Description: On Humans, Machines & The Space Between
These rules are for my research lab .
Do not use ChatGPT or any other genAI tool. Since 2022, my students and my research team have been increasingly using ChatGPT to help (re)write sentences, abstracts, or even entire paragraphs and sections of a paper. The argument is that it looks more professional and has fewer errors. As a reader, I am tired of reading generated text: It is often repetitive and shallow. It can miss entirely the point you are trying to make or worse make up an entirely different point. You can write it better. Even if it is
The bigger concern here is that “writing is thinking”. If you let a tool do the writing for you, you are not clarifying your ideas, figuring out the bigger picture or logically constructing and validating your arguments and algorithms.