A linguist explains what makes human English human, and why you shouldn’t overdo it with large language models.

The 'Bird by Bird' author and Neal Allen discuss their new book 'Good Writing' and their late-in-life romance.

I n a certain, strange way, generative AI peaked with OpenAI’s GPT-2 seven years ago. Little known to anyone outside of tech circles, GPT-2 excelled at producing unexpected answ ...

Education has always been an evolving field, constantly adapting to the changing needs of students and the demands of society.

The poem is a love poem expressing a deep emotional connection and unity between two people. The speaker says he carries his beloved’s heart inside his own, showing how inseparable they are. The poem ...

The poem is an elegy written by Ben Jonson after the death of his seven-year-old son. Jonson expresses heartbreak and says goodbye, calling his son his "best piece of poetry". The poem shows the depth ...

The numbers don’t make for pretty reading. Between 2011 and 2021, the number of students studying English literature at ...

Writing an essay in English doesn’t have to be stressful - especially with the right tools. In this lesson, Claire shows you how to use ChatGPT to plan, organize, and refine your essays while still ...

Poetry and artificial intelligence can appear as opposites—one deeply human; the other cold and mechanical. Sasha Stiles sees them as expressions of the same impulse. Poetry, the Kalmyk- American poet ...

When Craig Schmidt gave his high school English students an assignment based on “Fahrenheit 451,” he threw them a curveball: He told them to use ChatGPT. Schmidt asked the class to write several ...

In some situations, it’s necessary to change the keyboard, for example, if you want to write in a foreign language such as Spanish and need special characters, such as the tilde above a capital letter ...

Education news and commentary, delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 newsletter. Today’s students are on a high-speed trajectory toward an “innovative” future — one in which artificial ...