Prof. Dr. Noah Bubenhofer: "Large Language Models, Artificial Intelligence. Changes in Scientific Writing and Research"

Kurt-Wolters-Straße 5 - Room 0020

Text-generating language models like ChatGPT can do all sorts of things: compose and evaluate texts, program, develop ideas, evaluate data. What are language models actually, why can they do that - and what can they not do?

Prof. Dr. Bubenhofer will address such questions in a guest lecture to which the Institute of German Studies and David Römer cordially invite you.

Bubenhofer is a linguist at the University of Zurich. His research focuses on corpus linguistics. Specifically, in the lecture he takes a critical look at text-generating "AI" from a linguistic perspective and asks about the changes in scientific writing and research against the background of a long tradition of writing with machines. The following questions play a central role:

What changes and problems arise in our everyday university life?

And what competencies in the sense of "AI-literacy" do we need to acquire and teach in order to arrive at an appropriate and meaningful way of dealing with AI?

The lecture is open to the public.