After publishing “ How to professor”, several people said they found it helpful, and asked whether I had a similar post on writing. Luckily, we have held an annual writing workshop in the lab for the last few years, so there already was a presentation.

Amid the rise of artificial intelligence, technophobes and Luddites have continued to insist that machines “can’t really write”—at least not the wa...

A few months after ChatGPT was released, the neural network pioneer Terrence Sejnowski wrote about coming to grips with the shock of what large language models (LLMs) could do: “Something is beginning...