professor @UofT @UofTLinguistics, phonology, phonetics, EDI-focused pedagogy, 🇨🇦🇺🇸🌈 in Toronto (he/him), ludling on 🦋
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Not sure whether I'll post much over on 🦋 but if you care to follow me there, I'm ludling+[the usual].
I had something similar happen. I had a student who came to weekly office hours for help. They would ask about some concept, so I would ask about a related concept to help prompt their thinking. But they rarely knew enough to respond, so they asked ChatGPT on their laptop.
After a few weeks (and some failed quizzes), the student finally realized that they just weren't learning anything, so they followed my advice and stopped using AI for studying. After that, their office visits were much more productive AND their marks improved.
"Does the existence of one hallucinated reference mean the entire paper is worthless?"
Yes! I don't see how that isn't obvious.
(1) If you support claim X with a hallucinated reference, then X can no longer be taken as true, and everything derived from it is questionable.
(5) Hallucinated references may spread through continued careless citation practices, which pollutes the literature and makes every scholar's job harder. LLM junk is particularly pernicious because it can be produced so much more quickly and convincingly than traditional junk.
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We ran 80,000 simulations, and you spelled 'definitely' wrong in 71,052 of them.
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Yes they can control the weather.
It’s ridiculous for anyone to lie and say it can’t be done.
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Weather manipulation is possible at small scales (for example, “cloud seeding”).
However, weather patterns in general are naturally occurring and cannot be “controlled”. Hurricanes and other large storms cannot be created artificially with modern technology.
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See Chapters 3 and 4 of Essentials of Linguistics for a broader view of phonetics and phonology that includes other modalities: essentialsoflinguistics.ca/
ALT Linguistics has a number of subfields. Here are just a few: phonetics Phonetics is the study of how humans produce and perceive sounds. It has 3 branches: the physiology of how we produce sounds (articulatory phonetics); the acoustic properties of speech sounds (acoustic phonetics); and how humans perceive sounds (auditory phonetics).
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