Let’s Talk About Reading

 

Everyone is concentrating on how AI will revolutionize writing in most fields. But there is at least one other aspect that could help students, educators, and scholars alike: it can help with reading.

As Christopher Brennan explains it in his article, The real value of large language models like GPT-4 isn’t in writing, it’s reading:

When working on any type of research, we of course need to search for relevant information in the scholarship, which can take a long time. Some of the articles we read will be absolutely useful, others not so much. When someone is limited on time, ChatGPT can help by summarizing articles, chapters, or even whole books, so that we can decide whether it is helpful in our work. Once these data points are in front of us, we can decide which source we want to read in full to be used in our research. This can be really helpful in trying to narrow down dozens of potential sources.

Have you thought about using the chatbot this way before?

Find the whole article here: https://sifted.eu/articles/gpt-4-value-reading