What you need to know about how AI / LLMs work (J.D. Porter)

Graduate Student Working Group
November 13, 2025 - 3:30pm

Williams 6223


Whether you love them or hate them, tools like ChatGPT and Gemini are increasingly hard to ignore in academic research. This presentation will help you understand more about how they actually do what they do so you can be a better user/critic. We will inevitably get into what they mean for classes where reading and writing are central.

 

Dr. J.D. Porter is Associate Direcrtor of Digital Research in the Humanities in the Price Lab and reluctant expert on artifical intelligents.