If you’re going to use ChatGPT to write your academic annual review, why not get creative?

Why be yourself when, with the help of ChatGPT, you could be channeling great writers of the past?

Andrew Maynard
EDGE OF INNOVATION

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Yesterday I posted a very long article on working with ChatGPT to write my annual academic self-evaluation — a task that I dread each year!

The results were pretty impressive — by working with ChatGPT, I managed to get a compelling evaluation together without the usual existential angst this process usually leads to.

But this got me thinking — why stop at boring and conventional prose when my self-evaluation could be so much more interesting!

And so I asked ChatGPT to reproduce my assessment in the style of Edgar Allen Poe, Edward Lear, and Sylvia Plath.

This is what I got:

Goals, aspirations, and program

(in the style of Edgar Allen Poe)

From the depths of my studies and ponderings, my vision doth emerge, a daunting and foreboding force. With two decades of experience at the forefront of technological change, I seek to shape the future of humanity through the examination of the dark and mysterious impacts of advanced technology upon the essence of what it is to be human.

As I delve into the unknown, I am haunted by questions, unanswerable and enigmatic, surrounding the…

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Andrew Maynard
EDGE OF INNOVATION

Scientist, author, & Professor of Advanced Technology Transitions at Arizona State University