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Human or AI? Connectives Hold the Clues 

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million words generated by ChatGPT (a commonly used AI tool) and concluded that, when compared to a human writer, it is roughly 1,000 times more likely to use the term “re-imagined,” 400 times more likely to use the term “graphene,” and more than 600 times likely to use the term “bioluminescent.” Gibbs (2023) conducted a review involving 1.2

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What Should We Do About Undergrads Who Want to Pursue a Humanities Doctorate?

Inside Higher Ed

It conveys many unsettling truths about the academy that you might find hard to stomach. program in French and history, tells a story that resembles that of many humanities graduate students: that “the transformative experience I had in the classroom led me to dedicate my whole life to academia. ” It’s a tough read.

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Human or AI? Connectives Hold the Clues 

Faculty Focus

million words generated by ChatGPT (a commonly used AI tool) and concluded that, when compared to a human writer, it is roughly 1,000 times more likely to use the term “re-imagined,” 400 times more likely to use the term “graphene,” and more than 600 times likely to use the term “bioluminescent.” Gibbs (2023) conducted a review involving 1.2

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Harvard cancels planned fellowship for human rights leader

Inside Higher Ed

Image: Kenneth Roth, former executive director of Human Rights Watch, expected to follow his nearly 30-year run at the international nonprofit organization with a fellowship at Harvard University’s Carr Center for Human Rights Policy. “I worry more about younger academics. “I’m an older figure.

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Would Free College Boost Humanities Majors?

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Just Visiting Last week, without putting much thought into it, I put up a Twitter poll asking: “In your opinion would more students major in the humanities if college was tuition free?” Computer science, STEM and medical majors have gobbled up the share that used to belong to the humanities.

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Weekend Reading: What to do about university funding?

HEPI

This chapter was authored by David Willetts, Minister for Universities and Science from 2010 to 2014 and author of A University Education (2017). So, the first thing universities need to do is to be as transparent as possible about the costs they face. That then opens the question of what should be done about the system.

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Humane Ingenuity 44: Bookwork and Cloud Labs

Dan Cohen

(Sara Gothard, Library of Babel , 2017, in the Jamaica Plain branch of the Boston Public Library, part of their recently digitized art collection.). We have become familiar with how technology, media, commerce, and forms of human expression are deeply intertwined. Subscribe to the Humane Ingenuity newsletter : Enter your email.