Facilitators: Dr. Robert Cummings, Executive Director of AIG and Associate Professor of Writing & Rhetoric, and Marc Watkins, Lecturer of Writing, Department of Writing and Rhetoric

In the past 18 months, artificial intelligence writing assistant applications have grown significantly in their power and reach. We are all familiar with technologies in our chat, email, and word processing applications that offer to complete our sentences. But recent projects like Open AI’s GPT-3 and Meta’s OPT175B go much further, readily answering questions with complete sentences at the level of short paragraphs. These new writing assistants have potentially dramatic implications for testing, short and long form writing assignments, and plagiarism. In this session we will demonstrate these technologies and begin to develop strategies to prepare for student use of AI writing assistants in your classes.