This will be the last ‘Free Resources’ message till Tuesday 12^th September. With a certain amount of trepidation, I’m driving out to Croatia. It’s a journey we made annually for twenty-five years, but this will be the first time for eighteen years …

1. Maybe not so surprising to learn that software designed to detect the use of ChatGPT by students is often biased against non-native English writers? Here’s an article from Patterns by a team from Stanford University, GPT detectors are biased against non-native English writers https://www.cell.com/patterns/fulltext/S2666-3899(23)00130-7 Has an interesting set of links & references at the end. PDF below.

2. An article on another worrying use for ChatGPT, this time in Iowa, School district uses ChatGPT to help remove library books https://www.popsci.com/technology/iowa-chatgpt-book-ban/

3. Three from The Conversation on working together (or not):

Teamwork is not always the best way of working https://theconversation.com/teamwork-is-not-always-the-best-way-of-working-new-study-211693

Collaborative problem solvers are made not born https://theconversation.com/collaborative-problem-solvers-are-made-not-born-heres-what-you-need-to-know-110663

How many work projects are too many? Here’s why you should tell your boss to stop at five https://theconversation.com/how-many-work-projects-are-too-many-heres-why-you-should-tell-your-boss-to-stop-at-five-190512

4. Here’s a new(ish) podcast from David Runciman on the history of ideas, Past Present Future https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/past-present-future/id1682047968 Try this one on George Orwell? https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/history-of-ideas-george-orwell/id1682047968?i=1000623267325

5. And, finally and I hope amusingly, Lorna Rose Treen cracked the funniest joke at the Edinburgh Fringe this year. She won for her joke: “I started dating a zookeeper, but it turned out he was a cheetah.” In second place was Liz Guterbock with: “The most British thing I’ve ever heard? A lady who said, ‘Well I’m sorry, but I don’t apologise.’ Amos Gill came third with: “Last year I had a great joke about inflation. But it’s hardly worth it now.”