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An alum speaks wise about life after graduation

2015 alumna and English major Marisa Pizzuli offers 7 things she wished she knew when she graduated a year ago鈥� all good advice!

Writers鈥搇ike you鈥� could help make AI more human

Article from the April 7 Washington Post shows how poets and novelists are bringing their ability to write natural-sounding language, develop characters, and empathize and communicate with audience to help give personality to AI 鈥渂ots鈥� like Siri and Alexa. Pretty cool. It could be fun to come up with lines like these for a living, no?

If you ask Cortana if she is human, she says no, and then she adds a meant-to-be endearing joke: 鈥淏ut I have the deepest respect for humans. You invented calculus 鈥� and milkshakes.鈥�

Thinking About Grad School?

Interesting blog post on the merits, and disadvantages, of pursuing a graduate degree in English.