Prof. Dr. Noah Bubenhofer: "Large Language Models, Artificial Intelligence. Changes in academic writing and research"

02.11.2023
10:15 a.m.
Kurt-Wolters-Straße 5 - Room 0020

Text-generating language models such as ChatGPT can do all sorts of things: write and evaluate texts, program, develop ideas, evaluate data. What are language models actually, why can they do this - and what can't they do?

Prof. Dr. Bubenhofer will address these questions in a guest lecture to which the Institute of German Studies and David Römer cordially invite you.

Bubenhofer is a linguist at the University of Zurich. His research focuses on corpus linguistics. In his lecture, he will take a critical look at text-generating "AI" from a linguistic perspective and ask about the changes in academic writing and research against the background of a long tradition of writing with machines. The following questions play a central role:

What changes and problems arise in our everyday university life?

And what skills in the sense of "AI literacy" do we need to develop and teach in order to achieve an appropriate and meaningful approach to AI?

The lecture is open to the university.