ChatGPT for Writers: “Crutch” or “Superpower”?
A presentation at Harvard’s legendary CS50 class featuring Jay Dixit from the OpenAI Community Team
About This Talk
These days, everyone's worried about students using ChatGPT to write their papers—a concern that can overshadow the many valid ways it can serve the creative process. If you see ChatGPT primarily as a prose-generating machine, you might be missing out on its potential as a practical writing tool.
As it happens, some of the best writers of our generation are using ChatGPT—not to do their writing for them, but as a sounding board, research assistant, thesaurus, and editor.
Join us as Jay Dixit (OpenAI's Head of Community for Writers), comedy writer Sarah Rose Siskind (StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson) and Hugo Award-winning sci-fi writer Ken Liu (author of The Paper Menagerie, translator of The Three-Body Problem) share how professional writers are using ChatGPT in their creative process.
What You'll Learn
- Ethical AI frameworks for educational settings
- Practical techniques professional writers use with ChatGPT
- The "Socratic AI" approach that amplifies rather than replaces human creativity
- Real-world examples from award-winning authors and comedy writers
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