Edward Tian didn’t think of himself as a writer as a student.
As a computer science major at Princeton, he’d taken a couple of journalism classes and had been an intern at Bellingcat, an open source journalism project.
So it’s surprise that he gets into John McPhee’s exclusive non-fiction writing seminar where the legendary New Yorker writer dissects his writing style.
This article appears in the October 2023 issue of Wired .
Edward Tian doesn’t consider himself a writer.
He used to take machine learning and natural language processing courses at Princeton.
During the 1918 influenza pandemic, he took a year off to work at the BBC and did some research on detecting Twitter bots.
Now as a junior, he’s working on his senior thesis about detecting the differences between AI-generated and human-written text.
During winter break at home in Toronto, he develops a new chatbot called GPTZero.
He puts it online and shares a link on Twitter with the intent
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