Jennifer Reid is a consultant and researcher with the Winnipeg School of Communication, and a contributor to its journal, Winnsox. Her abiding passion is exploration of the interconnections between language, media, and identity. She has lectured and presented at universities around the world on topics focusing on the media and communications. Learn more about Jennifer.
-
ChatGPT Party 4
In this episode of ChatGPT Party, I challenge the chatbot to produce a total of three levelled essays on sharks: open thesis. Selachologists everywhere, beware—you have some stiff competition in this bot. -
ChatGPT Party 3
In this episode of ChatGPT Party, I force the chatbot to pump out five different essays on Shakespeare’s Hamlet. At this stage, I’m interested to know if the bot can do any better than the average Shakespearean scholar. Helpfully, the bot gave my experiment the title, “Hamlet’s Themes and Motifs.” -
ChatGPT Party 2
In this episode of ChatGPT Party, I sit down with the chatbot to casually probe how it handles some Semantics 101 queries, the annoying characterization of Shakespeare as “Old English,” and the relative meanings of “scat.” Helpfully, the bot gave our conversation the title, “Negative Response.” -
ChatGPT Party 1
In this episode of ChatGPT Party, I sit down with the chatbot to explore aspects of GPT models for natural language production, what university professors should do about ChatGPT, and some of its limitations. Helpfully, the chatbot gave our conversation the title, “GPTs for Language Generation.” -
Academic Writing and ChatGPT
What’s to be done? A comprehensive guide to university writing assignments and assessment in a world with ChatGPT. -
Generation AI Coda
This instalment, “Coda: A Political Question of the First Order,” concludes the three-part article series, “Generation AI: The Other Environmental Crisis.” It invites us to step, individually and in community, into our creative, ethical, and political power for the active shaping of AI in the present—for our common future. -
Generation AI Part 3
This article is the third instalment in a three-part series, “Generation AI: The Other Environmental Crisis,” exploring the social cultural, neurobiological, and relational impact of AI—the other environmental crisis affecting humans today. Part 3, “I have Studied Language, Behold How Humane I am,” analyzes the relational aspect of AI use and abuse as it meets with the human need for connection and communication—the backdrop against which humans are being evaluated on a coevolutionary path with AI. -
Generation AI Part 2
This article is the second instalment in a three-part series, Generation AI: The Other Environmental Crisis, exploring the sociocultural, neurobiological, and relational impact of AI—the other environmental crisis affecting human today. Part 2, “Redefining Success,” examines how the neurobiological effects of AI are changing definitions of AI success, and shaping its development and deployment. -
Generation AI Part 1
This 3-part article series explores the sociocultural, neurobiological, and relational impact of AI—the other environmental crisis affecting humans today. PART 1, “Saving Celeste,” examines the social and cultural pressures represented by the Google x Douglas Coupland project, “Slogans for the Class of 2030.” -
Reconciling the Past
Protesters in Winnipeg topple a statue of Queen Victoria, putting an end to the reign of Canada’s Nineteenth Century.