sccarlson.bsky.social
Associate Professor in Biblical and Early Christian Studies at Australian Catholic University (Ph.D. Duke, New Testament, 2012). Många bäckar små gör en stor å.
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Congratulations!!
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I'll revise based on feedback at NAPS and send it to a journal. Let me know if you'd like to comment on my NAPS text.
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How many micro-Neusners is that? (1 Neusner = 1000 books).
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I've always liked his willingness to dip into Late Antiquity.
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It will be open access too.
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Time really flies. My first was in 2001.
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Yes, it's like a rite of passage.
(BTW, why does the metadata say 2008 when it published in 1998?)
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I’ve been wanting to write into this area for a while.
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> It can’t (or I’m not figuring out how to prompt for it):
1. Provide any useful insight into the Pistis Christou debate.
2. Generate randomly sampled examples of a grammatical construct from the New Testament.
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Its answer, as I interpret it, is that using AI universities can do a lot more and better with less: less money, fewer grad students, smaller professoriate.
What I don't foresee at the moment is whether this will result in a massive consolidation or a massive fragmentation of the market.
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> These discussions can lead to new areas of inquiry and reshape the humanities as scholars grapple with the implications of AI."
It was thinking of economic disruptions, which the AI did not address. Time for another prompt.
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5. Ethical and Philosophical Implications: The integration of LLMs into academia raises important ethical and philosophical questions about the nature of knowledge, authorship, and the role of technology in human life. >
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4. Interdisciplinary Collaboration: By bridging gaps between different fields of study, LLMs can facilitate interdisciplinary research and collaboration. They can help scholars from various disciplines find common ground and work together on complex problems that require a multifaceted approach.
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3. Personalized Learning: LLMs can offer personalized tutoring and support to students, adapting to their learning styles and providing tailored feedback. This can enhance the learning experience, making education more accessible and effective for a diverse student body.
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2. Automated Content Creation: LLMs can generate high-quality written content, ... articles, even books. This could change the way academic content is produced, potentially reducing the time and effort required for writing and allowing scholars to focus more on critical analysis and interpretation.
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1. Enhanced Research Capabilities: LLMs can process and analyze vast amounts of text quickly, providing researchers with comprehensive literature reviews, identifying patterns, and suggesting new research directions. This can accelerate the pace of research and uncover insights that might be missed.
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This is helpful! Never thought journals implementing AI to make judgements.
Some areas where I think it will have positive impacts:
• improved search and discovery of digital collections
• faster editing/indexing
• transcribing documents
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Not just journals, but book publishers, admissions committees, hiring committees, tenure & promotion committees, …
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> science/STEM may be different. Universities in that case would be aggregators of STEM research.)
9. To paraphrase a Danish proverb, “prediction is hard, especially about the future,” so take these thoughts with a grain of salt.
But there will be big, industrial-revolution size changes with AI.
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> from teaching, which means that universities will cease to be places where a lot of research happens, especially in the humanities. This could be a return to the pre-Prussian model of scholarship, where it was driven by patron-supported amateurs instead of professionals. (Due to lab costs >
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> questions that research will be directed.
7. Not every academic will understand how to use AI, so university administration will get into the game, essentially corralling the use of AI in certain channels, mostly for cost effectiveness.
8. It’s possible that AI will decouple research from >
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> more important stuff.
5. I suspect some journals, especially the predatory ones, will complete outsource their judgment to AIs.
6. AI assistance will enable some research questions that involve sifting through a lot of data to be done with smaller teams. This will change the topics or >
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…, finding secondary literature, summarizing them, integrating them.
3. Both 1 and 2 will reduce the demand for graduate students.
4. AIs agents will be involved in peer review, initially for screening out patently unpublishable work so that human reviewers can focus on the >
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It was a 7b parameters. Working better with 14b
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Looking better
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There's context. I first asked it to translate John 1:1a from Latin (which I gave) into Italian.
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My model may be underpowered, now doubling the number of parameters.
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At least as long as the setup remains underpowered.
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Yep, but it looks like I need a hardware upgrade.
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Clever
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For anyone who doesn't know Latin, that's like the AI claiming that "it was" is in present tense and in second person. Or how English speakers would say it, "you are"
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It is a smaller distill. Looking in to get a better graphics card….