I don’t use generative AI or LLMs for any purpose at this time. You can trust that no artifacts that I author (code, or text)
I don’t have a specific objection to these tools; I try to follow the field fairly closely and I’m overall ambivalent on the whole topic. I don’t have any coherent dogma.
My reasoning as follows:
- Per a variety of metrics, the conventional resources I’m using now seem to be working reasonably well.
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- I do believe that as a taxpayer-funded researcher I have an obligation to the public to use the best tools I can , not just what I happen to know. So this might be a bit of a cop-out.
I’ve seen people pooh-pooh the next generation in ways that I think are not reasonable - e.g. telling off a grad student for watching a training video on a topic rather than reading the textbook, and I don’t want to precipitate and continue that tradition. however, this is my internal position at this time.