Laaaaaaarge Language Models
It's raining cats and _______
dogs
Vantage Data Centers is developing "Lighthouse," a $15 billion hyperscale AI data center in this town 27 miles north of Milwaukee.
Port Washington
Wolf argues that ____ and ______ are cultural inventions.
Reading and Writing
A concise restatement of another's work.
Summary
This free service on the first floor of Curtin Hall offers one on one support with writing assignment.
The Writing Center
Large language models generally use a special type of neural network that accounts for the T in ChatGPT
Transformer
Emily Bender describes AI chatbots as "stochastic parrots"—meaning they are just mimicking speech and language by...
predicting the next most likely word in a sequence based on statistical probabilities.
This emerged in humans as we began to read and write.
The reading brain circuit.
Understanding how knowledge is created and challenged in different subject areas through reading, writing, and research.
The Segment One Project is due on this date.
October 8, 2026
If a an LLM is an orchestra, this would be the conductor.
Neural network
Researchers at Georgia Tech define AI literacy as “a set of ______ that enables individuals to critically evaluate AI technologies.
competencies
This motoric activity helps retain and remember what you're reading.
Instead of focusing on "plot action" or what a reading is "about," critical readers in college should be able to track this.
authorial action
This former UWM student starred in The Lighthouse (2019), Spiderman (2001), and voiced the scarred Moorish Idol fish Gill in Finding Nemo (2003).
Willem Dafoe.
Detailed vector representations of words that take into account each word’s meanings and relationships with other words
Word Embeddings
John Warner sees the opportunity of AI to remind us to think about writing as a _____ and not a product.
process
This process is one of the greatest disruptions to deep reading.
Skimming
Presents, explains, considers, proposes, contends, maintains, asserts, declares, insists, proves, claims, suggests, offers, determines
These are all an example of THIS recommended feature in summary writing or tracking annotations.
Strong verbs
This campus resource offers medical services as well as free mental health counselling for all students.
SHAW (Student Health and Wellness Center)
GenAI systems know how to fill in the blank of "it's raining cats and ____" because it's doing this process and not magic.
Probabilistic Sequence Prediction
Anthropic Researcher Evan Hubinger said "I personally think it is >10% within the next decade." He was referring to the likelihood that AI will cause ...
Human extinction
Without deep reading, we lose these two "best thoughts."
The author's and our own.
Three types of annotations with different functions that promote critical reading.
Tracking, restatement, reaction.
Your English 101 instructor's first name.
Tim