in some precise place on the spectrum starting at the mundane and ending in the otherworldly, the magical, the mind blowing.\u00a0 Is this generation of AI more akin to a fancy autocomplete, maybe merely a search algorithm unburdened with the relentless focus of monetization?\u00a0 Or does the code touch on more, does it portend some artificial life force?\u00a0 This is one of the questions I hope I get to explore in some small way this term with the AI coder project for cs 467.<\/p>\n
I have to admit my excitement, llm’s have almost felt more like a burden in the two terms they’ve been available to me while I’ve been in school.\u00a0 That probably sounds odd, but really it’s not.\u00a0 Llm’s like chatgpt are in a grey zone as far as I can tell with regards to university classes.\u00a0 We as students really have no idea to what extent we should or even can use them.\u00a0 For me there is certainly a sense of dread when using chatgpt while I’m in a class.\u00a0 What questions are ethical to ask? What could be considered academic dishonesty?\u00a0 How much of a disservice to my education am I doing using this tool?\u00a0 For that reason, my policy has been to leave llms to uses outside of school.\u00a0 The AI coder project asks me to do the exact opposite.<\/p>\n
The project aims to see what we can do with this generation of AI.\u00a0 Essentially we’ll be using any AI we can get our hands to create a project of our choice!\u00a0 We’ll get to see how far the AI can get us in a real world project.\u00a0 Lucky for me, this will give me some further data towards putting AI in its proper place on the aforementioned spectrum.\u00a0 It seems undeniable at this point that the future of the software industry will be transformed by AI and it’s hard to not believe those who adopt it earliest and discover its use cases will have an advantage in what is currently a competitive workplace.\u00a0 For these reasons, along with the forbidden fruit of using AI for my schoolwork, I’m excited for the term.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Part of me would like to begin by apologizing (a much maligned tactic) for writing yet another piece on chat gpt.\u00a0 A greater part of me is unashamed.\u00a0 It is 2024 and I’ve been tasked with writing about technology,\u00a0 how can I avoid it?\u00a0 I’ve used gpt extensively now and I am amazed by it.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14075,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"blank","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/wheelihz467\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/wheelihz467\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/wheelihz467\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/wheelihz467\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14075"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/wheelihz467\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/wheelihz467\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/wheelihz467\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/6"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/wheelihz467\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/wheelihz467\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/wheelihz467\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}