Tag: citation
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Weekly digest 31
A weekly collection of things I found interesting, thought-provoking, or inspiring. It’s almost always about higher education, mostly technology, and usually AI-related.
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Weekly digest (26 Jun – 02 Jul 2023)
I’ve been thinking a lot about practical guidance for academics who are feeling disoriented by ChatGPT and other language models. Some recognise there’s no getting away from this, and are actively experimenting with the technology to try and understand it better. Even if they’re not embracing LLMs with a happy heart, they can see we…
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Weekly digest (29 May-04 Jun 2023)
I’ve been camping in Wales for most of the past week, so haven’t had much time for reading, writing, and posting (which is why most of the posts in the stream have been quotes from my Readwise library). Apologies for the lack of diversity. Normal programming will hopefully resume soon. It makes no sense to…
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The “problem” of citation in language models
Recent large language models often answer factual questions correctly. But users can’t trust any given claim a model makes without fact-checking, because language models can hallucinate convincing nonsense. In this work we use reinforcement learning from human preferences (RLHP) to train “open-book” QA models that generate answers whilst also citing specific evidence for their claims,…
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Example of a tutorial session with ChatGPT as the tutor
I wanted to do a little experiment using ChatGPT as a tutor, after coming across a project for building a personal AI tutor (see my last weekly digest). I’ve posted the transcript of the exchange below. A few points of interest I thought worth noting: When reading through the exchange below, remember that ChatGPT only…
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Generative AI will never be as bad as it is today
Google Scholar citations (yes, I know that this is a flawed metric, but it’s a useful heuristic nonetheless) support the first two of these recommendations (I didn’t check the 3rd, to be honest). But a month ago, we all felt smug because ChatGPT was inventing citations. If you haven’t realised it yet, generative AI will…
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Who cares about “referencing”?
Why do we teach our students how to reference? Mendeley, EndNote, Refworks, etc. all do it for you. In my experience the emphasis for students in higher education is almost always on what the citation looks like and not on the work the citation does. When it comes to learning about referencing for students, the focus is almost…
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Publish or perish: A nifty little research tool
“Publish or perish” is a great little research tool that retrieves and analyses your citations. It uses Google Scholar for the raw data and is then able to calculate the following: Total number of papers and total number of citations Average citations per paper, citations per author, papers per author, and citations per year Hirsch’s…
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How do students perceive academic literacy?
Narrative means towards literacy understandings: exploring transformations within literacies and migrating identities Last week I attended a short seminar by Dr. Catherine Hutchings from UCT, who presented some of the results of her PhD study looking at academic literacy and student identity. Here are some notes I took during the seminar. How do students develop…
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Publication and citation
Yesterday I had a conversation with a senior colleague where we briefly discussed the increasing importance of formal publication as it relates to promotion at our institution. Since I’m doing my PhD through publication, I’m also working on how to fit my needs as a student into the university’s need for academics to publish. There’s…