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Category: Artificial Intelligence
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In our new "how can we help you?" thread, a reader asks: Lately, I’ve been trying out ChatGPT-4o on some of my own manuscripts—just asking it to summarize the papers and see what it picks up. To my surprise, it actually does a pretty good job. It seems to understand what I'm trying to say,…
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In our most recent "how can we help you?" thread, a reader asks: What do we make of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2I3KQjHfZjY The creator does not direct their concerns towards Academic Philosophy (or any other part of the Humanities), but as someone pursuing their postgraduate/doctorate/postdoc, how seriously should one take the rather strongly made suggestions in the video?…
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In our new "how can we help you?" thread, a reader asks: Does anyone have insight into what drives traffic to philpaper/people, or how awareness of pages spreads? I guess it's hard to track the exact flow of awareness? I usually get c.1000 hits a month on my papers, but the for the last 5…
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In our most recent "how can we help you?" thread, a reader asks: I'm required to teach a remote asynchronous course this summer. Rather than pretending AI does not exist, I plan to conduct oral exams instead of written assignments (I can administer the exams synchronously). Does anyone have any suggestions about conducting oral exams?…