Tag: AI

• But is it fun?

  

  Reflections on “Agentic AI and Research: opportunities and risk”, a SISSA workshop Cover image by Leo Lau & Digit — https://betterimagesofai.org On Friday 15th May 2026, I attended the workshop Agentic AI and Research: opportunities and risk, organised by the Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA) in Trieste. I had been kindly invited by…

  Natalie Hogg

  May 17, 2026

  Academia, Postdoc, Travel

  Academia, agentic AI, agentic research, agents, AI, astronomy, astrophysics, cosmology, Italy, LLM agents, LLMs, physics, research, Science, SISSA, talks, Trieste, workshop

• Find the stable and pull out the bolt

  

  On the use of ChatGPT in academia: a measured response Almost exactly two years ago, I wrote what might charitably be called a think-piece on the use of ChatGPT in academia, or more specifically, my observations on the use of ChatGPT by a handful of my colleagues in the small niche of French cosmology which…

  Natalie Hogg

  March 9, 2026

  Academia

  Academia, AI, artificial intelligence, astronomy, astrophysics, chatgpt, claude, codex, cosmology, early-career researcher, ECR, favourite, gemini, gpt, learning, llm, LLMs, physics, research, teaching, technology

• On the use of ChatGPT in academia

  

  Creation is a sacred act. From the profundity of making a new life to the mundanity of whistling a tune through one’s teeth whilst doing the washing up, human life is filled from end to end with acts of creation. So smitten with creativity are we that we would love to see our own creations…

  Natalie Hogg

  January 15, 2024

  Academia

  Academia, AI, artificial intelligence, arts, astronomy, astrophysics, chatgpt, cosmology, creativity, dystopia, favourite, gpt, gpt4, machine learning, ml, orwell, physics, writing