Event Date
Date & Time
Nov 30, 2023, 12:00 p.m. at the UC Davis Writing Center (Teaching and Learning Center, 4th floor) or Zoom
Description
NOTE: THE ZOOM ROOM WILL OPEN AT NOON, BUT THE EVENT WILL START AT 12:10 p.m.
On November 30th, 2022, OpenAI released ChatGPT 3.0 to the public. Fear, anxiety, and panic mixed with enthusiasm as writers ranging from students to lawyers, novelists to technical communicators, and business writers to poets played with ChatGPT. In the year that has followed, writing with Generative AI (GenAI) has become increasingly common. We are delighted to invite you to a conversation with five professionals about how they have used AI in their writing contexts.
Our panelists are:
--> Sabrina Barr, Associate Attorney at Harrison, Temblador, Hungerford, and Guernsey in Sacramento, specializing in Land Use and Environmental Law. Sabrina's work primarily revolves around writing, including the drafting of easements, development agreements, and advice memoranda for clients.
--> Stan Doherty, Senior Documentation Manager at Google. He is a veteran in the field of technical communication, a leader in connecting industry with academic programs, and an advocate for helping to prepare students for today’s and tomorrow’s technical writing jobs.
--> Gustavo Garcia, Project Coordinator at Valley Vision, a civic organization that works on improving livability in the Sacramento region. Garcia frequently writes reports and other communications and has thoughts to share about how he uses Chat GPT to do this efficiently and effectively.
--> Jason Lowe-Power, Associate Professor, Computer Science at UC Davis. His research focus is hardware-software co-design to improve the efficiency and programmability of modern computer systems.
--> Jonathan Schoelwer, Cybersecurity Analyst at Koch Industries in Wichita, Kansas. Jonathan specializes in protecting industrial control systems and has considerable experience using technical communication to report the findings of his analyses.