PepperPerry
Current Teacher, Aspiring SWO
As a history major and a researching historian, I do use AI. Mostly for baseline research and kind of a "gateway" for finding more specific sources for my research.
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Are you using AI - and how?
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The billet description and billet accomplishment sections of FITREPs are noise. It's where you fall out on the relative grading scale of the RS and RO (at least on the MC side), as far as boards go. The verbiage of those RS/RO comments can influence things, if they fall in line with the math of their rating. FITREP writers get discounted by boards when their comments say he/she should be promoted ahead of their peers and put in command ASAP...but the math says the individual is on the back half of their bell curve.
All that to say, I agree with your post. 😆
Once I realized that the FITREP billet description and block 41 were most useful for getting AQDs and NOBCs assigned by PERS, I changed how I write and review FITREPs.
Can you please say more about this?
Suppose your Navy job is supporting ONI Farragut Technical Analysis Center with scientific and technical intelligence production. And you want to be assigned the NOBC 9660 which goes along with your duties. When you write your FITREP block 41, in one of the paragraphs, closely parrot the language in NOOCS volume 1 that is written in the description under NOBC 9660 SCI & TECH INTEL, assuming you truthfully did that type of work in an official capacity. That way, when your FITREP gets signed, when you send it up the chain to get First and Second Endorsements for your NOBC Assignment Request, the language in your FITREP will match or mirror the language in the NOOCS manual for the NOBC you want, and it makes PERS’ job easier to see that apples-to-apples comparison and approve your NOBC request smoothly without rejecting it or asking for more info. Ditto for an AQD you want that is based on work and not a specific school.
NOBCs and AQDs are not a silver bullet by any means, but when your packet is up for promotion, and your OSR shows 10+ NOBCs/AQDs assigned vs. the next guy or gal who has only a couple, it demonstrates to the promotion board that 1) you did a variety of work/schooling throughout your Navy career, 2) you care enough about squaring away your Navy record to get it documented, and 3) you know the NOBC/AQD assignment process so you probably are well versed in Navy admin processes to be able to lead/help others on Navy admin items.
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That was really helpful - thank you very much for posting such good detail. (No sarcasm whatsoever!)
In the Navy, Dory is called “CVN-81”
Yep, super useful for research or writing purposes. The latest versions of GPT will cite the sources of their information in a window ln the right hand side so you can follow up on anything that sounds a little off. Still really good for organizing ideas or asking if an idea makes sense from a writing perspective.
tylerwhyler
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Chatgpt is truly amazing for learning. It is the greatest tutor on Earth. It is SO good for entering a misconception or lapse in knowledge about a topic, and it will spit out a perfect ELI5 answer that explains it so elegantly that you can super easily do further research and make sure it actually gave you the correct info. Amazing for both my CS courses and even math courses.
An example of this today: I was using google but was having trouble finding the distinction between a stack frame and the stack segment (for a computer science course and I must've missed where it was explained in a prior week). Couldn't really find any good answers on stackoverflow or any other forums/articles. Chatgpt instantly gave me the difference between the 2 concepts and it made perfect sense and fit in with everything else I'd learned.
I don't like using it for anything else though really. I don't like the idea of becoming reliant on it for debugging code or anything like that. Also you can't really trust it's outputs for fact checking, a solid 10% of the time or so it's giving straight up false info (also it isn't trained on super up-to-date data).
I find human explanations are often not great for understanding complex topics. Chatgpt's language is very concise, simple, and without overly-esoteric wordage.
An example of this today: I was using google but was having trouble finding the distinction between a stack frame and the stack segment (for a computer science course and I must've missed where it was explained in a prior week). Couldn't really find any good answers on stackoverflow or any other forums/articles. Chatgpt instantly gave me the difference between the 2 concepts and it made perfect sense and fit in with everything else I'd learned.
I don't like using it for anything else though really. I don't like the idea of becoming reliant on it for debugging code or anything like that. Also you can't really trust it's outputs for fact checking, a solid 10% of the time or so it's giving straight up false info (also it isn't trained on super up-to-date data).
I find human explanations are often not great for understanding complex topics. Chatgpt's language is very concise, simple, and without overly-esoteric wordage.
Spekkio
He bowls overhand.
Chat GPT makes up fake sources, and this issue is well known.
If your teachers have only a sliver of awareness of youth culture, a simple lookup of your "sources" can lead you to academic integrity issues.
Spekkio
He bowls overhand.
Only when your lapse of knowledge conforms with broader society.
You know why people pay so much to go to Harvard, Yale, MIT, etc.? They're getting lectures from esteemed experts on leading edge theories that you won't find in an AI model.
While that's an extreme example, most of what you learn at a reputable university won't be found in AI models that are crowd sourcing social media.
tylerwhyler
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Those universities aren't really any more expensive than any other less esteemed private university and people go to those universities primarily for the prestige of putting it on the resume as well as the networking which is extremely valuable
90% of the education for any undergraduate degree at any university is going to be very much the same