There’s a lot of buzz right now about the new AI-powered chatbot from OpenAI, ChatGPT. I decided to give it a test drive on a simple coding problem I wanted to solve to see how it might be useful for me. I don’t really have much time to write code these days, so I’m a …
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This semester I’m teaching a ‘Science Breadth’ class, a category of class that all undergraduate students at SMU must take to graduate. While many students are often taking the course reluctantly – as a means to check off this dreaded science requirement – I nevertheless enjoy teaching it because I believe in the importance of …
I gave a talk at the Acoustical Society of America meeting in Denver last week on our teams work exploring the use of infrasound to probe the atmosphere. Our paper was selected for a press conference, and a video of my 5-minute summary and short Q&A is posted here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/j1pfpp9zua45kh8/Explosions-Help-Probe-Elusive-Atmospheric-Waves.mp4?dl=0 My wife said I did …
If it were trained on all the literature on seismology, statistics, and computer science, could an A.I. generate a passable review article titled ‘Big Data Seismology’? I have to admit, this was the question I asked myself when reading about the capability of the latest large language models in a recent New York Times article …
I have to admit that I have a general dislike for awards and medals in science, as they always seem too binary (there are winners and losers), scientists don’t do science to get medals, and the whole scientific enterprise is collaborative (it can be hard to separate and assign value to different contributors). Issac Newton …