Chuck Mathewes and Matt Hedstrom (Religious Studies) and Alison Booth (English and DHC) with the DH Center in the Library are offering a Summer Show and Tell, a showcase of research that uses some form of AI. Our event schedules lighten up in the heat of summer–it's a chance for academic faculty and graduate students and library faculty and staff to learn from each other about the latest buzz/panic/range of tools. This was prompted (we use the term in an older sense) by eye-opening conversations that Chuck and Matt have hosted for faculty in Arts and Sciences. 

Research is the key word here; it can be a small or large inquiry. Speakers have been invited to offer ten minutes or less on an example of their experience of AI working well, doing something desirable, accurate, efficient, or even unpredictable. These are specific examples of uses of various AI chatbot LLMs (large language models) for research. 

To begin the event, we'll acknowledge, and for this event set aside, a whole range of important issues: AI and teaching, the environment, the values of privacy and intellectual property, the increasing marginalization of non-English matters. And what gives with this expensive approach modeling everyone’s utterance on the mass of digitized language already used? Of course these topics are not off the table but the show and tell is a conversation that might help us shape more innovative, even resistant use of AI in the university. 

Planned presenters: Adrienne Ghaly (environmental humanities, trends in writing about biodiversity/English); Christian McMillen (Indian land sales/history); Doug Ross (IATH developer) 

Please register in advance to reserve your seat. If you would like to present, contact Alison Booth by Thursday, July 3.