Generative AI: challenges and opportunities for English as a discipline
Shakespeare Institute PhD student Cassie Martin writes a Position paper for the English Association.
With the launch of ChatGPT in 2022, Large Language Models (LLMs) exploded into public consciousness. Our expertise in how language creates meaning should place the discipline of English at the heart of this innovation; as OpenAI founding member Andrej Karpathy declared on X, ‘The hottest new programming language is English’ (@karpathy Jan 24, 2023).
Generative AI (GenAI) has been dubbed ‘the fourth education revolution’ but will it help us to become more intelligent or less? This position paper, while certainly not exhaustive in scope, attempts to offer some guidance in evaluating the challenges and opportunities presented by GenAI in the light of some of the English Association’s core beliefs and values...Read full paper