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Christopher Potts

Christopher Potts

Against University-wide policies concerning AI writing assistants

For my Winter 2023 Stanford course Introduction to Semantics and Pragmatics, I adopted a pragmatic policy regarding the use of AI writing…

Feb 18, 2023

GPT-3 (davinci-003) prompt with completion. The prompt is “Any policy against AI writing assistants will be arbitrary: Everyone should run a spellcheck program, and many of us rely on autocomplete” and the model continues with “and grammar-correction functions, so it would be hard to draw a line between acceptable and unacceptable tools.”

Feb 18, 2023

Christopher Potts

Is it possible for language models to achieve language understanding?

I was invited to deliver a few remarks at an HAI symposium on OpenAI’s GPT-3 project, at the end of October. I chose for my title “Is it…

Oct 5, 2020

Upside-down image of a blue lake above a blue sky with a white raft seeming to hover in the sky.

Oct 5, 2020

Christopher Potts

Christopher Potts

Stanford Professor of Linguistics and, by courtesy, of Computer Science, and member of @stanfordnlp and @StanfordAILab . He/Him/His.

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